Really? You mean to tell me that if in a real museum someone mocks dinosaur skeletons or a planetarium risks being kicked out? There is nothing that says museum visitors have to have a certain disposition in order to attend. If they were breaking things, or shouting, and yelling, by all means, but simply criticizing what they saw...that's ridiculous.
Who said they were "simply criticizing" what they saw?
They admitted themselves that they were "making fun and laughing". I stated that "could be deemed" inappropriate.
It would depend on the manner in which they were doing so now wouldn't it?
It really sounds to me like they went there for the expressed purpose of making a scene and creating a disturbance to see what would happen.
Since neither of us were there and we only have a brief description of what happened I am not going to be so quick as to defend these guys without having more information.
In a real National Art Museum in DC, I got a warning for laughing at and mocking paint splatter “modern art.” It was the most pitiful “art” in the country right there on display in DC! The adults (I was in college) were all standing in front of these inane paintings quietly studying them...It was too much. I was told to shut up or leave.
Really! It is not considered polite to loudly mock work in a Museum...viewed like a troll on the internet.
Well, PZ Meyers is the blaspheming idiot who desecrated the eucharist as a public atheist stunt. So maybe he was doing more than just "criticizing".