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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I've also experienced the National Gallery guards being aggressive and over-extending their authority toward children.  I have not experienced similar attitude from guards at other museums, even other art museums like the Freer-Sackler, so I'm not sure what the cause is.  Are they trained to act that way?  Or maybe it's just the culture there to be overly protective?

I've seen it with my kids and with strangers' kids too.  They get very tense about children getting close to the art, even when the children make no move to touch the art.  They also get mad when children do anything but stand on the underground moving walkway between the two gallery wings.

I don't understand it.[/quote]

I've been taking my son here since he was a wee smunch. I have found some guards to be perhaps overly hypervigilent when it comes to small kids and art (though I don't blame them), but we bounch on the moving walkway EVERY TIME we visit becaue it is bouncy and wonderful, and have never gotten the stink eye from employees at the museum. Snooty twentysomthings, sure, but I don't care what THEY think. But maybe they just aren't going to argue with a mid-thirties lady bouncing on the walkway. [/quote]

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