Creepiest Museum Objects

Valentine’s Day witnessed a fun, spontaneous Twitter exchange of creepy museum objects around the world. This was a great opportunity for outreach beyond core constituencies, and it seemed to engage museum employees and the public alike. The downsides of an exchange like this – the exoticizing of other cultures/the past in general, or the superficiality of the entire notion of a “creepy object, to name a couple – pale in contrast to the enthusiasm it generates among participants.

 

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