tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post8261593428879784454..comments2024-03-28T03:48:25.254-07:00Comments on Grumpy Art Historian: Do not touch - how hard is that?Michael Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557727287816852329noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post-14489293136617023992013-08-11T13:32:15.001-07:002013-08-11T13:32:15.001-07:00Thank you for your comment. You're quite right...Thank you for your comment. You're quite right - many places, especially museums, are so scared of offending visitors that they fail to enforce basic standards that would be to everyone's benefit. Children who grow up to develop an interest in art will be resentful of the museums that allowed kids to handle and damage irreplaceable works of art.Michael Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557727287816852329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post-75118687525175991992013-08-10T09:30:16.213-07:002013-08-10T09:30:16.213-07:00I couldn´t agree more with what you´re saying. My ...I couldn´t agree more with what you´re saying. My experience is that people generally touch whatever is possible to touch. Alas, it is as if the child in a person never really leaves the body of the grown up. (I have a soon-to-be 4 year old daughter. Telling her NOT to touch something has been the same as an imperative to actually touch the item in question...)<br /><br />Yesterday in Stockholm outside the Nordiska Museet, children were chasing geese fledglings (i.e. young birds not yet able to fly) as if there was no tomorrow. When I went up to the parents of the geese hunters and very politely told them to tell their children NOT to chase the fledglings, I just received a laconic smile as an only reaction. And the kids kept stressing the poor birds. <br />Today at Millesgarden, also in Stockholm, a young boy kept taking gravel from one part of the famous Karl Milles garden and throwing it into one of the sculpture ponds. Eventually the father (who was on the phone) in question stopped him, but he moved loads of gravel, before being stopped. It was my angry glances that awoke the father, I dare say. Rules as No photos or Do not touch, are broken all the time. I believe a general lack of respect in society is to be blamed? Keep up the great blogging! My warmest regards, Nicklas Cederqvist, Stockholm, Sweden (www.antikmonologen.blogspot.se) Nicklas Cederqvisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14104427397875055106noreply@blogger.com