How to attract people to museums

You Tube video ^

[Vanders9]

The Rijksmuseum in Holland had an idea: Let's bring the art to the people and then, hopefully, they will come to see more - at the museum.

[Vanders9]

It was certainly well planned. http://www.youtube.com/embed/a6W2ZMpsxhg?feature=player_embedded

[airplaneguy]

Here’s another Mall “commercial” for British Airways in Moscow. Well done Id say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyE9KqIeTg8

[MosesKnows]

to the people

I enjoy seeing videos of this nature. They are of course entertaining but what gets my attention is the people. If the title did not tell me, I might not know it took place in a shopping mall in Moscow, Russia or somewhere else in the world. It constantly makes me wonder why we don't get along better than we do. If you start by observing the children, you will readily see we are all the same.

[FreedomPoster]

Will have to look that up. We were there for the Marxist Mexican artists recently.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Will have to look that up. We were there for the Marxist Mexican artists recently.

That is one of the few weekends we skipped. We have zero interest in Marxist Mexicans. They also have a free weekend for residents of Fulton County if you happen to live there. It's the first weekend of the month, same as BOA's.

[FreedomPoster]

It was fun making snarky but educational comments aloud.

[1010RD]

Silly and wasteful. This won’t bring anyone into a museum. Museums are dead and have been losing attendance for years. Think for a moment. We just watched it on YouTube.

I can search for nearly any museum piece and see it on the Internet for a fraction of a US penny. Why waste the time driving, pay for parking (ticketing?), and an expensive museum whose staff despise you and all you stand for?

Museums need to die and quickly or at least get off the public dole. Eliminate the corporate income tax and all museum subsidies by government and let the rich run them.

[Vanders9]

Sure you can see (most) any museum piece on the internet - but how would you know they were there in the first place? You go to an art gallery to see something, and something else catches your eye, something that you would, in normal circumstance, never come into contact with.

You might as well say you need never visit anywhere ever again because you can see it all on TV.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Vanders9.

Another way to bring people into art museums is to quit giving them so much blank wall space — they can experience that at any shopping mall.

[GOPJ]

Wonderful!!!

[1010RD]

but how would you know they were there in the first place?

Internet search. Museums are dying and but for government subsidy would have been dead long ago. Most things in them are unknown to the hoi polloi.

[Daffynition]

Wut's wrongwitchu! Ain't chu got no class?

[Daffynition]

Say Clevis, when did you get internet access?

[Vanders9]

But if youve never been exposed to it, how would you know what to look for?

[1010RD]

How the museum elite view the rest of America.

[1010RD]

I found it by accident while researching ancient and medieval warfare. You learn by being taught or pursuing your interests. It's both presumptuous and wrong to believe that museums educate or are necessary in the 21st century.

They're the elites’ way of subsidizing their lifestyle. If you enjoy them so much, pay for them yourself.

[Ditter]

I visited the Rijkmuseum 50 years ago I can’t remember very much. LOL!

I would love to see a production like this one, even better would to be in costume and be a part of a production like this! :)

[Daffynition]

How technology has changed how we live...

[Vanders9]

And how do you acquire new interests?

I think its even more presumptions and wrong to believe that museums don't educate.

[Vanders9]

But technology advances dont neccesarily result in cultural and social advances. Electronic devices giving virtual access to a virtual world with virtual intelligence and virtual morality. Yep, thats really working out well.