As the pandemic took over the world, museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions around the world closed their doors to adhere to new social distancing regulations. But don’t worry. Bored Panda is here to help. We put together a list of cool museum exhibits so you could get your fix of culture even before these places open up again. And we tried our best to include something for every taste as well. From a WWII mannequin that looks like Bruce Willis to a miniature Volkswagen Beetle that found its way into a beetle collection, continue scrolling and check out the entries!
#1 This Powerful Quote At The End Of The Holocaust Museum In Washington
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#2 The Two-Sided Statue Of Mephistopheles And Margaretta (19th Century) At The Salar Jung Museum In India. The Sculpture Is Carved Out Of A Single Log Of Sycamore Wood. Artist Unknown
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#3 Art Museum That Was Closed Due To Virus Outbreak Rearranged Exhibition So It Can Be Seen From Outside – Day Or Night. Salo, Finland
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#4 Found At A Snake Exhibit
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#5 Took A Trip Out To Peabody Essex Museum Last Weekend. This Exhibit Didn’t Disappoint
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#6 Someone In This Museum Has A Sense Of Humor
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#7 This Museum Taking A Shot At FedEx In One Of Their Displays
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#8 “Exploded” Ford Model T At The Henry Ford Museum Of Innovation
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#9 Our Local Museum Decided To Add A Floppy Disc To The Fossils Section
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#10 Knitted Glass At The Glass Museum In Seattle
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#11 This Museum In Berlin Has ‘Touchable’ Versions Of Their Paintings For Blind People
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#12 This Balloon Dog Sculpture With Organs And Bones, Found In A Museum
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#13 I Was At The National Gallery In Slovakia And Noticed They Use Star Wars Wallpaper On One Of The Walls In A 19th Century Art Exhibit
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#14 This Musical Instrument Museum Has An Air Guitar On Display
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#15 At The Uffizi Gallery In Florence, They Have Versions Of Paintings So That Blind Visitors Can Still Enjoy The Art
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#16 My Hometown Museum Has A Section On Millennial Toys
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#17 There Is A Tiny Museum In Kyoto, Japan With Some Very Unusual Opening Hours
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#18 This Display In Ashmolean Museum Shows How Touching Artwork Affects Material
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#19 A Mummified Dinosaur In A Museum In Canada
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#20 The Floor At The London Science Museum Is Made Of Mini-Chromosomes
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#21 This Museum In Japan That Showcases Various Uniquely Shaped Naturally Formed Rocks With Faces On Them
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#22 This Mannequin From A WW2 Themed Museum In Normandy Looks Like Bruce Willis
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#23 Tom And Jerry Museum, Japan
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#24 These Movie Tickets From The Ghibli Museum Are Made From Frames From Different Ghibli Movies
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#25 This Delorean On This Dinosaur Museum’s Wall Mural
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#26 Museums Are Different In Denmark
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#27 Japanese Children Wearing Feces-Shaped Hats Slide Into A Giant Toilet
Simulating the magical journey of human waste matter through a virtual sewer world, at a toilet exhibition in Tokyo.
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#28 This “Where Are You From” Map At The Aurora Museum In Reykjavík, Iceland
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#29 My Daughter Found The World’s Oldest Fidget Spinner In A Museum In Chicago
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#30 Saw David Bowie’s Cocaine Spoon In A Museum
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#31 There’s A Replica Of The Moon In The Natural History Museum
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#32 The Holocaust Memorial Museum In Detroit Has A Tree Made From The Sapling Of Anne Frank’s Tree
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#33 Respiratory System From A Local Exhibition
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#34 Found In The U.S. Holocaust Museum. Does Any Of This Sound Familiar Today?
