Imagine that you are a 12-year-old child, you go to a museum to see an exhibition of paintings that you probably do not even care too much about, you stumble by mistake and rely on a work to the point of making a hole. Surely the scare does not take away in your life.
This is what happened this weekend in Taiwan, as you can see in the video that I leave below. Therefore, when you go to a museum, watch out!
The terrible moment, recorded by the museum's cameras
The boy walked quietly, without paying too much attention to anything in particular, with a drink in his hand, when he stumbled upon a platform that sought to separate visitors from the painting. He tried not to fall until he leaned on the painting and broke it.
The work in question, of title flowers, is an 17th century oil which was painted by the Italian artist Paolo Porpora. It is a work valued at 1.5 million dollars, so if the child's gesture in the video is "and now what do I do", imagine how he should have stayed to know the value of the painting.
As we read in The Guardian, those responsible will not ask the family to pay for the restoration of the work because it is part of a private collection that is insured. In fact, Sun Chi-Hsuan, the organizer of the exhibition, said that the boy was very nervous and that he was not to blame, that the work actually takes time in poor condition and that when it comes to restore it the first thing they go To do is reinforce the structure.
To what I say: bravo for him. The child, as I said at the beginning, only suffers an accident. He does it unintentionally. And seeing that he was very nervous, blaming or seeking responsibilities would not be forgiven in life. The painting is assured, so I think they have said that "quiet, if total, it was already fatal ... also, we are going to get it fixed and there are more important things to repair (before that piece of hole that you have done ) "to remove iron from the matter and try to downplay it, precisely so that the child does not torture himself with it.
Watch out!
Perhaps you are still wondering why I tell you all this, why in a baby and children blog we talked about an accident of a kid who loads such an expensive painting, if there was no way to avoid it. No matter how careful you are, it is not a mischief nor is it a child you have to control. He is 12 years old and old enough not to have to walk telling him how to walk or where to do it all the time.
Well, I'm here writing about it so you can see what my reaction has been, because it has been Miriam, my wife, who has told me while reading the mobile: "Uff, a child has loaded a painting in a museum", and I thought right away "It is that people do not care with children". Without knowing what the story was about, I already had it in my head: a child running through a museum, which should be under the control or guardianship of his parents, who, being unguarded, ends up breaking a painting. Irresponsible!
But no, when I saw the video, I realized that those who had to have been more careful were those of the museum. It is worth that the picture measures 2 meters but, really, the safety measures of such a work are a rope and a wooden platform? Because it has happened to a child, but it could have happened perfectly to an adult, or an older person. In fact, an older person with less reflexes might even have supported the entire body, and I don't want to imagine the destruction.
So in conclusion I extract the following (three lessons that I take today):
- My lack of trust in parents has made me think that people are not careful with their children, or that children are so disrespectful that they can do something like that (and I will have to review my beliefs, so as not to make judgments of value so quickly).
- In this case it was those of the museum who probably should have had more 'beware!' when it comes to securing their works: has a child broken a painting, is that in the museum they are not careful with the works? (Ok, that's not it either, but I say it so that you realize that sometimes, with children, not everything is as it seems).
- Not all adults also react the same. They could have told him that "if you don't look where you are going", "this youth of today who has no respect for anything", "young people without interest would not have to come to museums" and instead told him that I was calm, that they would fix it, it was a very old picture and in poor condition.
And you, What did you think when reading the headline?
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