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Originally Posted by estcrh
David, the Met has many dubious descriptions also, I am willing to bet that both institutions have not even tried very hard to find help or solve this problem. The images that they have of the items held in their collections are valuable resources, I am pointing out that they can not be trusted as far as descriptions go, many people assume that these famous museums are infallible but they are really not doing a very good job in making the items they hold available to the public.
Many people can not travel to these museums and the online images are the only way they have to gain access to what is in them, other people base their visits to these museums on what they know in advance that they will see, it is in their best interest to figure out how to speed up the process, there are many ways to do this such as with students via an intern program.
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Well said Estcrh but how embarrassing for the RA, lets hope that these shortcomings are bought to their attention and that they take the necessary action to correct these errors which as Ariel points out in some instances so stupid, it just does not make sense.
Miguel