Anomalies

A circle with a gap, the break falling between the three and four o'clock marks. No civilization's symbol-system contains it. The veterans' rule: the moment you see it begin to turn on its own, leave at once.

The LED guide lightbox above the exhibit turned its Chinese characters, one by one, into ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs—and the way they combined appears in no known version of ritual texts.

A layer of mist rises on the inner side of the glass display case—it does not slide down, cannot be photographed, yet the naked eye sees it. When an artifact begins to do what is physically impossible, it usually isn't broken.

In the special-exhibition hall after closing: the air conditioning dropped 0.7 degrees but the panel didn't change, the surveillance feed lagged 3 seconds, the guide text turned into ancient Egyptian symbols, and every exit vanished at once—behind the doorframe was a wall not yet dry.