8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
12:08 p.m.
On 08/08/2012 02:14 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
My experience (in the USA) with many large, well-funded museums is
that they tend to treat visitors and researchers as an inconvenience.
Only once did I actually manage to get a museum employee to engage in a
dialog about something I was researching (The National Corp.
Atomichron), that was at the Smithsonian, and he was great. But that
was, unfortunately, the exception.
Note that I am NOT talking about CHM here, as I've never been there.
(I'm dying to go, but it's on the other side of a pretty big continent!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
In all
honesty, have you every actually ever *talked* with museum
staff about this? You will find out that most museums are quite happy
Yes, I have. I have asked to see artefacts in storage. I have asked if
they could retrieve soemthing so I could see it (and then I would pay a
future visit when it was available). Never got anywhere.
Look, unless you have visitied computer museums in the UK and asked such
questiosn then IMHO yuo don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Museumes elsewhere might have very differnet policies. I am talking
_only_ about the museums I have visited and/or sent (postal or
electronic) mail to, asking for information on particular exhibits. I
have never receieved anything useful.