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I saw some touch-screen displays labeling artwork in the Gallerie de'llAcademia in Venice that gave detailed background and history and explained the scene bein
by tgb 10y ago
I saw some touch-screen displays labeling artwork in the Gallerie de'llAcademia in Venice that gave detailed background and history and explained the scene being depicted. Thank god! I know nothing about art and embarrassingly little about history and like to go to museums to learn, but they usually suck at teaching! They just have the year the object was made and a label, usually, plus artist if known. No context. Nothing explaining why this piece is out front and not hiding in storage. You're expected to already know that.
And then when you do get audio tours or descriptions, they're often banal and just describe the object that you can already see ("The girl on the left looks onto the scene with a pained expression" so what?!).