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It’s always fun to navigate an exhibition with your ears. At the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels, you can do this using proximity-based headphones. Approach a case full of 19th century saxophones—which, it turns out, are named for the Belgian inventor Adolphe Sax—and hear them honk. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s epic touring exhibition David Bowie Is used similar technology, delivering an immersive soundtrack as if transmitted directly from ground control.
