Museums Are Competing Over Who Has The Creepiest Exhibit, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
Since its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Yorkshire Museum in England has launched a weekly #curatorbattle on social media to challenge others to showcase their objects related to a particular theme. A couple of days ago, the museum posted a picture of a hair bun from the burial of a Roman woman in the third or fourth century, kicking off a new competition. This time, curators from all over were asked to share their most sinister possessions. And they delivered.
From a chilling plague mask and haunting dolls to a painted whale eardrum and beyond, museums have been responding to the #CuratorBattle with their #CreepiestObject and it’s what horror movies are made about. Continue scrolling and get your share of nightmare fuel!
“The curator battle has been gradually building as more and more museums and the general public look at our Twitter feed every Friday to see what theme we’re going to pitch,” Millicent Carroll, digital engagement officer for the York Museums Trust, told Bored Panda in a statement.
“Last week’s ‘Best Egg’ had replies from the Hermitage in Russia and the American Museum of National History, but the creepiest object has taken it to another level!”
Replies have come from the German History Museum, Oshawa Museum in Ontario, Canada, the New York Historical Society, and America’s first museum – the Charleston Museum. It has also been popular in the UK, with museums such as the Imperial War Museum, Bank of England Museum, curators from the National History Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, and many Yorkshire museums getting involved.
9 hours ago
Ariel before makeup.
Carroll said it is great for museums to be able to still share their collections with the public when their doors are closed.
The pandemic hasn’t been kind to these establishments. For example, the York Museum Trust, a charity which runs several of York’s museums, including the Yorkshire Museum, was forced to close all of them due to the coronavirus. “We have lost 70% of our income, as most of it comes from visitor admissions,” Lee Clark, communications manager for the trust, added.
10 hours ago
If you turn it to the right it looks like a surprised cow! 🙂
“Social media is one of the few ways we can still engage with audiences so we have been working really hard to come up with innovative and interesting ideas to get people talking and learning about objects in our care,” Clark explained.
And it looks like the staff is doing one heck of a good job. Their creepy object tweet has had nearly 10K likes and 4K retweets, gaining the Yorkshire Museum 2.6K followers over the weekend alone.
York Museums Trust has also created Museums From Home, a page on their website dedicated to ways people can get involved with its collections, buildings and stories while they’re closed.Also, if you want to support the organization and all the wonderful things they’re doing, consider donating through their website.
Also, if you want to support the organization and all the wonderful things they’re doing, consider donating through their website.
13 hours ago
His last words were “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.” Trust me, he was creepier when he was alive.
8 hours ago
Nope, nope, no!
9 hours ago
Spoiler: the person on the right was never seen again.
9 hours ago
Can you imagine tripping over that thing on a dark and stormy night? I’d go 0 to 100 km/h faster than a Ferrari.
9 hours ago
That is horrible 🙁
9 hours ago
The “Real” Annabelle… I’d throw this thing deep in an abyss somewhere and never look back!
9 hours ago
Slipknot jnr
4 hours ago
Getting some strong “Meet the Feebles” vibes here
9 hours ago
“We come in peace”
9 hours ago
Some kind of momento mori?
9 hours ago
Now THAT’s a Diorama!
9 hours ago
Who the heck is Glory?
9 hours ago
Thats what inbreeding does for you 😉
8 hours ago
Scold’s bridle… see this https://www.hevercastle.co.uk/news/castle-objects-month-february-scolds-bridles/
9 hours ago
Yeah, really cute!
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9 hours ago
“for breaking evil spells, and for good luck, do NOT own this.”
7 hours ago
Ha! Another one! Was it all the rage to present proof that mermaids are real? A Victorian pastime?
8 hours ago
Why a ting of hazelnuts I wonder?
7 hours ago
“Oh, dum dee dum, what a great day of whale hunting! I wonder what I should do with this earlobe I cut off of it? Oh, I have an idea! Let’s paint a super cool, not creepy, face on it!”
8 hours ago
The head being detached from the body does not help…
10 hours ago
This was fine, until I saw the snake.
8 hours ago
I actually like this one, for bringing the completely unexpected to something as hopelessly mundane as a pincushion. Anyone up for a pincushion challenge?
8 hours ago
The upraised, wagging finger is what pushed me iver the edge. **shudders**
4 hours ago (edited)
wait but where did the gambler get the bone?
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7 hours ago
Glad I am alive now.
Note: this post originally had 87 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
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