As the pandemic took over the world, museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions closed their doors to adhere to new social distancing regulations. But don't worry. Bored Panda is here to help. We put together a list of cool museum exhibits so you could get your fix of culture even before these places open up again. And we included something for every taste as well. We're talking a WWII mannequin that looks like Bruce Willis. A miniature Volkswagen Beetle that found its way into a beetle collection. You name it. So continue scrolling and check out the entries. They should please your inner snob in no time.
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This Powerful Quote At The End Of The Holocaust Museum In Washington
How often do we fail to speak and act? Jews, Uyghurs, Rwandan Tutsi genocide, genocide over Bosnian Muslims, Kongoan genocide, ISIS genocide of Yazidis, Myanmar genocide of Rohingya...the list goes on, and this is ONLY in the last 100 years or so. I wonder what did the animals do to be punished to live in a world with humans.
2020 was a time of crisis, innovation, anxiety, and introspection for all businesses, and museums were no different. Large galleries in cities which rely on international tourism found travel bans nearly ruinous to their business models. Some smaller regional museums, however, discovered a surprising upside as their institutions emerged as symbols of good, collaborative creativity in their communities.
Nearly every museum in the US has upped its digital offerings with online exhibits, curator video chats, and virtual kids’ activities. Many are also re-thinking their reach and collections in a time of accelerated technological change and turmoil in the U.S., debating how racial and social injustice are reflected in their art.
Art Museum That Was Closed Due To Virus Outbreak Rearranged Exhibition So It Can Be Seen From Outside - Day Or Night. Salo, Finland
From a practical, COVID-fighting standpoint, directors and staffers have learned everything they could about the mechanics of their workplaces, including ventilation and airborne virus transmission. Such knowledge tipped many institutions to open back up in the summer with safety precautions (masks, social distancing) and to close down again when coronavirus infections surged in November.
The Two-Sided Statue Of Mephistopheles And Margaretta (19th Century) At The Salar Jung Museum In India. The Sculpture Is Carved Out Of A Single Log Of Sycamore Wood. Artist Unknown
Someone In This Museum Has A Sense Of Humor
“With decision-making, we are trying to be as clear, fair, and transparent as we can. Everyone was looking at the infection rate and knew it was a matter of when, not if we closed again,” Hayley Haldeman, the Mattress Factory’s interim executive director, told National Geographic. “It’s a double-edged sword, both sides blunt and painful. There’s not much more we [could have done] in 2020.”
There Is A Tiny Museum In Kyoto, Japan With Some Very Unusual Opening Hours
This Tiny UFO That Crash Landed On The Wall Of A Technology Museum
Dips and spikes in virus cases meant galleries in London, Paris, and Rome reopened at the start of summer and closed again in the fall during new coronavirus waves and lockdowns. In the U.S., the American Alliance of Museums found that a third of the 850 museums surveyed were still shuttered in October and more than 10 percent were worried about never reopening. In some smaller U.S. cities, the crisis has spurred museum directors to spearhead bold and creative efforts to survive.
Took A Trip Out To Peabody Essex Museum Last Weekend. This Exhibit Didn’t Disappoint
This Museum Taking A Shot At FedEx In One Of Their Displays
Pittsburgh, a city of 300,000 people, which has 50 museums and cultural centers, has a legacy of its industrial wealth in the early 20th century. Steven Knapp, the new executive of the four Carnegie Museums, started February 1, 2020, just weeks before a government-mandated shutdown hit Pennsylvania.
During the early days of the pandemic, Knapp and leaders from other local institutions jumped on twice-a-month Zoom calls to discuss safety standards and reopening protocols.
“Exploded” Ford Model T At The Henry Ford Museum Of Innovation
This Museum In Berlin Has ‘Touchable’ Versions Of Their Paintings For Blind People
“For a city of its size, Pittsburgh is one of the richest cultural cities in the nation. We wanted people to come back and to feel they had a good experience,” Knapp explained.
This meant that, when museums began letting tourists back in during the summer, with social-distancing stickers on the floors, guards enforcing mask-wearing, and, at most venues, timed-entry tickets.
