katy-l-wood:saintartemis:anotherconservator: This display in Ashmolean Museum shows how touching art
katy-l-wood:saintartemis:anotherconservator: This display in Ashmolean Museum shows how touching artwork affects material. This is why museum staff get really upset when visitors touch stuff Please don’t touch the collection objects! This is such a great way to do it, though! Don’t just tell people not to touch, show them exactly why they can’t. And have things that you CAN touch! This here is an example but I’m also thinking of the museum I went to that had a little slab next to the artwork that replicated some parts of it so you could touch it and actually feel what this type of paint or whatever feels likeMany people are very tactile, don’t just tell them don’t touch but redirect their need to touch things toward something they can touch -- source link