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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]Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Kids are kids, and they sometimes make mistakes. I took my daughter to an art museum when she was 7. She loves art. She wanted to take a picture of a cool collage and got out her camera (it was permitted). She couldn't get all the collage in the picture and started backing up. I saw the danger right away, but she bumped into a pedestal with a vase on it. She wasn't being a brat, and I had my eye on her the whole goddammed time. Fortunately, I managed to get there in time to prevent a fall. Disaster averted.
She was properly behaving her self. But she was SEVEN and didn't think of what was behind her.
Museums/galleries need to take proper precautions for breakables. Maybe don't put something that fragile where people can walk up to it and touch it? Maybe mount it in a more secure way?
There is no way the insurance company collects on this one, I think.