Jim Knowlton’s poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom”, for which Mr. Knowlton was awarded the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize for art, is featured in this travel video. The video, made by Pommie Travels, is called “Giant Animal Penises: The Phallological Museum, Iceland”:
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Weight lifting for museum visitors: What is its effect?
This study adds to our knowledge of the effect of weight lifting on people who visit museums: “Weight lifting can facilitate appreciative comprehension for museum exhibits,” Yuki Yamada, Shinya Harada, Wonje Choi, Rika Fujino, Akinobu Tokunaga, YueYun Gao and Kayo Miura, Frontiers in Psychology, epub April 14, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing […]
A tour of the Museum of Bad Art
The CBS Sunday Morning television program paid a visit to our friends and colleagues at the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA): BONUS: Back in 2003, CBS Sunday Morning, which was in those wordy days called CBS News Sunday Morning, visited to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony [though there seems not to be video of that online]. And […]
Mammals on Display
Kees Moeliker, curator of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, is visiting Washington DC. He reports: I arrived in Washington at the end of the afternoon, and found out the National Museum of Natural History was open till 7:30 pm. So I had a full hour to wander around the exhibition halls. I especially liked the […]
“Mere Exposure to Bad Art” and The Museum of Bad Art
A new study may be of special interest to anyone who visits The Museum of Bad Art. The study is “Mere Exposure to Bad Art,” Aaron Meskin, Mark Phelan, Margaret Moore, and Matthew Kieran, British Journal of Aesthetic, vol. 53, no. 2 (2013): 139-164. The authors, at the University of Leeds, Lawrence University, and the […]
Closed exhibitionists: The museum that had minimal reality
Reports pour in about the closing of a museum that had little in fact to commend it but much in fiction. The Global Times says (and supplies this photo): Museum shut over fake exhibits A museum in a village in Hebei Province has been shut down as most of its collections were reported to be […]
How to be a pest in a museum
Emma-Louise Nicholls [pictured here] explains, on the University College London Museums and Exhibitions blog, how to be a pest. Her essay begins: How to: Be a Good Museum Pest There are two types of creepy crawlies that you get in museums; ones that don’t eat specimens (i.e. creepy crawlies that fair poorly at being museum pests) and […]
Feuding Paleontologists of Old to Be Played By Famed Actors
Investigator Sally Shelton alerts us to this art/science news, reported by Deadline: Steve Carell & James Gandolfini To Star In HBO Movie About Feuding Paleontologists After recently co-starring together in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell and James Gandolfini are reuniting for another comedic movie, this time on TV. Carell and Gandolfini are set to […]
Acoustical fears force cancellation of heavy metal concert at museum
Fear that the sonic effects of live heavy metal music* would destroy exhibits and perhaps part of the building led the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, to cancel a scheduled performance by the musical group Napalm Death. The concert was scheduled to happen this Friday night, but now is not. Details are in The […]
The breakfast-cereal bat comes to roost at the museum
The pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) that made headlines (and this blog) in Germany last November, after the Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsambt (CVUA-Stuttgart) reported its find in a box of breakfast cereals, is in the news again. The mummified insectivore is now a registered specimen (NMR 9990- 03109) in the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. […]