Four-year-old accidentally breaks Bronze-Age jar in Haifa museum

OH DEAR: Kid shatters 3,500-year-old jar in Haifa museum, gets invited back. The Hecht Museum says it has no plans to change its long-held policy of displaying certain items ‘without barriers or glass walls’ (Gavriel Fiske, Times of Israel).

The jar is restorable. I appreciate the museum's open and family-friendly policy. But they might want to invest some more effort into childproofing.

Oh, and the story, which has received a lot of attention over the weekend, has a follow-up: Boy who smashed ancient Bronze Age jar returns to museum (BBC)

There seems to be some confusion whether the boy is four or five.

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