I never understood the benefit of public museums, especially in the internet age.

If you want to look at some artifacts without touching it, you could google it and see it.

Also in public museums a lot of artifacts get damaged due to visitors behaviors.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep the old artifacts at storage facility and release a high quality pictures of it instead of putting it in a museum?

Is there is a benefit for public museums?

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    I am a huge fan of Salvador Dalí. While visiting Florida I went to the Dali museum. I saw paintings I never knew existed. Saw paintings I had seen in print and digitally multiple times, and they looked so different in person. Sometimes you cannot comprehend how large or how small a painting is unless you see it in person. Melting clocks & Gala’s bare breast/10 would visit again.