I can’t believe it. Your child breaks something … and the responsible is the one whose item was broken,. Not the child, not the parents, not the adults that took them to the museum, but the museum. Idiocracy has arrived, Where is president Camacho?

Sorry if I sound disrespectful but my first thought about this all is DON'T bring such young kids to museums. They are too young to understand History. Do it when they are old enough to understand and to get they must be careful with the items they'll see. Yes, the artifacts could have been protected better in case of accidents, but this was not an accident. It's not someone who tripped unwillingly, it was caused by a kid who shouldn't be there at all.

Apparently children are no longer taught to look with their eyes and not their hands. The museum is not responsible for the parent's poor parenting.

You break it you bought it. Time to stop blaming everyone else

You break it, you bought it. Time to stop blaming everyone else.

I don’t agree at all with commenters who say that kids don’t belong in museums. Yes they do. From as early as possible, expose them to culture, history, art! Parents should watch out for them, and are responsible for accidents. Museums have a responsibility too, as custodians of the art and artifacts. As an aside: I still don’t see how exactly this kid could get behind a glass wall. Am I missing something?

How, in any way, could it be anyone's fault except for the kid? Them being a kid doesn't excuse what they did, they still destroyed history.

Unpopular, unfair, impractical opinion, as I sit two rows up in an airplane from a petulant toddler (literally the type that just randomly angry shrieks at full volume): children shouldn't be brought in public. (Obviously I'm totally joking but holy s**t this little guy is loud).

If a 5-year old came into my home and broke something, I'd blame whomever was supposed to be watching him at the time.

As a parent to a five year old, I do believe this is mostly the parent's fault. I say mostly, as there is a problem with the fact that many museums do offer areas where you may interact with objects and that's very confusing to children. So sometimes, no matter how diligent the parents are at explaining that you don't touch, and watching over, curiosity takes over. Still I have three young kids, I've seen how enamored they get in a museum and I never let any of them out of my sight or reach for a second because I know that when a kid is excited about something they want to touch. I do think you should definitely take young kids to museums. They might not understand everything, but they do learn a lot. And ask many questions they would never think of in a different learning situation. Just prepare them for the experience.

If your child is not housebroke do not take them to the China shop. And the parents should be grown up enough to take the responsibility of their misbehaving children. They weren't there to go to the museum if they were really at a wedding reception

I don't blame the Museums, and parents should pay attention to their kids, definitely, but no surprise that peeps touch things they shouldn't (and not just kids). Maybe all precious items in museums/ Art Galleries should be behind security glass, even if it's not a regular incident. In London, we have The Household Cavalry (a union of the two most senior regiments in the British Army; The Life Guards and The Blues & Royals - Kings (Horse) Guards), and tourists (adults) grab the reins of their horses/touching them, while the guards are on Sentry Duty, and even touching the Guards (You can see them on YT, too) - even people aren't safe from grabby hands. So, yeah, touching what/who you shouldn't is a big thing, and I doubt that will change, so go for glass protection, museums (not so easy for the guards, though, sadly). It's not worth the loss.

I think they should give this to those people who repair broken items with gold (Kintsugi if im correct). as wiki states; highlighting cracks and repairs as events in the life of an object, rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage

Why does the article uses the term "a museum in the middle east" but avoids saying it is in Israel?

Just imagine a cat at that museum... perfect playground!! Sorry seriously if you ask me the museum need more security of the pieces and parents needs to teach their kid a little about going to a museum. The kid is not at fault.

So tired of parents who are just bad parents. Putting their desires ahead of their child and other patrons. You think for one moment that child wanted to be in a museum? But mom and/or dad WANTED to go to the museum, so who cares if the child hates the experience. Every time I travel I see parents dragging their infants to places having zero interest to the child, where the child acts up, and everyone else has to tolerate the results. Museum should sue the entitled parents for a million dollars.

If you bring a child (under 12) to a museum or a baby to a movie theater, you’re a piece of s**t. And if your reasoning is “we couldn’t find a sitter”. Well then, you don’t get to go to the museum/ movies. That’s how that works. You obviously can’t keep an eye on YOUR kids. It drives me batshit crazy when parents are at restaurants/ grocery stores and the kids are just running around screaming, bumping into me or my wife. It’s like the parent are like “YOU people watch them. I need a break”

Phew, lucky it wasn't new. 😁👍