to get museum rage?

[pigsinmud]

Yesterday we all went to the Natural History Museum. It was exceedingly busy and quite warm in there so perfect conditions for museum rage.

Cameras - I mean why do people have to go along taking picture after picture of the exhibits. They appear to be barely looking at them, just snapping the camera. In some areas where the lighting was low all you could see was flash, flash, flash.

Then there were the people who have to take up half the corridor trying to take a picture of dear old granny standing in front of a glass cabinet with a stuffed bear behind them. WHY? It was so crowded and yet they quite happily spent ages trying to compose the perfect photo whilst making loads of people wait.

Sometimes I think digital cameras are a bad thing as people quite happily snap away in there knowing they can take 567 photos instead of the old 24 or 36.

""This is why i never take DH to museums because i would end up removing a bone from the T-Rex to beat him senseless with as he takes the 500th shot of the same thing from a slightly different angle.""

OMG Stewie I laughed out loud that is SOOO my DH and OMG yes I want t o do that too

PS am I the only one whom have never heard of Museum rage?

I do get a bit frustrated at the people who never actually look up from the camera - if they want to see the museum through a screen in its entirety then they can watch the great documentary on bbc 2.

For me museum rage is being forced to walk a route through the gift shop - I know they need to raise revenue but with two alrady excited kids-I would find it a lot easier if they just frisked me for loose change on the way out then make me suffer the obsessive pleading for plastic junk that we will lose within 2 days of getting home.

actually I'm quite @ how few photos I took over Thursday and Friday - only 20!

I have no real interest in museums just not my "thing" - I love taking photos...........I go to museums for my children, and I love looking at photos of them having a great time afterwards. They love looking back at photos of places we've been as well and talking about them/

aaah but thats what phots are meant to be tocata for the memories, am sill scared of the people who are snap obsessive often alone) as opposed to snap happy like your good self, and I confess me!) - what do you do with 300 photos of a extinct elephants toenail?

I should have clarified - it was the obsessive photo taking that got me. I'm so old I thought cameras were not allowed in the NHM. I'm sure they weren't when I was little.

For us to get there at 10am it would have cost us £36 on the train instead of £13.70, so I was never going to arrive before 11am.

I expected it to be heaving.

I suppose the girl who took 20 photos of 20 rocks without looking up could have been doing research, but wouldn't she need to note down what she was taking photos of?

I found some people to be inconsiderate that was all. Lining up their whole family in front of an exhibit, stepping back across the corridor (blocking the whole thing) and then start faffing around getting people to move to a slightly different position etc... whilst people were having to wait to just carry on. By the end I ignored the fact people were taking photos and walked in front of them. A quick snap seems fine.

My dd2 was terrified of the T-rex. It took 5 minutes of persduading to let me pick her up and carry her past it.