Museum issues curatorial challenge: Show us your creepiest objects -- museums bring the creepy

The Yorkshire Museum is issuing "curator battles" to to other museums. Their first salvo is #CreepiestObject. Yup, these and others in the thread, are pretty damn creepy.

Our #CreepiestObject has to be this 'mermaid'... #CURATORBATTLE #TroublingTaxidermy pic.twitter.com/GMSosyuqIX

- Natural Sciences NMS (@NatSciNMS) April 17, 2020

Thanks for thinking of us @HottyCouture and wow, will we be having nightmares tonight with all these #CreepiestObject|s ! Here is the one we just can't hide from you, one of our many creepy gems - our Plague Mask (1650/1750)! #curatorbattle pic.twitter.com/JrMjqAJSIM

- Deutsches Historisches Museum (@DHMBerlin) April 17, 2020

GUYS we know we have already won. This severed lower leg by Kerry Jameson has sprouted its own legs and a rather beastly head. @COCAYork #RethinkCeramics pic.twitter.com/Ip84aNacUX

- York Art Gallery (@YorkArtGallery) April 17, 2020

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, we present ....

MC 294

No need to thank us, it was honestly our pleasure #CURATORBATTLE #CreepiestObject pic.twitter.com/kgAA2ePMIr

- Egham Museum (@EghamMuseum) April 17, 2020

[H/t Stacie Votaw]

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