Whaling museum, not whale museum
Museu da Baleia da Madeira的点评
点评:Half of the museum is dedicated to ‘whaling’ with celebration of those times glorifying the bravery, and displaying photos of, the whalers. This is SO wrong! The museum is out of time and needs to seriously reflect how WRONG whaling was in the past and still is in the present. As a cetacean advocate, I find the museum an anachronism that needs to come up to date with current times and current thinking. Yes, dedicate a small corner of the museum to the past i.e. whaling with a strong message as to how wrong it was but dedicate the rest to the wonderful variety of cetaceans Madeira is fortunate to have off its coast. The best exhibit is the current temporary one showing photos of cetaceans seen off the Madeiran coast. More of this please and consign whaling to the bin where it rightfully belongs.
翻译:博物馆一半的面积都用来展示“捕鲸”,歌颂那个时代的英勇,并展示捕鲸者的照片。这简直大错特错!这座博物馆已经脱离时代,需要认真反思捕鲸在过去和现在是多么错误。作为一名鲸类动物保护者,我认为这座博物馆与时代脱节,需要与时俱进,与时俱进。没错,博物馆应该留出一小块区域来展示过去,也就是捕鲸的历史,并强烈强调它的错误之处,但其余部分应该用来展示马德拉岛沿岸丰富多彩的鲸类动物。目前最好的展览是临时展,展出了在马德拉岛沿岸拍摄到的鲸类照片。请多举办这样的展览,把捕鲸彻底清除,让它回到它应有的位置。