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I visited a few days ago while on business in London with a few hours to burn. There is now an airport-style security channel with staff who open and scan your
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
I visited a few days ago while on business in London with a few hours
to burn.
There is now an airport-style security channel with staff who open and
scan your bags.
For 30 years I've been a casual visitor to the British Museum and have
never seen this. It used to be lunch-time detour when I was at UCL to
walk through the ground floor simply as a shortcut from Russell
Square.
I am not sure what their threat model is; maybe vandalism as protest,
but as a security anecdote it's amazing to see all of this security
theatre while all along it was the staff (and probably those in high
positions) who were sneaking out millions of pounds of treasure.
Through the lens of security thinking I now see it as axiomatic that
the consequences for the misdeeds of the privileged and powerful
always fall upon the innocent and vulnerable.
This needs incorporating into the root of any formal account of
security thinking - because we always seem to be wasting our time
scrutinising and inconveniencing the wrong people.
- sammyteee 3y agoThe implementation of airport-level security for visitors is quite astonishing. As you say, it's unfortunate that we are bearing the brunt for what appears to be transgressions by the establishment's personnel.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoYou can walk out of the building with no checks, the security is on the way in
- lwhi 3y agoWhat's all this talk of staff stealing? If true, where's the proof?
- nonrandomstring 3y agoNow the subject of a Metropolitan police investigation [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67144607 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67144607
- lwhi 3y agoThx!
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoPeople have been complaining about security at the British Museum since the white tents went up in 2015 as a space todo bag searches (due to increase in terrorism and vandalism) Isn’t the airport style security an attempt to make that process easier and quicker than the manual bag search? https://medium.com/@thepublicrealm.uk/the-british-museums-very-ugly-welcome-736f905d7cef https://medium.com/@thepublicrealm.uk/the-british-museums-ve...
- darkclouds 3y ago[dead]
- unfunco 3y agoIt could be related to a lot of recent Just Stop Oil protests, where orange paint / powder is thrown on artworks in museums, on pitches and playing surfaces at live sports events, and many other imaginative examples. - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-sto... - https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/just-stop-oil-uk-museums-gluing-protests-1234633474/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/just-stop-oil-uk-museu...