What not to do in a Museum

Little things that are best avoided in such a distinguished setting.

For an Art lover, museums are probably (next to architectural monuments) the most fascinating places in the world. In my particular case, I could spend days and days observing, admiring, or simply strolling under a silence that oozes History.

There are voices in museums that need to be heard.

As public places, museums have a series of regulations to protect their heritage and the excellent use of shared facilities for thousands of visitors. It is rare, nowadays, to go to a great museum and not find it with a healthy influx of users walking through its corridors and galleries.

Like everything in life, some rules are broken by certain characters because the intelligence and civility of human beings are inversely proportional to their stupidity.

Here are some of those stupidities I have seen in a museum.

It is like a paradox in itself. Museums are full of minor signs that explain the works of Art on display and help the visitor to know the historical and personal contexts that helped to create paintings or sculptures.

In general, people usually read one or the other of these signs. But some individuals have the virtue of never paying attention to one in particular: the one that forbids taking pictures.

It surprises the need for certain museum visitors to photograph everything around them. Moreover, they don’t even try to show something of themselves in the photos as proof that they were there (in an attempt to draw us into their logic).

Instead of enjoying the paintings live, these people appreciate the Art when they look at the photos saved on their cell phones, those they haven’t seen for months. It is in that fleeting moment when they remember that visit, although they would not be able to list any anecdotal feature of those paintings.

Another group of people shows symptoms of Spatio-temporal dissociation, as they mistake an art museum for one dedicated to deafness. That is why they suddenly raise…

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