This topic has still got my husband insensed by the women's behaviour. He is head of security at one of the museums in Oxford and wanted to share this particular tale with you of something that happened recently. They have a very beautiful, simple chair in one of the collections. It dates from the mid 17th Century and has a woven rush seat. All over the chair are signs saying 'do not sit' and 'please don't touch'. They were watching the collections from the CCTV room and saw a woman pick up her young child and put the child onto the chair to sit down. By the time they had rushed one of the security guards down (and it's not their job to prevent touching that's what the docents do) the seat was broken through and the chair damaged. The woman could not or would not accept a part in what had happened. The whole of the seat had to be removed and replaced from scratch. Hubby says that this unneccesary restoration took that particular department over 70 hours of work - put in a minimum cost of £15 an hour for the labour alone the damage was over £1,000. I think the biggest story of this type comes from 2006 and the rival musuem in Cambrige to hubbys. The Fitzwilliam. If any of you missed the story then there is a link to the BBC website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4708494.stm The guy was charged with criminal damage but I can't find out if he was prosecuted or convicted and hubby can't find out from the musuem's grapevine. L
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