Please Do Not Sit

This chair, part of an exhibition at the Danish Design Centre, signifies to me everything that is wrong with museums.  I mean, it’s a chair: to understand it you have to sit in it.  Otherwise, what’s the point.

Please Do Not Sit

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John Boylan's picture
John Boylan on October 20, 2009 - 14:28 Permalink

Yes, it’s a bit like when I saw an exhibit of medieval torture devices at the Royal Scottish Museum. I said to myself, “If I don’t get to see some actual limbs being crushed, I don’t think I’m learning anything here”.

Peter Rukavina's picture
Peter Rukavina on October 20, 2009 - 14:58 Permalink

Exactly.