This Sign At An Outdoor Exhibit For A Museum
The Henry Ford Museum In Detroit Is Home To The Actual Bus That Rosa Parks Protested On
"In July we were seeing a quarter of the normal flow. [At the end of December, we were] seeing 40 to 50 percent and are up to 80 percent of the participation of 2019,” said Knapp. “It’s just been a question of managing the flow and keeping those one-way traffic patterns.”
Autism Sign At The History Of Miami Museum
Found At A Snake Exhibit
Our Local Museum Decided To Add A Floppy Disc To The Fossils Section
Museums have a wide range of business models. Some rely heavily on endowments, others on admission fees or special event rentals. And while many museums don’t expect their revenues to rebound to 2019 levels for at least another year, some supported by local taxes or large endowments have less dire financial futures.
This Musical Instrument Museum Has An Air Guitar On Display
There’s A Replica Of The Moon In The Natural History Museum
Museums Are Different In Denmark
It's ironic that this is shown to the public in Denmark but has to be censored for BoredPanda.
That's because folks keep electing insane evangelicals. Remember when they covered the bust of a statue in DC because it bothered some eff up evangelical? It was covered until the next administration.
Load More Replies...There was a sign in Helsinki Airport a few years ago that read "Nobody in their right mind comes to Helsinki in November. Except you, badass. Welcome." Best airport welcome sign ever!
In Denmark/Danmark We swear. Also on adds. We’re an Nordic country. We’re cool about it and a lot of other stuff. And several generations of danes haven’t died, being more misbehaved or other thing by hearing it. The funny thing is that every generation invents new words that only they use as a “kind of swearing”. And these words don’t get worse..... So the biiiiiiip We hear on foreign programs is hopeless unnesessary.
What does this have to do with the United States? The sign is in Denmark. Bored Panda is in Lithuania.
Load More Replies...To those whining about a 'bad' word, it's not a bad word to everyone. Different cultures have different standards, not better or worse ones. Don't expect all cultures to pander to the most sensitive of you because you grew up in a repressive culture. Also, studies do show that those who swear tend to be more honest: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-links-honesty.html
It's nice. Well, if removing the Danes it would be better :D
Load More Replies...Why is this in English? Maybe lots of english speaking tourists?
About half of Danish television is in English with Danish subtitles - they don't dub like in France and Germany, except for children's programs. I remember going to the cinema to see The Expendibles when it came out, and that was in English with Danish subtitles in the cinema. This was great for me, as although I can read a little bit of Danish, I struggle when it is spoken. Pretty much everyone I met spoke perfecly good English. Hell, they even held meetings in English just for my benefit and apologised when they had to do a tiny bit in Danish when they didn't know the odd word. Also, as only Denmark and Greenland speak Danish, if you want to appeal to the masses, then write in something which is at least a second language for most European countries.
Load More Replies...Yeah, well... on my one and only visit to NYC I just HAD to see Museum of Natural History. There were bunch of children who were shouting so loud my and my friend had to leave earlier than we wanted, because we thought our heads will split. So much to shutting up, unfortunately.
Not when you have a bunch of noisy kids being taken round by teachers who can't keep control. It wouldn't have happened in my day.
Honest ! Or downright rude ! This generation understand, may even rebel ?
Nah, that's just how we are in Denmark. Profanity is pretty much a normal way to express yourself here. Not even in the slightest rebellious, tbh. Neither is it perceived as rude. But honest, that we can agree on. I would even go as far as saying that we don't trust people who don't swear as much as those who are expressing their feelings directly.
Load More Replies...Crystal clear and needs to be followed to the 'ninth degree. Art is silent except in one's own head.
I don't understand the picture that goes with this....am I missing something?..... any thoughts
It's advertising the museum of women's history...
Load More Replies...Does anybody know which exhibit is being promoted? I recognize the triangle as a symbol that was used in the Nazi concentration camps. Triangles of different colors and put in different directions had different meanings. The pink triangle pointing down was for homosexuals. Two yellow triangles forming the Star of David was used to identify Jewish prisoners.
