The MFA in Boston has a bronze of Lincoln which says please touch.  Of
course the details are obscured, and the smoothed edges are shiny golden
now.  I'd like to see a marble like that because people think stone is
undamageable by mere touching.

Vincent
At 02:25 PM 9/27/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Someone posted a wonderful strategy on this list a year or so ago, to argue
>against touching exhibits. Could that poster, or someone else familiar with
>it, post the specific wording of the display.
>
>I believe their institution posted a sign, half protected in some way, that
>encouraging touching of the sign, but not the exhibits. The degradation of
>the exposed half of the sign was a vivid demonstraion of the cumulative
>effect of touching.
>
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