Relics From the Deep And the Dawn of Man.

There are many ways to piece together the fragments of the past, to rescue them from burial or ruin or accident or decay, and give them a new sense and meaning. Maybe that's one of the jobs of museums: to reconstitute the remnants of a once thriving world. For example, on West 44th Street, through the back entrance of the building in which The New York Times was once produced, in a basement that contained printing presses, you will find a reconstituted space called Discovery Times Square Exposition, in which varied museological reconstitutions are also on display, with results ranging from the bewildering and banal to the suggestive and entertaining. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]