This Exhibit Is Just Divine!

I work as a gallery guide at a museum looking after the public, answering questions, and patrolling the galleries. We currently have an exhibition about Christianity in the Roman empire. In one room, they have lots of statues, crosses, and the like, low lighting with just the objects lit in the cases, and a soundtrack of Latin chanting that goes off randomly.

I’m patrolling the galleries and I enter this particular room to find a man standing in the centre, stock still, arms wide, mouth gaping, with a look of confusion and awe on his face.

Me: “Are you okay, sir?”

Guest: *In a nervous and overwhelmed voice* “I can hear… religion.”

I had to explain most gently that he wasn’t, in fact, hearing the voice of God but a CD. He seemed both relieved and disappointed in equal measure not to have been the recipient of a divine message.