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Re: What our visitors REALLY think of us...
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"Ellen B. Cutler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:04:31 -0700
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Thank you Gerald.  For a minute there I thought all the educators had become
as humorless as the curators...

Ellen Cutler
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Prokopowicz <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: What our visitors REALLY think of us...


> For those who are tone-deaf to comedy, the subject of Ms. Poundstone's
piece
> is children, not museums.
>
> In an amusing way, she makes the observation that no matter how hard we
try
> (and she recognizes how hard museums try), kids will be kids; some will
like
> the velvet rope more than the exhibit, just as they like the empty box
> better than the expensive birthday gift that came in it.  When I first
took
> my daughter to the Boston Aquarium, the fish were of no interest to her,
but
> she was fascinated by the air conditioning duct covers near the floor.
>
> Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Ph.D.
> The Lincoln Museum (which has no velvet ropes)
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>
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