Phil. items in London, Paris, & Berlin museums?

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Lorenz, as I have nothing to contribute, THANK YOU for showing these images!

Maurice, thanks too!

Originally Posted by Dom

our friend Lorenz Lasco "migueldiaz", in full action, at the Ethnographic Museum in Paris
two pictures, front to the show window on the Philippines (the two first)
no tricks ... I was a witness

Dom, mon ami extraordinaire! haha, thanks for those pics. And thanks for 'Part 2' which is a briefing about Arab weapons in your most beautiful house, including access to your nice library... and not to mention feasting on the best food and wine in Paris Indeed a man couldn't ask for more!

To all -- I'll post pics later (plus links to hundreds of pics) I took at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (a billion thanks, too, for the most kind gentleman who arranged the access, and he knows who he is), plus the pics in British Museum (mostly Indonesian), the Wallace Collection in London (mostly Arab and Indian, on top of the usual European arms), plus some South/Southeast Asia items in the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), and a lantaka I found in Windsor Castle (which has a documentation on when and where it was captured).

Thanks again to all.

[Rick]

This is one of the reasons I love this forum .
I'm so glad to see connections like this made between fellow members .

[Battara]

Now I know what you look like Lorenz............

[apolaki]

were you allowed to take pictures? Many museums i visited do not allow pictures. like in Taiwan when I visited the formosa aborigines museums...

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by Rick

This is one of the reasons I love this forum .
I'm so glad to see connections like this made between fellow members .

Amen!, Rick. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Battara

Now I know what you look like Lorenz............

Jose, I can reassure you that I'm more handsome in real life

Originally Posted by apolaki

were you allowed to take pictures? Many museums i visited do not allow pictures. like in Taiwan when I visited the formosa aborigines museums...

Apolaki, most of them, if not all as I recall, allow picture taking. But if the photos refer to items that are in storage, then a special permission has to be made.

Regarding the matter, I'm yet to arrange with Pitt Rivers Museum the posting of some of the pics I took at their storage facility (sample below). For instance there's this ancient-looking twist core kris (see below) in which more insights about it will surface for sure, once examined by the experts in this forum ...

PS - On photo taking in museums, I got an insider tip about it -- a curator in a local (Cebu) museum told me that the sole reason why they don't allow it is so that the flow of people amongst the various items on display will be faster! In fact the only museum I recall that don't allow picture taking of items on display is Museo del Ejercito in Toledo, Spain.