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Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie StickBy WILLIAM GRIMES February 17, 2015自拍神器在许多博物馆遭禁WILLIAM GRIMES 2015年02月17日In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks together and pulled down an elusive prize, a bunch of bananas hanging just out of arm’s reach.在一项著名的实验室试验中，一个名叫苏丹(Sultan)的黑猩猩把两根连锁棍连到一起，拉下了一个不易得到的奖品——它的手够不到的一串香蕉。Nearly a century later, eager tourists have conducted their own version of the experiment. Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, occasionally referred to as “the wand of narcissism,” they can now reach for flattering CinemaScope selfies wherever they go.将近一个世纪后，热切的游客们也在进行这样的实验。在配备了被称为自拍杆（又称“自恋神器”）的相机延长器之后，现在不管走到哪儿，他们都能拍到惹人喜爱的宽屏自拍照。Art museums have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their sticks with abandon. Now they are taking action. One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks, tripods and monopods), yet another example of how controlling overcrowding has become part of the museum mission.艺术博物馆紧张地关注这一发展，担心用户们肆意挥舞自拍棒时会对藏品或其他游客造成伤害。现在他们采取了行动。美国的博物馆一个接一个发布禁令，禁止在博物馆内使用自拍杆（之前已遭禁止的物品包括伞、背包、三脚架和单脚架），这再次表明，控制过度拥挤已经成为博物馆的任务之一。The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington prohibited the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been studying the matter for some time, has just decided that it, too, will forbid selfie sticks. (New signs will be posted soon.)本月，华盛顿的赫什霍恩博物馆(Hirshhorn Museum)和雕塑公园(Sculpture Garden)禁止使用自拍杆，休斯顿的美术馆(Museum of Fine Arts)也计划发布禁令。在纽约的大都会艺术博物馆已研究这个问题一段时间了，刚做出决定将禁止使用自拍杆（很快将设立新的提示标牌）。“From now on, you will be asked quietly to put it away,” said SreeSreenivasan, the chief digital officer at the Met. “It’s one thing to take a picture at arm’s length, but when it is three times arm’