The Yorkshire Museum's initiative to bring up the most extravagant pieces of the world's museums on Twitter has had a 'terrifying' success.
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"Museums, gather!" requesting the tweet from the Yorkshire Museum that, imitating the classic war cry of Captain America immortalized by Avengers: Endgame , launched one of the weekly challenges it publishes under the motto #curatorbattle to make the coronavirus crisis more bearable. But what they did not expect is that his proposal would become a viral phenomenon: his invitation to take his most horrifying pieces from the warehouses and warehouses of museums around the world under the motto #CreepiestObject! (something like the creepiest objects ) triumphed in a way that they did not even imagine.
"This thread has broken! We are not sure we can sleep tonight. Thank you all for your amazing contributions," the York City Museum account posted just hours later. But things have gone further, reaching 12,500 likes and more than 1,000 responses .
One of the first to join the initiative was the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Possessor of a large number of "creepy gems", he decided to select one that fit these times of protection against a virus: nothing less than a plague mask worn between 1650 and 1750.
They soon came to join jewels of the most varied, such as the little 'royal' mermaid of the National Museum of Scotland; the mask of a deceased man embedded in the body of a stuffed fox from the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cornwall (UK) or the ashes of a witch from Sussex who wears the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford within its collection of dedicated to anthropology and archeology.
Obviously, the success of the initiative led to the addition of museum workers and visitors to the official accounts of the museums, even giving rise to subsections, such as those dedicated to the most horrifying dolls ; the least inspiring relics ; the most surreal taxidermy experiments or the infallible photos of terrifying clowns , always ready to cause all kinds of nightmares for the staff. But given the choice of one last object, the winner would be the unclassifiable rotating head baby shown by Clare Brown , a member of the Leeds Museum and Gallery scientific team.
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