"Jeremy" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
Hi Darryl,

Just to clarify, I am entirely in favour of
'unauthorized' tours. I was using the term simply to
distinguish them from the official tours produced by
museums themselves.

Jeremy.

Dear Jeremy and rest of the list,

Before getting into another discussion about a wonderful chaotic idea, I
would like to remind all in favour of unauthorized tours that such group
tours by real persons from the outside are forbidden in many museums
allover the world to prevent the worst (just imagine Nazis conducting
unauthorized tours in European former concentration camps and memorials)
and protect the right of work of their own interpreters. Have you
forgotten the conflicts with the museums missions?

Why always thinking that outsiders are better than the staff? Is the
staff in US museums really unable to do a good job? Have they lost their
inventive power, their creativity, their scientific impetus? Why always
being in favour of something totally anarchic? 

I am satisfied with ordinary work done well. For me as a longtime ICOM
member it is up to museums to care for the objects, inform, to
interprete, to combine education with entertainment. This can nowadays
only be done knowing the vested interests of the visitors. If they don'
t do it for any reasons, they loose the right to be called "museum".

Sorry to be that rigid again, but I do not esteem the background of
these proposals.

Best regards

Dr. Christian Müller-Straten

Verlag Dr. Christian Müller-Straten / MUSEUMS AGENTUR
Kunzweg 23, 81243 München, T. 089-839 690 43, Fax -44
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