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…why museums in Germany don’t sell t-shirts.

Whispers: Because all the visitors are so bloody old

Down at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, they’ve showing “Sculpture by painters” – an exhibition of 145 significant works by Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Markus Lüpertz, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tàpies und Cy Twombly, juxtaposing paintings and sculpture.


Choice, as ever.


But they don’t sell t-shirts at the museum shop.


I would have just loved Miro’s “Femme devant le Soleil” (for some considerable time in fact, judging by her tan) in XL

Not a chance.


Which is fairly obvious, when you look at who was there on a Friday afternoon.


Oldies. Mostly wearing jackets and ties. And Sensible Shoes.


Not your average T-shirt wearers.


And I wasn’t the youngest person there, either



Mrs jb was, though.

I also know why you can’t get a Senior Discount anywhere in Germany.


There’s just too many of us. It appears that we’re the difference between profit and loss



Since becoming officially Chronically Gifted in August, I’ve managed to scrape together all of €2.50 in rebated admissions.


It’s not that I don’t ask. 

Public transport, bookshops, restaurants, supermarkets – Ms jb refuses to appear in public with me

Especially now that I start every sentence with “Of course, now that I’m a pensioner…”…


So they’d be silly to