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Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.

Though memes and classical art is not a combination that we are used to seeing, some of the museums and galleries have recently allowed their visitors to take pictures and publish them in their social media profiles, thus making the art more accessible and visible to an ordinary human being. While Da Vinci might not have planned for his work to turn into a classical art meme, this way his and other classical artists work becomes more relatable to us.

Bored Panda has collected some of the funniest classical art memes that are impossible not to laugh at, and they will please your inner snob. From explaining what girls are up to when they go to the bathroom to proving some hustlers tried to sell Jesus merchandise at the crucifixion, these art history memes prove that nothing has changed in hundreds of years. Scroll down to check out how the hilarious list and vote for your favorite entries.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually had that happen to me 25 yrs. ago. I thought I was in a drama class, but it turned out to be International Law. I guess I forgot to read the numbers above the classroom doors.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and the last on the left is simulating to tie his sandals because is sick of running

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'd be surprised, but when I was a kid, we actually did try to get some spirits to "show up" when we went to the bathroom in a group :D

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Says the person who rode to school in a warm car and imagines it must always have been that way...

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To stay wam, my grandmother would carry two baked potatoes in her pockets to school during the coldest days of winter, then have them for lunch. Of course it was twenty miles through ten foot snow.. and uphill both waya

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather tells me that he had to walk uphill both ways.

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Jerry Boyles
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still tell kids this story about going to school up a hill in a blizzard, both ways, lmao!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That be my dad. Told this story all these times. Then when I was around my teens he took us back to his old neighborhood telling us how he got to school, cutting through an empty lot, this down this block over this fence. A total of three small blocks! XD. We all started laughing and my dad was like. It seemed a lot further back when I was a kid, okay! LMFAO.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

.....We had to walk 160 miles to go to school in my day because there was no buses.... “woww cool story grandpa”

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These grandparents had it good, mine didn't have shoes and had hills they had to climb in both directions! :)

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Rachel Tetemanƶa
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This can't be a trip to or from school. They aren't going up hill! Maybe the were just sent to the store? 😂

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i had to walk 10 miles, in the snow, uphill both ways!

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catslave6
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But it was true! This really what it was like....many many miles, too. You kids just don't understand.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I walked up a Pittsburgh hill every day in the snow" my whole family practically shouts that every time my grandma starts

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Ernie Dunbar
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is *actually* a photo of my grandparents going to school. And they had to stand still for 13 hours to get it done!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How I gonna describe one day to my kids my journey to school. Or to help them get where they are. 😋😅

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine never mentioned a dead hog being involved..........#awkward.......

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Agnes Jekyll
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please--I'd love the companion painting demonstrating how it really was

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Grandpa:"Back im my day we had to walk five miles just to get to the bus station to take us 25 miles to get to a train station to take us blah blah blah" Me:"Grandpa stfu!" my grandpa also in november of 2017 😔 😢😭

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's soooo wrong but also made me laugh really hard :D

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I normally grit and bare my teeth and close my eyes, resulting in a painful grimace as though I had stepped on my corgi's rawhide half-eaten bone.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With an arrow in the eye,I think he's as fit as a fcking fiddle.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or: when you realize Viagra is subsidized but menstrual supplies are not and even have gst . ( Australian situation Goods and Services Tax )

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks very much like she's trying to get away from being raped. Very strange thing to paint.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*takes one step* "What just happened?" This literally relatable for me.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's an interesting canvas...If someone knows about it, please tell us what the hell it is and what kind of drugs the painter used. This is too weird for me to understand without more informations

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It comes with it's own dedicated propulsion and airbag system.

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