I had never traveled anywhere until I was a sophomore in college and I spent a semester abroad in Rome. […] One of the first places that I went that was in Rome was a church where there was the statue of Moses by Michelangelo, and at the time you could put money in a box and actually touch it. And the thought of touching something that Michelangelo himself had touched was so beyond thrilling to me […] and that began my love of touching art. […]

I later wanted to pass on my love of both art and travel to my nieces and nephews and godchildren, so when my oldest godson was ten, I took him to London where we went to the National Museum and saw the Rosetta Stone. I waited until the guards weren’t looking and we had a nice touch of the Rosetta stone, which at the time was not in a glass box. I have subsequently gone back and perhaps because of my bad behavior it’s now in a glass box. […]

For those for you that have the same love that I do you will be very happy to know that perhaps my all time favorite statue is the Winged victory of Samothrace, also in the Louvre, and that is out there for anyone that cares to touch, take a picture with. I have touched it many, many times and have brought many people to touch it. […]

This belongs in the Museum of Bad Museum Behavior

Exhibited by Shannon O’Hara

Transcript edited by Sarah Crawford