A reader sent me the email below letting me know that the kiosk I spotted at the ASCC museums last week has now been removed!
Dear Mark,
Thanks for the post about the kiosk in ASCC. Last week I contacted an executive at the Amiri Diwan and forwarded the picture of the kiosk that you posted on the blog. He was surprised by the grotesqueness of the stand and instantly contacted the person in charge of the project. From what I hear, the stand has now been removed (thank god).
Thank you for keeping us aware.
Best Regards
19 replies on “The Kiosk at the Museum is Gone!”
unfortunately so many things inside the museum not working as damage from the visitors.
one lady who is in charge in the Islamic museum she told me one of the visitors by car key scratch touchscreen and has been damaged and they should replace it and cost a lot of money !!
imagine less than one month and that happens, how will be the museum after one year ?!!
april fools? 😛
TBH, the ascc seems to have the same style of management as the fairgrounds in mishref; has a ghetto idea of family friendly atmosphere.
Basically an insult to the facility that can run much better activities.
the power of citizen journalists in motion.
We need an update! Where do we go to buy corn dogs now!?!
the place has been open for less than a month,
the need time to adapt to the community, and hopefully things will get fixed.
Also keep in mind, that with a hopefully continuous shift in local cultural community infrastructure health educational and other major projects, we also need to prepare for the long process of the population to treat things properly and public ettiquete work ethics and so on. what i mean is, the population is slowly and imo unefficiently learning, you can’t skip work, littering is unacceptable, traffic violations will be followed and you and your kids are not the owners of everything neither do you get a pass for being Kuwaiti.
hopefully the govt. will realize the importance and focus some efforts into this as people local and from abroad will not want to spend time with a population that is not friendly, clean or polite, neither will they respect a country or its projects when the locals won’t respect the simplest rules.
Couldn’t have put it better!
I know someone who works there …..and the stories I hear!!!! seriously, people act like they were raised by animals. This is why we can’t have nice things … Setting up shitty kiosks where they don’t belong, people touching and breaking things, letting their children run around like animals … so sad!
omg spill the details ! we ( I ) want to know more.
Well done Mark, thanks for pointing that out!
yeah, leaps and bounds dude, you did it.
i keep hearing some stuff are broken, why they don’t install surveillance cameras for the whole museum? no one will dare to touch.
I don’t think anything is being vandalized I think things are just breaking which happens
What harm in that kiosk being there? It was not unclean in any way, and also it was in a corner. No disturbance at all.
Those 2 persons may have lost their jobs and source of income.
i doubt they lost their jobs, because they have several shops eslewhere and they have a contract.
the place is new clean and more cheap food stands are not needed nor do they add to the enviroment/ambiance or mood. it would be better if there were no food places at all.
it looks out of place in a new huge facility that should be focusing on keeping the place clean and a food free ethos since it would be normal for the place to be visited by many people who some will unintentionally dirty the place with ketch mustard pieces of popcorn etc..
The security personnel in the center are so unprofessional. They are either yelling over each other or bickering. Noticed a fair number of them talking on their cellphones. And when they are not doing that they are staring at women to the point that they make them uncomfortable. I was with my friend and I had to talk to one of them to make him stop following us and staring!
They almost ruined the whole experience for us! They need proper training or need to be replaced ASAP
We need to get western or western raised Kuwaiti mgmt. to manage this facility to ensure it thrives and survives with its elegance. That includes booting out noisy kids that run amok, families that think too much of themselves to keep their “inner voices” to themselves. The Louvre in Abu Dhabi (yes here we go comparing the UAE to us again) is an excellent example to strive to – or this wonderful monument will become an also-ran!
we dont need western raised shit. west has their own issues and being western raised is not a plus or a bonus or anything to be proud about. you have not met a arab mother, a proper kuwaiti mother, a khaleeji, jordanian palestinan, lebanese egyptian or any arab asian african mother to pass judgement on how kids are raised in the east and middle east.
being raised well is not location-centric.
we have kuwaitis and arabs raised properly that have elegance and manners and everything if not more than anything “western Raised” how demeaning and offensive and full of bigotry that comment is.
its a shame that you are under the image that “western raised” is something special.
manners morals and good parenting are universal.
western raised makootik.
On the contrary I meet them everyday here in Kuwait. Disrespectful kids running amok pulling down everything at jamaiyas, adults and kids talking down every nationality on the road “anna …” zigzagging down streets chasing women and putting others lives in danger… I don’t think I need to go on. In fact lets drive down to the UAE, Bahrain and Oman and see if we see this happens at scale in our own neighborhood.
Of course, this isn’t all of the locals but everyone will tell you they are everywhere here. Now yes, I have seen and work closely with the Kuwaitis you talk about – they hang around closed circles and a majority move out over time.
Maybe western was a bad choice – people with good values, civilized and educated would be a replacement for the word western in my earlier statement.