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Last year I was giving a presentation at a Children's Museum (a dry ice and liquid nitrogen show) when the fire alarm was pulled. The whole place was evacuated and we waited 20 minutes for the fire marshal to give the all clear. After the show I explored the museum and found the alarm that was pulled - it was on a pole right at the entrance of a fire station exhibit. I don't know who "flunked" the museum - the kid or the person that put a fire alarm right next to a fire station exhibit.
Chad Johnson
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From: Robert Russell <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Flunking a Museum
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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.
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