alot of grandparents are like this, that they think their grandchildren do no wrong and it is their job to spoil them. Their actual parents probably raise those kids to understand right or wrong, but grandma throws that out the window. I've seen plenty of grandmothers do this with their grandchildren and act as if it is everyone elses fault than their grandkids......
great for the kids to be able to sit in a cockpit, but no reason they should be allowed to touch whatever. Don't care how well behaved you say your grandkids are, they are quite capably of breaking something and thus why people are not allowed to touch things
I hate the "how did it last through the war" questions.
Back then it only needed to last through one mission, after which it was restored and maintained by trained full time members of a vast organization with almost absolute resource priority.
Now, it has to last for generations, likely maintained by a handful of experts who have the entire collection under their care. Maintenance is on a shoestring budget, and any replacement parts must be borrowed or remade especially for that one exhibit, assuming either of those is even possible.
Not touching things is so common in museums. Unless they have a dedicated space where you can handle the exhibits, so many things can be damaged just by people repeatedly touching them.
It's not just the oils on people's skin, either. Repeated contact with bare skin can cause friction damage over time. This is something you can see more clearly in places with statue rubbing traditions, where touching a statue is considered to bring luck or good fortune to people who touch the statue on their way past.
Also if the museum staff seem to be anxious because of a 3 and a 6 year old, there's probably been a lot more going on than them just touching the wing of the plane. They're generally used to getting child visitors, so the mere presence of children isn't going to throw them off.
Last year my family and I were in LA for Thanksgiving. There is a museum called the Petersen Automotive Museum, which houses many unique, historical, and very expensive cars, some that probably cost millions of dollars. It’s my husband’s favorite place as he is a car nut.
I noticed a very small child start touching some of the cars while his mom and grandma merely watched and took pictures. At one point the mom even lifted one of the velvet ropes to let him under to access one of the cars. The kid was leaning on the cars, smacking his hands on the sides, and even tried to get in the “Back to the Future” deLorean (they have famous movie and TV cars as well) She caught me staring at her once and half-assedly told her kid not to touch the car, but when she thought I had left she kept allowing him.
I got fed up and finally called a few staff members, who were very upset, especially when I told them that she lifted the rope to let him under. They kicked all of them out and I got a free parking pass, lol.
alot of grandparents are like this, that they think their grandchildren do no wrong and it is their job to spoil them. Their actual parents probably raise those kids to understand right or wrong, but grandma throws that out the window. I've seen plenty of grandmothers do this with their grandchildren and act as if it is everyone elses fault than their grandkids......
great for the kids to be able to sit in a cockpit, but no reason they should be allowed to touch whatever. Don't care how well behaved you say your grandkids are, they are quite capably of breaking something and thus why people are not allowed to touch things
Exactly
I hate the "how did it last through the war" questions.
Back then it only needed to last through one mission, after which it was restored and maintained by trained full time members of a vast organization with almost absolute resource priority.
Now, it has to last for generations, likely maintained by a handful of experts who have the entire collection under their care. Maintenance is on a shoestring budget, and any replacement parts must be borrowed or remade especially for that one exhibit, assuming either of those is even possible.
Not touching things is so common in museums. Unless they have a dedicated space where you can handle the exhibits, so many things can be damaged just by people repeatedly touching them.
It's not just the oils on people's skin, either. Repeated contact with bare skin can cause friction damage over time. This is something you can see more clearly in places with statue rubbing traditions, where touching a statue is considered to bring luck or good fortune to people who touch the statue on their way past.
Also if the museum staff seem to be anxious because of a 3 and a 6 year old, there's probably been a lot more going on than them just touching the wing of the plane. They're generally used to getting child visitors, so the mere presence of children isn't going to throw them off.
It’s funny how common those people are -museum worker
Last year my family and I were in LA for Thanksgiving. There is a museum called the Petersen Automotive Museum, which houses many unique, historical, and very expensive cars, some that probably cost millions of dollars. It’s my husband’s favorite place as he is a car nut.
I noticed a very small child start touching some of the cars while his mom and grandma merely watched and took pictures. At one point the mom even lifted one of the velvet ropes to let him under to access one of the cars. The kid was leaning on the cars, smacking his hands on the sides, and even tried to get in the “Back to the Future” deLorean (they have famous movie and TV cars as well) She caught me staring at her once and half-assedly told her kid not to touch the car, but when she thought I had left she kept allowing him.
I got fed up and finally called a few staff members, who were very upset, especially when I told them that she lifted the rope to let him under. They kicked all of them out and I got a free parking pass, lol.