Who needs objects?

Not the Neues Museum. Forget the 'Museum Without Walls', this is the museum with only walls (for now). As G2 reported on Monday,  35,000 visitors came to see the restored shell of the museum over 3 days. Similar in some ways to what the curator of Temple Newsam (who spoke to us County House Collections lot last week) described in the early years of the building being open to the public, with very little inside after the house sales dispersed the collection. I suppose in this instance, there might be a potent sense of re-occupation and of reclaiming, but it's a poetic image. I suppose the real question is, are you still visiting a museum if there's nothing in it?