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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