40 Ways In Which Museums Went Above And Beyond To Impress Visitors

Visits to the museum are a chance to expand one’s knowledge via visual and auditory learning. Many people enjoy strolling through the cool corridors exploring and questioning whether what you see is indeed real.

#1 That’s Unreal

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Zorro The Bus Conductor (edited): It’s nice to see those iconic cuddly toys. However the REAL Christopher Robin used to own a book shop in Dartmouth (UK) and I saw him a few times when I visited it. It would have been nice to have had a good old natter about his life but I respected his privacy and bought my books and left. 🐻🇬🇧

#2 Museum Glass vs. Regular Glass

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#3 From My Trip Through The Holocaust Museum, This Little Boy Took His Boot Off To Shower And Never Put It Back On

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#4 The Original Gay Pride Flag, And The Sewing Machine It Was Made With

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#5 I Found The Infamous 3700-Year-Old Copper Sale Complaint In The British Museum

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#6 There Is A Free Public Cycle Path Through The National Dutch World War II Museum

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#7 From The Hakone Open-Air Museum

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#8 The World’s Roundest Object, At The Deutsche Museum In Munich, Germany

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#9 This Little Girl’s Rock Displayed In My Local Museum

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#10 The Actual Bus Rosa Parks Refused To Change Seats On. National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, TN

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Paul C.: @RamiRudolph I appreciate what you are saying that Claudette Colvin was under appreciated, but I don’t think you can say that Rosa Parks was overrated. Her stance was vital to the Civil Rights movement.

#11 I Went To A Guitar Exhibition That Featured A Space For Air Guitar

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#12 These Dinosaurs Wearing Masks At The Indianapolis Children’s Museum

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#13 These Flowers Are Made From Crystals. Natural History Museum, Vienna

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#14 One Of The 4000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wagons Unearthed In The Lchashen Village In The Vicinity Of Lake Sevan. Made Of Oak, They Are The Oldest Known Wagons In The World

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Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia.

#15 Skeleton Of Siamese Twins In The Mütter Museum

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#16 Plastic Bag Jellyfish At Vancouver Aquarium

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#17 The Capitoline Museums In Rome Have Artworks Carved Out On Stone For Visually Impaired People To Feel So That They Can Also Enjoy Paintings

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#18 The Ficus Retusa Linn, The World’s Oldest Bonsai Tree, Is Over 1000 Years Old. Crespi Bonsai Museum, Italy

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#19 This Moon Exhibition In My Local Town

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het: So,Gru succeeded after all.

#20 1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England

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#21 The Way This Museum Arranged Snail Shells To Demonstrate Color Variation

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#22 Xenomorph By H. R. Giger. Exhibition In Berlin

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#23 I Took This At The Van Gogh Exhibit In NYC. One Of The Best Experiences Of My Life

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#24 “Puppy” – A Dog Statue Made Entirely Of Flowers By Jeff Koons In 1992, Is Located In The Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain

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#25 The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years Almost Completely Intact

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Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship.

#26 In Japan, There Is A Museum For Rocks That Look Like Faces

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sleepybear: they look rather stone-faced to me

#27 The Fire Exit Sign In This Egyptian Museum Is A Pharaoh Running

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#28 LEGO Dinosaur, Australian Museum

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#29 This Museum Has Taxidermized Animals Randomly Hidden In Odd Places – Behind Other Exhibits And So On

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Chihuahua Mama: Living mice in the museum: “if I stay perfectly still when I see a human, they will think I’m just a display”

#30 My Brother Went On A Trip To Egypt And Saw Mummified Crocodiles Exhibited In A Museum

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein: Worlds earliest attempt at googly eyes.

#31 Dice For An Ancient Korean Drinking Game, Inscribed With Commands Like “Chug It All And Dance” Or “Sing A Song”. Around 750 AD, Gyeongju National Museum

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#32 Data’s Costume On Display At The Goonies Museum In Astoria, Oregon

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#33 Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum. Each Suitcase Is A Family, A Life

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#34 The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History Is Now Vaccinated! They Gave It A Bandage When Kids In America Were Approved For Their Shots

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#35 These Mugs Are 3,700 Years Old. From The Minoan Civilization And Now On Display At The Heraklion Museum, Greece

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#36 My Local Museum Got A Life-Size Replica Of A Quetzalcoatlus. It Looks Too Real

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Goose of the Ahonkalypse: One of the greatest joys of parenting for me was getting to learn how to pronounce about 60 dinosaur/prehistoric creature names correctly for my dino obsessed kid. I’m still really proud of myself for this one.

#37 A Museum Display Showing The Clothing Worn By Intimate Assault Survivors During The Time Of Their Attacks

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#38 A Full Human Nervous System In The Anatomy Museum In Baylor College Of Medicine

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#39 I Found The Holy Grail Today In A Museum In France

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#40 This Real Triceratops Skull In Mid-Processing. Denver Science Museum

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