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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Ive been in plenty with no guards and lots of galleries with none.
And Ive never been in a museum with a guard or staff member in every room watching every piece.
There are certain standards of behavior expected or people. Not climbing on an art display is one that pretty much everyone can agree is a pretty basic standard of behavior in a public place.
And while children dont always behave as we expect people to, its the job of the parents to ensure they do. Its not the job of a guard to watch the closeness because the parents are negligent and dont watch them. To blame the place for not having guards because the parents failed to control the child is to say the parents dont have to make kids behave and we need guards everywhere.
If the kid went into an electronics store that had their centerpiece display a $20,000 88 TV and the kid ran up unsupervised and tried to climb it and ripped it from the wall would you blame the store for not mounting it in a way that it could be used as a jungle gym, or not having a guard every 5 feet to stop wild kids?
Its simple. Parents didnt watch kid, kid runs out of sight. Kid tried to use art display as a jungle gym. Unsupervised kid causes damages. Parents are responsible for kids actions.