I went last month and noticed that big chunk missing on the corner, right where everyone snaps their photos. The guide said some guy literally knocked it off during a dispute back in the 1800s, and they never fixed it. Do museums leave damage like that on purpose to show history is messy, or is repair just too risky?
I paid 28 bucks at the Capitoline Museums for that audio guide device and I'm still salty about it three weeks later. The thing gave me a 20 minute lecture about a statue of a hand while I stood there thinking about lunch, and half the other exhibits just had a little beep sound with no narration at all. I figured the headphones would at least work properly but the volume kept cutting in and out every time I moved to a new room. My buddy who went with me just used his phone to look up the museum's free website and honestly he got more out of it than I did. We were there for maybe two hours and I spent half that fiddling with the settings and trying to find the right numbers on the floor. Next time I'm either skipping the audio guide entirely or just reading the little wall plaques which were actually more useful. Has anyone else dropped cash on these museum gadgets and felt totally ripped off, or am I just unlucky with the ones I pick?
Last month at the Field Museum in Chicago I noticed the gift shop sells a $12 plastic T. rex that's anatomically wrong, yet the actual skeleton upstairs has been corrected by science 3 times. Has anyone else found the shop displays more outdated than the exhibits they're attached to?
I was so sure that was fake when my tour guide said it. Like yeah sure, a body from 1903 still has nails after all that time. Then I got close to the case and saw them. It's wild what mummification actually preserves. Has anyone else seen something at a museum that made you call BS at first but was totally real?