The Boston Globe has done an appreciation of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). A characteristic painting from the museum is reproduced here, at right. BONUS: MOBA’s director will be among the celebrity scholars in this Saturday’s Ig Nobel event at the Cambridge Public Library, for the Cambridge Science Festival.
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The Bishop’s rectum, in a museum
The rectum of the Bishop of Durham sits on display in London, awaiting your examination. No longer attached to the bishop, it rests alone inside a glass jar in the Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The museum calls it by the formal name: Object RCSHC/P 192.Visitors can casually admire the […]
Museum of Bad Art, celebrated
Our colleagues at the Museum of Bad Art are featured today (April 1) on Wikipedia. The image here is a tiny reproduction of one of the museum’s most prized paintings, “Sunday on the Pot with George.” We and MOBA collaborated, some years ago, on a scholarly detective project to determine the identity of the model […]