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 Didnāt Disappoint
This Museum Taking A Shot At FedEx In One Of Their Displays
The lesson is, when you get your hands on something that's literally irreplaceable, maybe don't give it to the people who are willing to throw a 60` LCD over a fence, and call it delivered.
They aren't any better - it's all a crap-shoot with delivery services.
Load More Replies... The lesson is don't send irreplaceable items through a shipping service that charges less than the price of McDonalds meal for two or three.
I work in a lab that tests food products for contaminants. We've seen tins and flour and the like just chucked in a too big box and sent via courier or post then wonder why we have to ask for a replacement sample then you get boxes of teabags that could be sent in a normal envelope, wrapped in so much bubble wrap that you could launch it from a plane without a parachute, go figure!
Harry Winston mailed the Hope Diamond that he donated to the Smithsonian Institution, via the US post office!
This is what I was going to say! Private companies arenāt always better.
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When Harry Winston donated the 42-carat Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, he sent it via U.S. mail!
I used to work at Unclaimed Baggage Center in Alabama. They once found a 40 ct. Columbian emerald in a sock. It's astonishing how some people ship (or carry) expensive items.
Amazon is great for that! Send a $1.00 brick... it's thrice wrapped in bubble wrap, packed in peanuts and air pillows and shipped in a solid steel case. A perfectly thin $1000.00 glass rod... yah... it's tossed into a plain bubble envelope where it gets smashed to bits after the truck has run over it a hundred times.
Okay, one: don't use just any shipping-company for shipping invaluable artifacts! Do it with specialized companies who know what they're doing! Two: My brother works for a shipping-company and they had a contract with a museum or something that wanted to send their stuff from an excavation. The museum packed the pieces themselves onto crates and into the (hired) container DESPITE being offered the use of specialized workers who'd have done it for them. Cost more, of course, so they thought they can do it. Container goes on ship, ship goes over the ocean, Museum opens container... pretty much everything is destroyed. They used too weak cables to secure the crate, didn't put enough stuffing around the artifacts and didn't in general realize that there are WAVES on the ocean. Hell yes, my brother's company denied responsibility! Luckily, the contract made it clear that they were in the right. So... I'm a bit on the fence here. Do we know the Eggs were packed by the museum or by FedEx?
(cont) It's easy to blame the company, but the story from my brother tells me that muesums and researchers aren't always without fault in these situations.
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haha lesson 1. Don't throw Fed Ex under the bus at work bc that'll cost you yoUR job AND THEN lesson 2. Don't use FedEx lol
You have to pay ahead of time for extra insurance PRIOR to shipping if your goods have that high of a value. This is standard with any shipping company. This was someone not shipping their goods properly because they were too cheap. This should have gone with a specialized company.
To be fair, part of it is the museum's fault. Why would you trust 65-million year old dinosaur eggs with a regular delivery company?
10 Days? FedEx specializes in OVERNIGHT delivery. Those eggs should have been OVER-PACKED so the parcel could be dropped from a plane or run over. And they should have been shipped PRIORITY NEXT DAY.
FedEx is literally the worst. Why the heck would you entrust in them (or anyone you donāt know personally) something so valuable to history?
I'm waiting for FedEx to open their own museum of undeliverables... I mean, by now they must have a serious collection?
And i hope the staff at the museum learned NOT to send precious items this way again!
You guys actually think they sent ancient dinosaur eggs by FedEx?! Wow...Americans really are dumb š
Must've gone through the Kansas City DC, they destroy everything they get their hands on.
for what FedEx refused to pay cost them 100 times with this sign. Ha ha ha
I know muses are strapped for cash, but if the can afford the costly piece of history, maybe write in the contract that the price for will be artifact will be hand delivered by selling company.
The stupidity of sending something this priceless and historic with fed ex!! The museum moron who made this decision should be fired, sued, and banned from ever working at a museum ever again!!!
Like...i get that they're mad, but why not self deliver it if it's really THAT important??
Maybe the moral of the story here is to leave Mother Nature along? She's got this...
No, this was on the person who made the shipping arrangements. FedEx is very good at handling specialized shipping, you just have to know how to set it up with them & pay the extra cost.
Load More Replies... 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.
āExplodedā Ford Model T At The Henry Ford Museum Of Innovation
This Museum In Berlin Has āTouchableā 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
Thereās 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.
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 Frankās 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 Museumās 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 ReykjavĆk, Iceland
These Movie Tickets From The Ghibli Museum Are Made From Frames From Different Ghibli Movies
This Delorean On This Dinosaur Museumās 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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It's sad that even a museum claims the false story about Rosa Parks. The real heroine Claudette Colvin was not very happy about this falsification of history: "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.".
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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