In these strange and unprecented times (I don’t think anyone has called them that yet, I think I’ve coined a term that all the cool cats will be using before long), people have been doing unusual things to keep themselves entertained.
Most of these unusual things involve nominating people to do things on Facebook with no explanation.
Some of these unusual things are quizzes. I can’t fathom where the quiz addiction has come from other than it being a form of interaction which you can do via video. I quite like quizzes so I’m not complaining.
One thing that some friends and I did was invite each other to virtual museums. This requires a small amount of backstory…
In 2016, the world went to shit. Also, we went on holiday to the Lake District to climb Scafell Pike. Whilst there, we discovered there was a pencil museum nearby. We were all rather excited to visit. Imagine our dismay when, upon arrival, we discovered that it was closed due to flooding. Actually, you don’t need to imagine our dismay because it was captured in a photograph.
It is only now whilst writing this that I discovered visiting the pencil musuem was not on my bucket list, a fact that I have just rectified.
We did manage to find another museum, The Puzzling Place, which for just £3.50 each gave us many delights. Such as this amusing photo of us all in a weird perspective.
And whilst it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, it never quite made up for not seeing the world’s biggest colouring pencil. Anyway, ever since whenever we have gone away on one of our intrepid adventures, we have sought out the most amusing and frivolous museums nearby.
When the lockdown hit, we were all very concerned that we would not be able to go on our holiday in September and so to get our museum fix, we all created museums out of the things available in our houses. This made for a very enjoyable evening.
Adam and Alice created a Boozeum, with a quite frankly astonishing amount of alcohol. I have been to their house on many occassions and I can’t work out where it has all been hidden.
Louise and Matt created a Loo-seum, where they curated several exhibits of mainly bathroom items and exhibited them on a wooden plinth.
We created a Mugseum, because we have more mugs than any one household could use in a lifetime. We do quite like tea in our house, and have been given many mugs as gifts. We organised these into categories and displayed them for the visitors to our museum.
Afterwards we did have to admit that perhaps we have more than we need.
Anyway, if you’re bored during lockdown, I can recommend creating a museum for your friends to visit. It’s great fun. If you do, bung me a free ticket, yeah?