My student card expires today. Ever since I got back in Bergen I've been making the most of the various discount goodies that won't be available to me from tomorrow on
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I had another look at your older entry with all the pictures. I envy you for having a local museum with things that lovely in them. (Not that we don't have Museums in Dallas -- some of them very interesting indeed. But it's not like any of them are close...)
(I suspect the low lighting is for the same reason flash photography tends to be forbidden around museum pieces: Exposure to too much light fades things, and they want to conserve these items.)
I'm very lucky to have such a fine museum right here in my neighbourhood - and it has one of the biggest collections of Medieval church art in Europe (due to the collection having been started in the Victorian Age when the Middle Ages and Renaissance was very in), which is quite a bonus to me! (The remaining collections of non-medieval or Renaissance artifacts is laughably small, but that's beside the point).
I suspect the low lighting is for the same reason flash photography tends to be forbidden around museum pieces: Exposure to too much light fades things, and they want to conserve these items.
You might be onto something, but the fact that the only two exhibitions with normal lighting is the newest one (the Egyptology room) and the storage room exhibition (where there's a placard apologetically stating that if only there'd been the right kind of lighting these items would have looked more interesting) makes me think that it's possibly just the work of some ill-informed exhibit designer.
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(I suspect the low lighting is for the same reason flash photography tends to be forbidden around museum pieces: Exposure to too much light fades things, and they want to conserve these items.)
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I suspect the low lighting is for the same reason flash photography tends to be forbidden around museum pieces: Exposure to too much light fades things, and they want to conserve these items.
You might be onto something, but the fact that the only two exhibitions with normal lighting is the newest one (the Egyptology room) and the storage room exhibition (where there's a placard apologetically stating that if only there'd been the right kind of lighting these items would have looked more interesting) makes me think that it's possibly just the work of some ill-informed exhibit designer.
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