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I was recently at the Pompidou in Paris, which reminded me of when I first  
flunked a museum, which was there.  I was in the modern art gallery  when it 
first opened, walking across a room and I stepped on some burlap  randomly 
arranged on the floor.  Aghast, I said, "Oh my God, I stepped on  some art."  Well, 
as it turned out, it was just burlap and not some  abstract art using burlap. 
 I should have known.
 
Another occasion when someone else flunked a museum was when I was director  
of a children's museum.  We had a puppet theater, which at the time was  
presenting Peter and the Wolf.  The 5-year old son of the gift shop manager  was 
sitting in the front row.  At the point when the wolf was ready to eat  Peter, 
the boy leaped from his seat and attacked the wolf puppet.  After  the 
pandemonium died down, we eased him out of the theater.  I hope we  didn't devastate 
his taste for theater for the rest of his life.
 
I would enjoy hearing some other stories of when people flunked a  museum.
 
Bob Russell
 
Robert L.  Russell, Ph.D.
Science Advisor, Self-Reliance Foundation
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