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    1 year ago

    Kind of relevant but a few years ago the British Museum created a virtual tour for anyone to use.

    Here is a kind of funny quote from National Geographic’s article on it

    In 1774, the British Museum—founded just 21 years earlier as the world’s first national public museum—had a problem, according to its then-director Matthew Maty. Too many of its 10,000 annual visitors were “persons of mean and low degree.” Not only did Maty disapprove of “the lower kind of people” at the British Museum, but he complained that they also tended to be rude to the tour guides.

    Imagine how horrified Maty would be if he knew that millions of visitors in 2015 can now stroll the storied galleries of his museum clad only in their skivvies, with a sloppy slice of pizza in one hand and a smartphone in the other.

    If you want to try out the virtual tour yourself you can find out how here by the way.