First date in a museum?
Just a quick post - I heard on the radio yesterday that 9% of women said that a museum was the ideal place for a first date. What do people think about that? I'm not sure it would be my first choice to be honest!
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But, personally, I'm more interested in whether museums and galleries are good places to pull? I mean, in all my years of museum-going I haven't yet, but perhaps I haven't been visiting the right institutions? For example, a single, fairly good-looking man (tall, dark, own teeth, good shoes, etc) in his early thirties would be well in with me if I found him looking interested in the Soviet propaganda gallery at Tate Modern. Hint. And, of course, I am quite the catch! ;) (I *must* be getting desperate, using the blog as an online dating service!)
I was watching an interview of Meryl Streep about the MAMMA MIA! movie and she was asked which movie she remembers/likes most. She said that she relates the making of the movies she's been in with events/incidents in her family.
So, in a similar way, relating a museum visit to other aspects of one's social life (meeting/breaking with partners) can make a museum visit much more memorable. I say, we need a list of museums/galleries good for first date, breaking up, proposing, etc with an age-range as well. :-)
On picking up men in museums - surely you need to go about this systematically, using all the museological resources at your disposal. First of all you need to check out the visitor profile and make sure it conforms to the sort of person you want to attract. For instance, there's no point in hanging around in the costume galleries of the V&A, where the visitors are probably mostly female or gay - Bovington Tank Museum would have a higher number of men among its visitors. You will also need to consider earning capacity - what is the average income of the visitors? Jane Austen would not have ignored this point. Finally, you need to read papers on visitor orientation and circulation and work out where would be a good place to stand. I'm not making it sound very much fun, am I?