We were at this exhibition recently at the London Docklands Museum and I received a questionnaire about it by e mail.
" Fashion City Step into an East End tailor’s and a Carnaby Street boutique at the height of the Swinging Sixties, where every stitch tells a unique story."
It was interesting and well presented. They covered all the clothing trades in the East End and on to the beginnings of stores like M and S, Chelsea Girl etc as well as the high end designers.
On the questionnaire they had the usual crap about " what sex do you identify as " so I chose Other and added my comment in there. What shocked me though was "did this exhibition help me think differently about Jewish people?" .
I am not really sure what I think about this. I mean I would not expect to see that kind of question about an exhibition about eg the Windrush generation. Am I being too sensitive here? I mean what answers do they expect - the choices were a tick box exercise which ranged from "I strongly agree" to" I strongly disagree." What will they do with the answers to this if eg there is a 73% of people said it made them see Jewish people differently? It is meaningless surely?
The Museum is also carrying an update on their site of extra security measures being taken in light of the current Middle Eastern situation. It reminded me of when we visited Vienna and there was an armed guard at the Jewish Museum.