I too was left to wander around by my parents, I was about 12, (i'm a boy) ,in the Natural History Museum in the late 60's and was picked up and sexually abused...
need I say more...
On 26 Feb 2012, at 18:29, Wendy Earle wrote:
> My father has a postcard that I sent to my grandfather when I was about ten years old (early 60s) telling him how I had enjoyed a morning wandering around the British Museum on my own while my Dad went to work in his office about 10 minutes walk away. He had deposited me there as a safe and interesting place to wander. What has changed so this is no longer the case - apart from our attitudes to children, that is?
> Wendy Earle
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> There is a potentially large niche Twit-storm kicking off today. See https://twitter.com/#!/kidsinmuseums/status/173345416866308096 which refers to reports that Salford Museum barred two unaccompanied 13 year old girls from their premises for their own safety. I don't propose to comment upon that itself, but it raises an interesting question.
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> It is a given that all museums wish to increase their teenage visitor base. Today's teenagers are tomorrow's something else. So what is the minimum age that is rational and sensible to impose for insisting that a visitor be accompanied by an allegedly responsible adult? And, come to that, how many people of that age does one allow per allegedly responsible adult.
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