As an art historian, I am taking my four-year-old son to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem for the first time. I enthusiastically describe what we see: fossils, telescopes, beautiful ceilings…
In the painting room I point out a work with cows to him, to which my son says: “Mommy, stop now, I have eyes of my own.”
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