September 16, 2023

Take this as a rant, if you will, but its intent is to be an open letter to the directors and curators of small museums that forbid visitors to take photos. I’m a fan of small museums; there should be many more of them. Often, they are the way in which we learn about events, movements, people whose stories would be lost, or lost in a larger setting. At best, they explain in a local and personal way how things developed in a particular place or time, and how the events of the larger world…