Les aventures de Tintin - The Red Sea Sharks

I am a fan on Tintin. When I was a child I saw inumerous times the cartoons on TV before going to bed. In Portugal the series was in french with subtitles and I was especially fascinated by the episode "Destination moon", which in Portugal was "Objectif Lune". As I never had access to the books as a child, as an adult I started to buy them and read them in french. While in Scotland I enjoyed reading the "Black Island", in which Tintin is after criminals in England and then in Scotland, where he discovers their laird on the Black Island. I also enjoyed very much reading "Tintin in Tibet", where he goes to the Himalayas in search of his friend Chang Chong-Chen, who disappeared in a plane crash, and finds Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. When an exhibition about the life and work of Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, Tintin's creator came to Lisbon, I made sure I went to see it. It was also a great opportunity to introduce my small son to Tintin and Milou and to their incredible adventures, full of cultural references (even if some controversial ones too). However, it was an open eye for a mum with her toddler to experience how non-inclusive museums can be. The exhibition was less than prepared to receive young children, there were warnings all the time from the stewards to not touch this and to not touch that, even if the artefacts were all highly protected and inside glass windows. I felt it was unfair and very sad. Museums should be inclusive, fiendly and welcome all ages so people are inspired to come back and to grow their interest and curiosity, and become usual museum visitors. I am much more sentitive to restrictive type of museums these days, and I have found that the UK is much better prepared to receive children than most museums in Europe (our last experience was the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam - not too bad, but Portugal is terrible). In the UK, the museums are mostly iterative and kids are usually invited to touch, feel, experience and above all, to learn in happiness and not controlled or told off by moody invigilators.