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#35 This Museum Has A Guitarist Who Will Follow You Around Playing Music
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#36 The Big Maze At The National Building Museum In DC
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#37 Museum Reconstruction Of Roman Armor
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#38 The Chair Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated In The Henry Ford Museum
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#39 These Are 3 Of Many Leather Roman Shoes Found At Trimontium In The Scottish Borders. These Shoes Were Worn Over 1,800 Years Ago
The soil conditions mean they were found in an amazing condition of preservation. It’s a part of the national museum’s of Scotland collection
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#40 Oh No – Titanic Artifacts Damaged By Water
#41 Autism Sign At The History Of Miami Museum
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#42 Museum In Vienna Has A Sense Of Humor
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#43 This Sign At An Outdoor Exhibit For A Museum
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#44 The Iron Throne Made From Willow In Belfast’s Ulster Museum
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#45 Solid Life Advice From The Local Museum
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#46 Inside The Specimen Collections Of The Smithsonian’s Museum Of Natural History
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#47 Keyboard Waffle At The Nexon Computer Museum
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#48 Found My Ex In The Natural History Museum
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#49 Sand Museum In Tottori Japan. How Does Someone Create This Out Of Sand?
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#50 Athens Airport Has An In-House Museum Where Ancient Artifacts, Uncovered During Its Construction, Are Exhibited
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#51 Went To A Pompeii Exhibit. Saw A Familiar Face From 79 A.D.
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#52 At The Science Museum In London
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#53 The Tardis On This Dinosaur Museum’s Wall Mural
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#54 Lost Keys Of Burning Man Attendees At The Cincinnati Art Museum
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#55 The National Holocaust Museum In DC Puts Screens With Graphic Images Behind Cement Barriers So Children Can’t See Them
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#56 Largest T-Rex Skull Ever Found, Museum Of The Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
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#57 The Restroom In This Museum Has A Very Appropriate Display
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#58 Went To An Exhibit Of Food-Themed Mini Worlds In Japan
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#59 The Belvedere Museum In Vienna Has 3D Tactile Models And Braille So Even The Visually Impaired Can Enjoy Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”
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#60 This Tiny UFO That Crash Landed On The Wall Of A Technology Museum
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#61 The Soap In The National Mustard Museum Bathroom Is Held In A Mustard Bottle
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#62 Entire GI Tract Seen At The Body Worlds Exhibit At The Museum Of Science, Boston, MA
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#63 A Museum In Kenya Has Little Funding, So They Improvised And Created Their Dinosaurs With Clay
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#64 “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds” Exhibit. Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
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#65 Whale Sculpture At The Museum
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#66 Hyper-Realistic Sculpture, Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art In Bentonville, Arkansas
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#67 The Salt Man, Preserved For 1700 Years In A Salt Mine Until His Remains Were Discovered In 1993. National Museum Of Iran
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#68 Caravan Of Camels In The Eye Of A Needle, Museum Of Miniatures, Prague
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#69 Creative Illusion As A Museum Exhibit
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#70 This Exhibit Illustrates The Effects Of Water Erosion Over Time With Rocks
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#71 The Henry Ford Museum In Detroit Is Home To The Actual Bus That Rosa Parks Protested On
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#72 The “Bodies: The Exhibition” Exhibit Has A Container In The Lung Cancer Section For People To Drop Their Cigarette Packs In
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#73 Ear Eraser For Sale At A Van Gogh Exhibit
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#74 Sandor “The Hound” Clegane’s Armour At The Game Of Thrones Exhibition In Belfast
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#75 Infinity Mirror Roam- The Broad Museum
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#76 My Town’s Small Museum Received The Original Cover Art For The Great Gatsby
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#77 This Actual Air Guitar At A Museum Exhibit
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#78 This Museum Exhibit Actually Encourages You To Touch It
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#79 At A Da Vinci Exhibition In Italy. Non-Art Pieces Had To Be Labeled
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#80 Went To A 3D Printing Exhibit
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#81 Twinkies And Poptarts In Swedish “Disgusting Food Museum”
