New arms museulogic nucleus in Portugal

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Hola 'Nando,

Muito Obrigado for the museum's pictures, seems you have joined Michael's ranks of muito interesting posts! Kahnjar's were also very interesting.

Please enlighten me. What's the purpose behind forbidding picture-taking sans flash..? Do these Museums have books depicting their collections, and wish to sell them instead? A picture sans flash doesn't affect either paintings nor objects. The main reason for me visiting any museum would be precisely to take pictures of items I consider interesting, or to buy a photo-book of their collection.

I own a couple books from the Spanish Museo del Ejercito, so the prohibition to take pictures there would serve an actual purpose: stimulating the sale of their books. Otherwise, I don't see any logic behind such prohibition.

Any other reason that you guys may think of?

Best

Manolo

Originally Posted by fernando

Hi Marc, muchas gracias .
Yes, it is open to general public.
If and when you intend to go there, i will point you the route; it is in a very central place in Cascais, anyway.
Salud.
Fernando

... and remember, you can take pictures, with or without flash; which is not the case in the Military Museum. There is allways someone watching you; either a young soldier or more commonly one of these sinister ugly women .

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