I just gave a tour to someone wearing google glasses and I’m in North Dakota.  We allow photos, so I wasn’t worried about our policy, but if you’re trying to protect a copyright or anything it’s going to get challenging.

 

Dani Stuckle

 

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". . .  providing areas for lots of picture-opportunities and creating other photo-free areas."

 

The point is, it doesn't really matter what a museum declares their photography policies to be. Everyone is carrying small hidden low-light silent high-resolution cameras and before long their eyeglasses will be those same cameras. In the old days visitors conspicuously carried five-pound Nikons around their necks and even ASA 400 required a giveaway flash — easy to spot and prevent. Not so any more -- it's a losing battle, and museums are going to have to embrace change and find its benefits, rather than continuing to fail at fighting it. 

 

 

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Art Center College of Design

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From: Lisa Adam <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Museum of South Texas History
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Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:48 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] FW: [MUSEUM-L] Interesting perspective on "outdated" museums

 

 

Regarding picture taking, here is some interesting science that has come out on the issue.  The results are much more subtle than the headline implies, but thought-provoking, regardless. 

 

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/no-pictures-please-taking-photos-may-impede-memory-of-museum-tour.html

But in regard to the comment that the bother of picture-taking is “almost entirely generational”—so what?  If it’s bothersome, it’s bothersome, whether that’s based on generation, gender, temperament, or other variations in our visitors, even including their moods.  The parallelism in the phrasing of “a question of being ahead of the curve or not, a question of who you want to appeal to” subtly implies that appeal to older visitors/visitors who don’t want mass photo-ops means a museum is behind the curve.       

I think there are ways museums can provide for both impulses, providing areas for lots of picture-opportunities and creating other photo-free areas.  And certainly, as most folks in this discussion seem to agree, establishing flash-free and/or photo-prohibitive areas based on loan stipulations. 

Lisa

Lisa Kay Adam

Curator of Collections and Registrar

Museum of South Texas History (MOSTHistory)

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