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To: The Curator, The Victoria and Albert Museum
Overturn the ban on photography and sketching at the Victoria and Albert Museum
.jpe)
Consider overturning the ban on photography and sketching at the Museum.
Why is this important?
Continuing to enforce this ban will impact on the very essence of Museums, to teach and to educate.
In the Museums' own words, the new exhibition 'A world of fragile parts' aims to “question the relationship between the copy and the original in a society that privileges authenticity”. How is this possible without document?
There is no issue of copyright, nor of (usually) entrance fee. The Museum claims that unclogging the gangways will lead to more visitors. I argue it will lead to less, and destroy part of the soul of the Museum, for after all, to quote Le Corbusier. “Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” Please continue to allow the people to learn in these ways.
In the Museums' own words, the new exhibition 'A world of fragile parts' aims to “question the relationship between the copy and the original in a society that privileges authenticity”. How is this possible without document?
There is no issue of copyright, nor of (usually) entrance fee. The Museum claims that unclogging the gangways will lead to more visitors. I argue it will lead to less, and destroy part of the soul of the Museum, for after all, to quote Le Corbusier. “Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” Please continue to allow the people to learn in these ways.
