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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4223949, member: 110350&quot;]Anything can happen, but I don&#039;t think unpaid museum interns have such easy access to get inside museum cases to steal (or substitute) coins or other artifacts! (My son has been an intern, both paid and unpaid, at a number of museums.)&nbsp; Also, the most obviously valuable coins at ROM and other museums tend to be the gold coins.&nbsp; Not so easy to substitute a common coin that vaguely resembles a gold coin in an exhibit, given how well-preserved and easily discernible even ancient gold coins usually are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, one of the more unusual things about the ROM that both of us noticed last weekend is that we didn&#039;t see a single guard anywhere, in any of the exhibit galleries.&nbsp; And, unlike, say, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they don&#039;t have alarms ringing every time someone gets too close to the art.&nbsp; I guess I shouldn&#039;t be surprised that I saw a number of children touching objects and even rubbing their fingers on them.&nbsp; Example: a kid putting his hands on the lion panel from Babylon.&nbsp; I admit that I sort of yelled at him and his father -- who was doing nothing to stop him -- and pointed out the &quot;do not touch&quot; symbol right in front of them!&nbsp; The father said &quot;OK, OK,&quot; and the two of them hurried away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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