Museums are trolling each other with their best ducks and it’s quacking brilliant
Well, here’s something to add a little light to the all-permeating gloom right now – a whole bunch of museums all over the world trying to get one up on each other – with their best pictures of a duck.
It all started when the good people of the Museum of English Rural Life set a challenge for their friends at the British Museum.
hey @britishmuseum give us your best duck
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
And it escalated from there. Like, it really escalated.
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Can’t. They gave them all to us. pic.twitter.com/Up8TJFp29K
— Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) January 4, 2019
2.
next you’ll be telling us they gave away all their books too
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
3.
Ahem. We still have quite a few pic.twitter.com/jYnOyhLfNy
— BL Prints & Drawings (@BL_prints) January 4, 2019
4.
Yeah but pic.twitter.com/4qPn6nzoWj
— Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) January 4, 2019
5.
It lays: pic.twitter.com/Hyc86YvFzm
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) January 4, 2019
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Bet it’s not as fast as our duck, Mallard. *mic drop* pic.twitter.com/nujNBOPqDu
— National Railway Museum (@railwaymuseum) January 7, 2019
7.
Buuut…can your duck float as well @railwaymuseum?
May we present our 1943 GMC DUKW amphibious vehicle: https://t.co/uDgJkg4Mf6
(We were staying out of the international museum duck hunt since, y’know, our collection is more guns than ducks, but we couldn’t let this lie) pic.twitter.com/h9BAP9N0aO
— National Army Museum (@NAM_London) January 7, 2019
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We’re not @britishmusem but here across the pond we have a bird that is quite duck-like! https://t.co/eYGKog10bp pic.twitter.com/nZyKVLKrKY
— J. Paul Getty Museum (@GettyMuseum) January 4, 2019
9.
guys have you even seen a duck
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
10.
Ahem! I think you’ll find @sciencemuseum has the best duck: this is one of nearly 30k plastic ducks swept overboard in North Pacific in 1992 +washed up in Sitka, Alaska. It was used by Curtis Ebbesmeyer + other oceanographers, to track drift patterns https://t.co/vETH6XDfg2 pic.twitter.com/vpV9D6scWl
— Dr Elizabeth Bruton ️ (@lizbruton) January 4, 2019
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and doesn’t it look smug
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
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We aren’t sending our best… pic.twitter.com/kI2SNkKX3i
— Radcliffe Observatory Ducks (@OxQuackademics) January 4, 2019
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— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
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You want ducks? We’ve got ducks. But they’re all, er…resting. pic.twitter.com/O9p21KuULY
— Spadina Museum (@SpadinaMuseum) January 4, 2019
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Look at that kind dog taking their friend for a walk
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
