--- description: Museums worry they could hurt other visitors or damage the art title: The Met and MoMA Just Banned Selfie-Sticks image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52eae2aa2a2de124/69877f62cd1bba6eb66f53a4/selfie-stick.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Metropolitan Museum of Art Banned Selfie Sticks  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Feb 15, 2015 5:25 PM CUT  A couple use a 'selfie stick' to take a photo overlooking the city skyline of central Seoul on Nov. 26, 2014. A couple use a 'selfie stick' to take a photo overlooking the city skyline of central Seoul on Nov. 26, 2014.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Feb 15, 2015 5:25 PM CUT The Metropolitan Museum of Art is banning selfie sticks. So, if you’re hoping to Instagram yourself standing in the Temple of Dendur_,_ you may be out of luck. The Met is one of many museums discouraging use of the selfie stick on the grounds that it could be dangerous to other visitors and to the artwork itself, although signs explicitly banning them have not yet been posted, the New York _Times_ [reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/museum-rules-talk-softly-and-carry-no-selfie-stick.html?smid=tw-share "undefined"). MOMA has also [banned the selfie stick](http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/06/to-ban-or-not-ban-selfie-sticks-put-museum-photo-policy-in-the-crosshairs "undefined"), along with the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Museum officials told the _Times_ they were concerned that waving selfie sticks around could hit other visitors or damage delicate artwork. Selfie sticks are still permitted at the Louvre in Paris as well as the Tate Modern and National Gallery in London — for now. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/museum-rules-talk-softly-and-carry-no-selfie-stick.html?smid=tw-share "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3710456/museum-self-stick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3710456/museum-self-stick/"},"headline":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Banned Selfie Sticks","datePublished":"2015-02-15T17:25:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:53.969Z","description":"Museums worry they could hurt other visitors or damage the art","url":"https://time.com/3710456/museum-self-stick/","keywords":["Tech","Newsfeed","Art","selfie","MoMA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52eae2aa2a2de124/69877f62cd1bba6eb66f53a4/selfie-stick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52eae2aa2a2de124/69877f62cd1bba6eb66f53a4/selfie-stick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SKOREA-LIFESTYLE-TECHNOLOGY-CRIME-SELFIE","caption":"SKOREA-LIFESTYLE-TECHNOLOGY-CRIME-SELFIE","creditText":"Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3710456/museum-self-stick/","name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Banned Selfie Sticks"}}]}] ```