Early Tuesday morning, I was at the Van Gogh Museum for the new exhibition. A security guard came up to me and told me nicely that I would have to leave. He said they were evacuating the building. No sirens. No police that I could see.
So we all hurded quietly outside. They instructed us not to stay too near the building. After about an hour, they let us back in. They said it was a drill.
Has anyone else had such an experience?
I was at the King Tut Exhibit at the LA County Museum of Art in 2005 (I think) when there was an apparent power failure. The entire set of rooms went pitch black for a moment then the emergency lights went on. We were quickly evacuated out of the exhibit by security and into the main part of the museum. The power failure appeared to be limited to the King Tut exhibit. We were just about at the end of the exhibit when it occurred so we didn't linger and just left. But I couldn't help but wonder whether we were in for a "Pink Panther" or "Lupin" type moment.