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#82 An Incredible Deformity Found At The Mütter Museum Of Medical Oddities In Philadelphia
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#83 Corpus – Human Biology Interactive Museum In Netherlands
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#84 These Kids’ Toilets In A London Museum Whose Sinks Slope To Cater For Progressively Shorter Children
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#85 This Case With 1 Million Dollars In $20 Bills At The Chicago Fed Money Museum
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#86 At The Pacific Science Center In Seattle, There Was A LEGO Art Exhibit And Guests Were Encouraged To Write Their Name On And Leave A LEGO On This As They Left
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#87 This Dinosaur Skeleton Made Completely Out Of LEGO’s From The Houston Museum Of Natural Science
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#88 Jim Hanson’s Original Concept Sketch Of Big Bird At Museum Of Moving Image In Queens, NY
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#89 Humongous Whale Skeleton In An NC Museum
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#90 Passing Through Columbus, Had To Stop By The Cartoon Museum To See The C&H Section
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#91 This Woolly Rhino Specimen Fell Into An Oil Well And Was Perfectly Preserved For Tens Of Thousands Of Years
Museum of National History, Lviv
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#92 A Firetruck Crushed By The Collapsing Of The Twin Towers At The 9/11 Museum
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#93 This Smithsonian Insect Exhibit Is Sponsored By A Company That Exterminates Insects Every Day
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#94 I Saw This Young Lady In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. She Needs To Put Some Clothes On And Stop Texting
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#95 This Museum In Rome Has A Touchable Display Of The Artwork For Blind People
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#96 This Sign Of Hobo Symbols At Railroad Museum
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#97 Original Pokemon Drawings From The Manga Exhibition At The British Museum
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#98 “Elf” By Alberto Urdiales At The Marionette Museum In Lisbon
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#99 Small Town Museum Plaque Writer
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#100 New Life Size Megalodon Model At The Smithsonian Museum Of Natural History In Washington, DC
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#101 This Hyper Realistic Bust At Our Local Art Museum
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#102 This Dining Room Table At The Broad Art Museum
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#103 This Pinball Museum I Found
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#104 My New Job At The Museum Has Little Hidden ‘Jokes’ All Around. Eventually I’ll Find All Of Them
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#105 Blarney Castle Has A Marijuana Plant On Display For Its Poisonous Garden Exhibit
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#106 This Cannabis Exhibit At The Philadelphia Flower Show Couldn’t Feature Real Plants.
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#107 This Ornament From The Museum Of Flight
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#108 This Door To A Children’s Science Museum Has A Smaller Door For The Kids
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#109 Found This Beauty In A Museum In North Dakota
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#110 The Museum Of Torture In Guanajuato, Mexico
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#111 Hair Museum In Turkey
The story goes that the local potter was bidding farewell to a dear friend of his when he asked for something to remember her by. She cut off a piece of her hair to leave as a reminder. He put it up in his shop, and told the story to the visitors and tourists who passed through. Not to be outdone, other women who enjoyed the story left a piece of their hair as well. The museum started in 1979 when a selection was put up for display. It now holds an estimated 16,000 samples by the museum’s own count and is included in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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#112 This Map With Pins Where Visitors Are From. Photo Taken At Forks Timber Museum, WA, USA
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#113 Exhibit In The Philbroock Museum Of Art. Left Me Speechless
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#114 I Saw This At Murakami’s Exhibit Today. I Love It
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#115 Display At The Page Museum Of 404 Dire Wolf Skulls Found In The La Brea Tar Pits
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#116 I Saw This 3 Player Foosball Table At An Art Exhibit
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#117 Museum Exhibit Full Of Blue Balloons
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#118 Found In A Museum’s Gift Shop
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#119 This Banner At A Museum In Prague Had A Bunch Of Random English Words On It
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#120 A Sofa Fort From A German Museum
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#121 Polynesian Tattooing Exhibit At A Cultural Museum In Okinawa
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#122 Mummified Thylacine At The Western Australian Museum. It Is Displayed As It Was Found In A Nullarbor Cave
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#123 “Be Water, My Friend”: Hong Kong Protest Exhibition Held At The Meguro Museum Of Art In Tokyo
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