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Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-down-the-stick dept.

An anonymous reader shares these articles about museums banning the dreaded selfie stick. "Selfie sticks, the logical 'extension' of an already irksome activity, were recently banned in Premier League soccer stadiums. Now museums around the world are starting to do the same over worries of accidental damage to artwork. The Smithsonian barred their use effective last week as a 'preventative measure to protect visitors and museum objects,' especially on crowded days. Meanwhile, a formal ban is pending at Versailles palace and Centre Pompidou in France, and visitors are now being told to stow their sticks by guards at the Louvre. Both Pompidou and the Louvre will continue to allow regular photography and selfies."

3 of 183 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sure about the Louvre? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep, it's just flash. If you use flash, guards will tell you to not-do-that-again. Otherwise everyone walks around photographing.

  2. Rightly so... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Informative
    The purpose of a museum is to showcase the exhibits of the museum, not the visitors of the museum.

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  3. Re:Good. by mean+pun · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which, incidentally, is why taking a selfie with it exactly misses the point.

    Perhaps for you, but selfies are proof you've been somewhere. That's why I call them evidence photos. For the people in question collecting this evidence may have been the point. Just like the souvenirs that tourists and pilgrims have been taking home for thousands of years.