No more selfies at the museum. Or, at least, curb this practice: this is what Simone Verde, director of the Uffizi, suggests after a tourist at the museum this morning damaged a painting by Antonio Domenico Gabbiani displayed in the rooms of the exhibition Florence and Europe. Arts of the Eighteenth Century at the Uffizi.
“Today a tourist wanting to make a meme in front of a painting, backing away in a pose like the prince of the Medici portrayed bumped the surface of the work,” Verde said. “The problem of visitors coming to museums to make memes or take selfies for social media is rampant: we will set very precise limits, preventing behavior that is not compatible with the sense of our institutions and respect for cultural heritage.”
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