Museum Employee Tells Non-White Students To “Shut Your Mouths” And Furor Ensues
The last time I visited the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, a warder told a friend and me to “Quiet Down!” even though we were speaking at normal volume. So I’m sympathetic to the students in this story: A teacher at a French secondary school has sparked debate about the treatment of school groups in French museums after a warder at the Musée d’Orsay told her party of 93 pupils to “shut their mouths†during a visit to the museum. The French Minister of Culture, Audrey
Azoulay, has also been drawn into the row, and requested that a report be drawn up on the incident and its aftermath.
