As if it weren’t bad enough having people lined up to take pictures of their favorite pictures in museums, now it appears that hordes of visitors are lining up with selfie-sticks to take pictures of themselves in front of their favorite pictures. That’s apparently the view behind several NYC museums banning the hold-your-phone-beyond-arms’-length devices…and several others are considering it, according to travel-industry news site Skift. MORE

Museu Arqueológico do Carmo, Lisbon
Housed in a church destroyed in a 1755 earthquake, the museum holds pieces of many civilizations







It won’t interfere with what I do. Selfie sticks are the tools of amateurs!