Museum Maven Gifts

Dinosaurs in museum with model of an extinct bank

Art Museum field trip.

A sign that reads "ART...and plenty of it!" hangs above the entrance to a museum.

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

'It looks messy but it has a certain cachet.'

'Hall of small mammals'

Caveman Sticky Notes

I would love to have the time to knock off some museum quality art like that.

'This one's titled, 'Artist's Block'.'

Carbon Dating

Art gallery - information/information other than 'where's the shop'.

'Black dots indicate actual creative involvement.'

'Notice how the eyes follow you out of the room.'

'For the last time, this hall is for exhibits. Now please leave.'

Friends of the Royal Academy - Annual Dinner

Copycat.

The sunglasses.

Whe did you last see our Vermeer ?

P.T. Barnum as a child.

"...And we ask that you please not make fun of the name."

'The victim has defense wounds. When the art challenged her, she clearly put up a fight.'

"Yeah, the Declaration of Independence is beautiful! What font is that?"

Culture Vulture

"It's from around this time that we began to see a change of style in the artist's work."

"Can you guess how much it will be worth after you die?"

A peeping tom visits a museum.

"That museum tour was great! My favorite part was the dinosaur skeletons! What was your favorite part, Nora?"

"Now we're moving into the landscape section."

Scary things in the museum

"... No, when I say, 'you must let go of the past' I mean you must return that vase to the museum you took it from."

"That's the great thing about art, even a second-rate forgery like this can brighten up a room."

A man takes a selfie with an Egyptian mummy

"... Yeah. Just dropping it off now."

"You didn't think the nice people at the Rijksmuseum would give you this classy Vermeer and never collect, didja?"

"He had the Guggenheim in mind, I think."