Perhaps we can meet with everyone's concerns about visitor behavior
very simply. Honestly post at the door in large letters what the
standards of behavior are in our institutions and what the penalties
for transgressing them are (ranging from imprisonment to pity). Then
simply see if anyone comes in. That will be the measure of how
surely we have gauged the temper of the communities we serve as
agents of social reproduction. Because the behavior code in the
museum is as much a part of what we are doing and what we are trying
to inculcate as is the story we are trying to tell with the
artifacts--not an extra; in important ways it is the infrastructure
to the message's superstructure.

Pat Galloway
MS Dept of Archives and History