Museums are having a field day with these duck pics.
The Museum of English Rural Life, whose Twitter account is the internet equivalent of a hot cup of tea on a rainy day, asked the British Museum to give them their “best duck.”
Instead, museums from around the world started submitting their own ducks, of all shapes, sizes, and designs, for consideration.
Dr. Rhi Smith from the University of Reading tweeted a photo of this gorgeous carved duck, which doubles as a jug for all the thirst tweets.
What about ok
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
The J. Paul Getty Museum, while good-intentioned, seemed to misunderstand what a duck is and innocently responded with a photo of whatever creature this is supposed to be. Notice that while vaguely duck-shaped, it’s not quite a duck.
guys have you even seen a duck
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
A pair of ducks who live at the Radcliffe Observatory sent this extremely rude photo of a duck saucily stealing human food.
The Science Museum’s duck has made its rounds all around the globe — the promiscuous little plastic duck was used to track ocean patterns.
and doesn’t it look smug
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
You just know that the duck submitted by the Norfolk Museum Service is that duck who monopolizes social gatherings with their own shitty covers of mid-90s rock.
Play Wonderwall
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
The Met and the Musée d’Orsay offered up their beautifully painted ducks.
Throughout the vast expanse of duck pics shared in this thread, there were some tensions over who had the best duck. The British Museum finally replied with a duck-shamed cosmetics container from ancient Egypt. It’s functional and aesthetically pleasing!
But the Museum of English Rural countered with a carved wooden “plane with a weird looking duck head” from the nineteenth century.
The Mary Rose Museum insisted that their rubber ducks, dressed for the occasion, were better.
Fighting words
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
And the Natural History Museum insisted that they were in possession of all the ducks, accompanying their fighting tweet with a painting of four ducks hanging out.
next you’ll be telling us they gave away all their books too
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
The National History Museum did not come to mess around — they are immensely proud of their ducks.
There were small ducks and big ducks making in appearances in this blessed thread. The Louvre replied with an adorable photo of a tiny duck figurine, which dates back to ancient Egypt. And although the Smithsonian is closed because of the government shutdown, a historian suggested a girthy “big boi” originally from the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico.
In all honesty, it’s not about your duck’s size or shape that makes it special.
Honestly seeing museums flex over ducks in their collection is the kind of energy I want from 2019
— Hannah Keen (@hannahkeenbeen) January 4, 2019
But let’s all agree to send each other more duck pics this year.
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