Museums in Paris look to ban selfie sticks
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BAD news for selfie stick lovers. Museums in Paris are moving toward banning the popular devices because of the hazard they pose for crowds and artworks.
Inside the Palace of Versailles just outside the French capital, guards are telling visitors to put away the telescopic rods that allow users to take a picture of themselves from a distance.
A formal rule change will soon prohibit the poles outright.
The management of the Louvre is watching with increasing wariness the burgeoning use of the selfie sticks being waved around close to priceless paintings.
There’s no ban there yet, but “their use must respect the rules,” which include not pointing objects at the paintings or sculptures, a spokeswoman said.
The Pompidou Center, which houses modern art exhibitions, is “heading toward a ban but the decision has not yet been made,” its management said.
Museums in other parts of the world, including the Smithsonian in Washington and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, have already banned the sticks.
In Paris, a ban on them in museums would have a significant impact. The Louvre, Versailles, Pompidou Center and the Musee d’Orsay attract a combined 20 million visitors a year.
Safety is cited as the reason for the move against the sticks, but tourists are mixed on the ban.
Alyssa Pasqua, a visitor from Hawaii, said she uses a selfie stick but wouldn’t mind a ban in museums, as “I feel like sometimes these things are dangerous.”
But Ezad Asri from Malaysia said he needed the stick to take pictures of “stuff in the museums” to show people at home.
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