4-Jähriger zerschlägt versehentlich Gefäß aus der Bronzezeit im Museum
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/style/israel-haifa-museum-boy-breaks-artifact-hnk-intl/index.html
4-Jähriger zerschlägt versehentlich Gefäß aus der Bronzezeit im Museum
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/28/style/israel-haifa-museum-boy-breaks-artifact-hnk-intl/index.html
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Fuck I would panic. I’m glad the museum seems to be relatively calm and understanding about it.
This is why I think those leashes for children should be mandatory.
Protect your assets, don’t blame others for your negligence
The museum made a statement that they leave many attractions open to the public without protection around them. They made clear that it would be restored as best as possible and they gave no blame to the family and offered a private tour to them after the fact.
The museum admitted it was fully aware it could’ve put protections around the piece but chose not to, because it didn’t want to create that environment and accepted the risk.
The family accepted guilt and knows the artifact won’t be same.
It’s a jar, it’s also about a family with a young child.
Adults destroy more than children ever will.
Goodness gracious
That’s a paddlin’
Parent’s reaction…
Ohhh *no*.
I know they don’t blame the family but I can’t believe they offered them a private tour after their child broke an artifact. Kind of weird to award that behavior.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. This jar was destroyed the moment they placed it in an accessible spot.
“Whelp… had a good run, I guess”
I wonder how many jars have been broken by children throughout history. Probably millions. It’s funny to think about that one jar making it through thousands of years of history just to meet such a mundane fate.
It’s a bit sad, but it’s also kind of cute to think about modern day children interacting with artifacts in the exact same way as ancient children.
At least it wasn’t new
Funnily enough that accident is now also part of the history of that piece. 🙂
if he just waited til farum azula hed get a better talisman
I was at the maritime museum in Madrid. Little kid pushed over an old glass covered binnacle. I thought all shit would break loose, but museum staff were less concerned about it than the parents.
Kids. I wonder if whomever originally created this expected this thing to last 3,500 years.
It’s like your phone somehow surviving for thousands of years into the future.
Completely the museum’s fault. Why would a jar like that be somewhere where a child could get to it?
Well, some of the blame is also the parents that let the kid do it.
“Hey, let’s take our 4 yr old, who will never remember or enjoy it, to a museum where he can break some really expensive stuff.” “OK, because we really shouldn’t stop doing what we want to do just because we had kids right?”. Lousy parents FFS.
Children can go awry in a heart beat. The museum should have protected the display better.
Wow, the museum seems cool about it eh ?
That’s interesting considering i just saw news of another kid who broke something in a museum and now the parents owe them 130k.
I visited this museum – it is very nice place.
Also in Israel people are very laid back about children. All floor in another museum in Haifa is made specially for children. So sometimes they are very loud and climb all other things and parent do not stop them.
What’s will all the automatic kid hate??
This kid didn’t run around yelling, screaming, he wated to know what was inside and grabbed the jar.
Even if his parent was right next to him, grabbing something takes, what, a split second?
That doesn’t mean he’s badly behaved or parented either! He’s four. He’s got a super curious, little human brain, and when he sees something, grabbing it is the first instinct. His parents could be the best parents in the world, and this could happen. *Because he is four!*
And I say that as a consciously child free history geek!
If something is super valuable, protect it. The museum chose not to. The museum chose *not to even put up signs asking not to touch the exhibits!* The museum is chill about it.
Let it go and leave the kid and the parents alone.
Probably a replica and the museum doesn’t want to admit, for obvious reasons.
Higher profile museums will have identical replicas made of certain items displayed. Which I always thought was a little wack.
So I’ve never seen this particular jar, but I assume my reaction would be
Oh cool, old jar.
Oh cool, this is the jar that some kid broke.
Oh cool, looks like an old thing, all put together and such.
Imagining the parents’ perspective is crazy, but imagine the artist that MADE the jar…
they had no idea some little kid would destroy their jar in 3,500 years
Don’t see the problem. Things from the bronze age are meant to collapse.
What a lame ass apology, after the museum has been so gracious. They could at least give a donation.
And that’s why I keep my toddlers far, far away from anything breakable and/or expensive.
Other kids my be trusted unsupervised around priceless artifacts but my little ones have the fine motor skills of an inflatable whacky man and the impulse control of a staffy on mdma.
If you haven’t read the article you should. What an amazing museum!
I’m wondering now if some clay jars that have been dug up in pieces… were actually broken thousands of years ago by 4 year olds of the time? 🤔
“Gru! Stop breaking the pots!”
That pot traveled through time 3,500 years, after some guy just made it. So a 4 year old could meet its fate….
So if you think about it, it’s a deeply personal connection, that that little kid has and the maker of that pot, 3,500 years apart.
They should dedicate a plaque to the kid for the display when they repair it, he’s part of its history now.
I’m sure 4-year-olds knocked over jars during the Bronze Age, too.
Suprised that museums haven’t switched to only displaying accurate replicas at this point.
That’s like the third best age.
That jar lasted a lot longer than it had any right to. Those backwards Bronze Agers didn’t know about capitalism or planned obsolescence. Imagine selling products that won’t need replacing for four, five thousand years! The shareholders would burn us alive!
The child’s name? Link
Stupid museum shouldn’t put things where people can break them.