system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is it so important for museums today to have participatory museums exhibitions? Why have the tenet of visitor co-creation become so pervasive?

Some of it can be attributed to funding of course, the museums get money according to how many visitors they have and as the museums can be viewed as an alternative to amusement parks they try to become more like to other attractions to boost numbers. But as museums can enhance the number of visitors by other means than making the visitors participate (in some form or other) and have the same experiences at other places, why is it that to so any museums participatory design seems as the only viable strategy right now?
gpt
Because if a museum is just a place you go to look at things and read descriptions most museums don't offer much over wikipedia. Museums are trying to differentiate themselves by being the place you go to actually *interact with* the concepts they're dedicated to, not just to learn about them as you can just about anywhere on Earth with an internet connection.