tumblr tuesday: museum friends
It’s International Museum Day, happy International Museum Day! In honor of International Museum Day, here are some digital images of inanimate objects depicting animate objects: animal friends from discerning curators, collectors, and museums. Are you ready to marvel, to goggle, to ooooh and aaaah? Lovely. Welcome to the museum.
This little monkey is smiling (kinda) because it has just seen its first IRL humans in a long while at the Ashmolean Museum (@ashmoleanmuseum).
Gamboling kittens at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (@thechildrensmuseum).
A smoothly blue-blown glass bird vessel that lives at the Corning Museum of Glass (@cmog).
This blue monkey is apparently very old. And now it is in Brooklyn, courtesy of Booklyn Museum (@brooklynmuseum).
An ox, now resident in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (@philamuseum).
Found among art history buff @artfoli‘s finds: the earliest-known 3D likeness of a cat in Egyptian art. It’s no Etruscan boar, but woah. We’ll take it.
