Beijing's Palace Museum, the capital's most well-known tourist destination, has followed the likes of London's National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by enforcing a partial ban on the use of selfie sticks.
The decision comes soon after other Chinese museums in Nanjing, Wuhan and elsewhere moved to crack down on the device. In late January the Palace Museum (better known as the Forbidden City) also made the sage decision to ban the use of loudspeakers.
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The museum will not be enforcing a blanket ban across the entire 72-hectar site, however.
Visitors will still be free to selfie to their hearts' content in exhibition halls and wide-open areas. Staff will only move in to disarm and selfiers attempting to use monopods in "narrow" and "crowded" areas.
Palace Museum officials have explained that the ban was proposed in order to safeguard both the integrity of historical artefacts as well as the personal safety of the site's 70,000 daily visitors.
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