yes. as someone who works at a museum where people wear costumes, we regularly have this issue. visitors who come in their own costumes can be pretty distracting to other visitors who don’t know what’s going on or where to go when they have questions. not to mention the whole knocking over artifacts with your big-ass…

gotta represent, you know?

actually, glassblowing was one of the first commercial ventures at the Jamestown settlement in 1608. also, we don’t do glassblowing at Sturbridge Village. —a Sturbridge Village employee