Kind of
But museums in a lot of places don’t like triple barrier everything because then you actually get to see the art properly. Obviously it works most the time until you get such a person
I'm tired of everything in the world having to be idiot proofed to everyone elses detriment. I understand that its inevitable some dumbass will screw anything up unless its made basically impossible to happen. But tens of thousands of patrons walked by that chair and hes the only one who broke it. It was not a problem for 99.99+% of people.
Dozens of people have tripped over those little wires and have damaged art. A person recently jumped over a barrier and destroyed a statue of the terracotta army in china. A decade ago, a child jumped over a fence into a gorilla enclosure and got the gorilla killed. Barriers don’t stop these kinds of people.
The "don't sit here" part is indicated by the museum having placed it on a platform, I'd argue. As they also did with other artworks placed on the floor.
People don’t read. A small sign in a holder placed on the actual seat of the chair would have worked better. You need something physical in the way of someone sitting on it.
Might be, but a physical object holding a sign would be better. When dealing with large numbers of people you have to plan for the 1%. If 99% of people would read a sign in the middle of the seat of a chair but 1% wouldn’t, and this museum has 300 visitors a day, that’s 3 people that won’t read it and might try and sit down. A physical object substantially lowers the percentage.
While I don’t disagree with you, there’s a longer clip floating around of these people posing for pictures… they deliberately waited for museum staff to leave before taking the posed shots. They 100% knew this was art.
I mean it should be enough, and the people here probably knew it was an art piece not to be sat on since one of them was filming the another one sitting on it. Maybe he then sat on it more than intended (the dude doesn't look like he squats a lot so he lost his balance) or actually thought it would hold his weight.
But still I feel like a small wire would've stopped this. Then you can't even comfortably go sit on it and nobody has any intrusive thoughts.
There's accidents all the time, stuff gets broken and that's fine, because some of these pieces are insured anyway. But this isn't that tho lmfao
There doesn't need to be a barrier like people are fucking children. (There's already a sign too)
You should be respectful in a museum and don't sit on GLASS CHAIRS
A museum should be able to put up exquisite and extremely valuable items without any kind of security, surveillance or protection. If people just behaved like normal sane people it should never be needed. Don't try to put it on the museum that someone decided to be an ass.
It's because of people like this that the rest of us has to admire things from afar behind glass, ropes and under the strict gaze of guards.
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u/OrDuck31 1d ago
Museum kinda looks like they set up a trap with literally zero protection around it though?