D.C. Museum Eliminates Guided Tours For Small Fry

The National Gallery of Art is suspending its guided tours for groups of schoolchildren, and “reevaluating” its entire educational focus. The move won’t save a lot of money, since the guided tours were given by volunteer docents, but museum officials had noted a sharp downturn in the number of students participating in the guided tours, and an uptick in the number of children wandering the museum on their own.