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?

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Have you ever been to Disney World, at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, and had your photo taken next to a real shrunken human head at age 5?

    I have. I still have the photo around somewhere too.

    Creepy shit yo, and I’m almost 1000% certain it was the real deal. You better bet your ass nobody was about to touch that thing.

    At Disney World no less…