2/5 Steve K. 2 years ago on Google
Top
military
museum,
unrivaled
collection.
Unfortunately
it
is
curatorially
hobbled
for
non-Francophone
audience.
Museum
offers
little
English.
That's
astounding
for
a
major
museum
with
resources
to
get
it
right.
English
is
inconsistent
and
usually
entirely
absent.
Sometimes
it
is
present
on
high-level,
larger
placards.
Sometimes
for
such
high-level
placards,
French
is
in
a
big
typeface,
and
English,
German,
and
Spanish
are
squashed
in
tiny,
unreadable
typefaces.
Most
captions
throughout
the
museum
are
only
French.
Time
and
again
I
hoped
to
learn
about
amazing
artifacts,
but
descriptions
were
not
translated.
Such
a
museum
can
and
should
do
better.
I
hope
curators
embrace
well-established
multilingual
techniques
on
a
consistent,
museum-wide
basis.
During
my
visit,
two
thirds
of
security
personnel/room
minders
were
talking
on
their
phones,
doing
something
else
on
their
phones,
or
sleeping.
The
latter
two
activities
do
not
detract
from
my
visit.
However
the
four
guards
who
were
talking
on
their
phones
most
definitely
detracted
from
my
visit
as
well
as
the
experiences
of
other
visitors
present
in
their
vicinity.
Highly
unprofessional,
not
just
once
or
twice
but
with
consistency.
If
museum
Management
ever
walked
through
the
galleries,
they
would
observe
the
same.
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