Museum Enthusiasts Mugs

The Gift Shop Museum.

"Luv a duck! I can't find me wallet!!"

Japanese tourists smiling at CCTV in art gallery.

Vincent Van Gogh's family reunion Family members with ears missing or bandaged up

You're my Mona Lisa.

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

"I think he was a celebrity."

Culture Saturday

Party Animals.

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

"Why don't you find a museum!"

Fertility goddess. Nanny goddess.

"Me? How about you go closer and read the plaque!"

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

'Are we there yet?'

They don't feed the animals in here very well, do they!

"You think two weeks in isolation is hard?"

The Other Cooperstown

"The article says there was a break-in at the museum last night. I don't suppose you know anything about that."

Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and the Art of Conversation

An ancient Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

"Could we be getting a little too museum-quality?"

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

'One more curse out of you, young man, and it's right down to the principal's office.'

Raphael

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

Rodin's Cloakroom Thief

I love Museum Shops

Diego Velasquez

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

Da Vinci painting a grumpy version of Mona Lisa.

'Pepperoni: Muse of Pizza'

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"