Last month to the Wellcome Collection, nipped in again to the excellent Brains exhibition. Camden Council sent in their Health & Safety advisor after several visitors fainted when viewing films of ECT treatment and a brain operation – both of which I’d avoided earlier being of a very sensitive nature of course.
On the advice of the Health & Safety person, wooden blinkers were placed on either side of the small screens showing these exhibits, which, of course, became crowd magnets, despite or because of warning postcards given out at the entrance. Visitor numbers increased by 25% apparently.