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The incident happened last week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, which for decades has displayed a group of Qing dynasty Chinese vases on a window sill. A hapless visitor tripped on his shoelace, tumbled down a flight of stairs and crashed into the vases, smashing them into smithereens.
Ref. https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060130/od_nm/vases_dc

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How do you ever get over destroying something that valuable!? If it was my museum, I would ban him for life, and fire the person in charge of displaying the vases. Priceless vases should not be displayed in such a careless fashion. On a window sill? Thats reckless in my opinion, art should be displayed in a manner that people can see it, but that it is protected from harm.

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What? Less accessible, were visitors allowed to handle these vases? They were on a windowsill for crying out loud. A simple sheet of glass in front of the vases would have saved everything. While the man who broke the vases should make some reparations, the museum also needs to take some of the blame for not securing them. What would have happened if someone tried to steal them.

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Ok whoever was in charge of the vases is totally fired by now, how can a respected museum be so careless with such valuable vases