Your suggestion is about reinforcement instead of introduction. If they only played those announcements for tourists you’d forget, or others would forget, that you’re supposed to do those things.

I was once shoved hard by someone trying to enter my building, hard enough that I developed a bruise on my breastbone that lasted two weeks. After that nothing else feels like harm.

I had someone do this at Thomas Circle last year. He asked for money, I told him no, and he followed me for about a block and kept talking, “just because I do heroin doesn’t mean I don’t deserve kindness” and his comments escalated until he was calling me a white btch. We reached a corner and when he caught up to me as I waited for the crossing signal, I turned on my heel and walked in the opposite direction. He didn’t follow. No harm ultimately, but it was one of the more intimidating experiences I’ve had with a homeless person.

That’s very edifying for the context of the op’s question, thank you.

Oh yes, you sure showed me. I’m so humbled.

I don’t know what to tell you. The museum is family friendly, that doesn’t mean it’s family oriented. This is family oriented, like story time at the library or a craft day at the zoo. They don’t want adults without kids to show up for a family-oriented event.

There’s really not another way to explain this. It’s pretty clear cut.

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It’s a family event, and they want to keep it that way. They don’t want to give out tickets for adults because then too many adults would be wandering around and it changes the nature of the event.

But I think if that worked, people would claim “the kid couldn’t come” all the time.

I don’t know who would in Cleveland Park.