And on the faculty of theology it reads, 'teologi, mere end du tror, which can be roughly translated to 'theology, more than you believe'.
Why do people even have to be silent in museums? Do they fear we will trouble the paintings' sleep pattern?
Because other people want to enjoy the exhibit and not have to listen to a cacophony of dumb.
Load More Replies...According to a recent survey conducted by the International Council of Museums, about 95% of all museums around the world were closed due to the pandemic, and art institutions reacted differently to having their doors shut. Some had to put staff on leave and others laid off up to half of their employees. Many museums successfully focused on expanding their digital archives and social media activity, and continue their efforts to survive.
A Mummified Dinosaur In A Museum In Canada
This Museum In Japan That Showcases Various Uniquely Shaped Naturally Formed Rocks With Faces On Them
A Museum In Kenya Has Little Funding, So They Improvised And Created Their Dinosaurs With Clay
At The Science Museum In London
Caravan Of Camels In The Eye Of A Needle, Museum Of Miniatures, Prague
I Was At The National Gallery In Slovakia And Noticed They Use Star Wars Wallpaper On One Of The Walls In A 19th Century Art Exhibit
This Display In Ashmolean Museum Shows How Touching Artwork Affects Material
What a wonderful way to show people the consequences of their actions.
Sand Museum In Tottori Japan. How Does Someone Create This Out Of Sand?
The Holocaust Memorial Museum In Detroit Has A Tree Made From The Sapling Of Anne Frank’s Tree
Saplings is usually a tiny part of the original tree that is either attached to a other tree or got re rooted
At The Uffizi Gallery In Florence, They Have Versions Of Paintings So That Blind Visitors Can Still Enjoy The Art
Whale Sculpture At The Museum
Knitted Glass At The Glass Museum In Seattle
Passing Through Columbus, Had To Stop By The Cartoon Museum To See The C&H Section
Athens Airport Has An In-House Museum Where Ancient Artifacts, Uncovered During Its Construction, Are Exhibited
The Tardis On This Dinosaur Museum’s Wall Mural
Is this from the same museum that had the DeLorean on a mural?
The National Holocaust Museum In DC Puts Screens With Graphic Images Behind Cement Barriers So Children Can't See Them
My great grandmother escaped a work camp, lived off of grass, and helped others escape from the outside. She was an amazing woman.
A Firetruck Crushed By The Collapsing Of The Twin Towers At The 9/11 Museum
visited in 2019 and it was one probably the most heart-wrenching things i've experienced. you can literally feel the weight of everything that happened that day on your shoulders. it feels like you can't stand straight or take a full breath the entire time. exiting into the sunshine and finally taking a full breath almost feels wrong. it was really a heavy experience and so humbling.
At A Da Vinci Exhibition In Italy. Non-Art Pieces Had To Be Labeled
Museum In Vienna Has A Sense Of Humor
This Balloon Dog Sculpture With Organs And Bones, Found In A Museum
The Floor At The London Science Museum Is Made Of Mini-Chromosomes
Tom And Jerry Museum, Japan
wow theres a whole museum dedicated to Tom and Jerry?? Thats so cool T^T
This "Where Are You From" Map At The Aurora Museum In Reykjavík, Iceland
These Movie Tickets From The Ghibli Museum Are Made From Frames From Different Ghibli Movies
This Delorean On This Dinosaur Museum’s Wall Mural
Oh No - Titanic Artifacts Damaged By Water
This Mannequin From A WW2 Themed Museum In Normandy Looks Like Bruce Willis
The Chair Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated In The Henry Ford Museum
Museum Reconstruction Of Roman Armor
Japanese Children Wearing Feces-Shaped Hats Slide Into A Giant Toilet
Simulating the magical journey of human waste matter through a virtual sewer world, at a toilet exhibition in Tokyo.
My Hometown Museum Has A Section On Millennial Toys
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Rosa Parks didn't end segregation. Neither did Claudette Colvin. One person never could've done it. What false story are you referring to? I was always taught their stories in conjunction with eachother.
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