I'd like to see this take off in museums, in order to prevent the incessant strobe lighting caused by people using flash photography to take a poorly-lit photo

I'd like to see this take off in museums, in order to prevent the incessant strobe lighting caused by people using flash photography to take a poorly-lit photo of a painting for which there exists a magnificent, professionally-photographed reproduction in the gift shop. Yes, most museums ban flash photography (and there's some debate over whether flash photography will actually damage a painting). But go visit the (US) National Gallery some time and stand in front of Titian's "Feast of the Gods" or Leonardo's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci (the only Leonardo portrait in North America). You'll see one flash after another, even though (in the latter case) there's a sign asking people not to. I've even seen, at another museum, a block cut of Munch's "The Scream" that had a cloth cover over it (that you could lift) to protect the work from light. No problem. People just lifted up the cloth and snapped a flash photo. As for the rest of the paintings at the NG: Well, people can just go crazy. It's like visiting Harold Edgerton's laboratory. I was so floored by this last time I visited, I asked the people at the desk about it. They told me that with few exceptions, you can flash away at anything you like as long as you're not using a tripod. You're free, in other words, to give your fellow museum goers a seizure; you just can't make money at it.