NO BRASS RAIL
ART GALLERY PROBLEMS KEEPING OFF THE CROWD. A suggestion that a brass rail should be erected in front of pictures at the Sarjeant Art Gallery was recently considered by the Gallery Committee, but nothing is to be done at present, ou account of the expense involved. The problem of damage to exhibits through handling and touching by careless or thoughtless people is, however, a serious one, and those who have seen the effects state that several pictures have been damaged. For many people the first instinct is to touch the surface of unglazed pictures, and the result is that the colouring is occasionally spoilt. Only recently a youngster was caught picking flakes off an oil painting, while his mother’s baek was turned. Another ihfant making sticky imprints on the glass front of a large picture had to be abruptly interrupted, while the glass fronts of two other pictures were broken by adults who leaned against them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 6
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159NO BRASS RAIL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 6
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