Regarding the article in the last week’s Gazette and Herald on Wiltshire Museum in Devizes and the crop circle exhibition.
I am shocked that an organisation that calls itself a museum is prepared to allow an exhibition which is factually incorrect and biased towards the absurd premise that “aliens make crop circles” when it is the work of people.
A museum should be trying to educate people based on facts. What next, an exhibition on why the Easter Bunny is real?
The makers of circles have been filmed so many times and even been prosecuted for making complex circles. Is there any doubt as to who is doing this? Is the museum wanting to create its own Loch Ness Monster to boost local tourism and trade?
It’s shocking and those responsible for allowing this in should take a hard look at themselves and try and represent truth, not the views and religious belief systems of wild-eyed cuckoos and tin foil hat wearers. Celebrate the art of artists who make circles, that is a worthy cause. Why do you think the artists have held off doing any in Wiltshire this year? Perhaps it’s a protest against museums that can’t tell the truth? Celebrate art and artists and don’t promote idiots.
Matthew Williams, via email.
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