[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m no Art Historian...but WHY was this ‘chair’ OUT THERE for anyone to SIT ON in the FIRST PLACE? Yikes!

Never, EVER trust ‘The General Public.’ Never. EVER!

[rlmorel]

I don't blame the tourist as much as I blame the museum.

That said, I do remember this story about a four year old boy who tipped the unprotected jar over to see what was inside:

LINK: Boy accidentally destroys 3,500-year-old artifact in Israeli museum (The jar in question predates the time of Kings David and Solomon)

I could just imagine Dad: "Heheheheh...Billy, what do you think? Any candy in there?"

And before he could react, the kid just pulled the jar over! (I don't know what Dad really said...)

But the museum put it out without protections.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TRUE! A few days ago some idiot destroyed some of the Terracotta statues in China, and a child destroyed an ancient vase.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/terracotta-warriors-china-damage-tourist-mausoleum-qin-shi-huang-1234744034/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ancient-bronze-age-jar-child-broken-haifa-israel-rcna168561