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Galactic History Museum

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.

The Googler

"I think he was a celebrity."

Party Animals.

Culture Saturday

'That's about it so far, Son.'

"You're on a what?!"

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

"Well....I could've done this!"

"Why don't you find a museum!"

'They look more up to date than the ones in your tool-box.'

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

Fertility goddess. Nanny goddess.

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

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

Sci-Fi Museum. New Exhibit. H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a radio drama about aliens from Mars invading earth. The radio drama was presented as a series of fake news reports about devastation caused by the invading aliens. Many listeners turned in to the program mid-roadcast and thought the news reports were real. Widespread panic ensued. Wow! Orson Welles caused all that panic with a radio program. Just imagine what he could have don

'I could do that.'

'Evidently, one of them was a cartoonist!'

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

Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and the Art of Conversation

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

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

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."

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

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

A child at a museum starts to pull the wrappings off a mummy.

An ancient Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

Wicca Heritage Centre: Hansel and Gretel stayed here.

Raphael

Antiques

'We unfortunately had to compress our dinosaur area due to budget cuts. On the bright side, TyrannoTriStegoApatoHadroPlesioSaurodon Rex here is now the museum's most popular exhibit.'

"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. . . ?"