Acropolis Museum [OC]
Athens. For some reason, this room forbade photography. Just this room. Why?! I took this shot from the balcony of a different section..
Athens. For some reason, this room forbade photography. Just this room. Why?! I took this shot from the balcony of a different section..
But yet you took the picture anyways.
I'm a rebel
I'd assume to try to curb duplicates/copies from being made
I'm just guessing, but maybe it was selfie/portrait accidents in the past, where people came to close to the exhibits, toppling them over.
After taking a better look: everything seems firmly secured here. I still think preventing portraits is a possible explanation: No accidental touching of the objects when people hold their face too close, or grabbing of objects when they stumble during posing.
Pictures, just like food, get a lot more interesting when there's just a little bit of crime involved
Hell yeah
That place is great! Much better than what they used to have back in the day. I was rather impressed when I visited a few years ago not knowing this had been built since my last visit.
Flash damage?
I'd understand that if it was something painted. But it was unpainted marble statues. Also no cell phones or video?
Maybe to stop it damaging any trace amounts of paint left on the statues?
It only takes one tiktok dance to get phones banned from a museum.