As a museum professional and a parent, I would expect to see nudity in an art museum, but that's just me. I think warning school groups is fair (so the teacher can pre-teach), but I wouldn't worry about warning individual visitors.

Funny story, last year I was in Paris and saw L'Origine du monde. As I was trying to read the sign (my French is pretty bad) a school group came up behind me.  I would guess they were about 6 or 7 years old, and their guide was pointing and explaining the painting to them.  Not even a giggle from them, but I was very embarrassed being trapped very close to that painting for a long time surrounded by little kids nodding complacently at the tour guide's description of the female anatomy.  Stupid Puritan American Culture.  😒

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> On May 28, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Ilana <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello to the museum collective,
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> Our gallery, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, will be opening our new exhibition, Picasso: Creatures and Creativity on July 3rd. The exhibition features a series of 15 lithographs of two nude women, in both realist and abstract forms. From an educational standpoint they serve to show Picasso's evolution in the artistic process but how to we showcase this with school and camp groups? Can we even show them at all? We have only booked one field trip so far, and in this case, I brought up the nudity and the camp director will come preview the exhibit. Also, aside from making my staff aware that some guests may be offended by the content and how we prepare for that, is there anything else we need to do? We will mention the content to guests that arrive with children, but we don't necessarily want to bring it up with every guest. I appreciate your input. 
> 
> Ilana Short
> Manager of Visitor Services and Education
> Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
> Las Vegas, NV
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