Hi Tim, Totally tangential, but you asked a tempting and timely question - considering it's summertime (in the northern hemisphere at least): Yes, there are swimming museums: I found one reference to a Swimming Museum in Beijing and, of course, the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (http://www.ishof.org/). [Sorry, folks, but this discussion of breastfeeding has gone far enough. Perhaps it's time to recognize breastfeeding was and remains an essential act of childrearing. If someone finds bare breasts offensive, odds are against their visiting an art museum where bare breasts have been a favored subject of artists - both male and female - for centuries! Thankfully, most in the homo sapiens line have stood up straight and don't drag their knuckles on the ground anymore . . .] Sincerely, Jay Heuman Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator @ Joslyn Art Museum Soon to be relocating for different employment . . . I'll remain on Museum-L. -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Atherton Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:52 am To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Breastfeeding I'm not talking the south of France or the Italian Riviera - Quite honestly, I think most people would be hard put to accuse the English of wild, hot blooded exhibitionist behaviour... :-) But I grew up in an English seaside town and my parents still live there. Topless bathing and sunbathing is quite normal on most of the beaches these days (and going back 30 or so years, always was to some extent) - not everyone does it, but no-one seems to bat an eye these days - and all shapes and sizes seem happy to partake. And it's not unusual to come across beaches designated for nude bathing - but it's not as if they are separated by barbed wire. By contrast, coming to north America, I was and still am amused by what appears to me as still something of an outsider as a strange and somewhat repressive prudishness with regard to beaches and bathing... now, isn't there a museum of the bathing costume somewhere...? :-) tim