Pandemic — a time not only disease, but also horror stories. When in mid-April, the Yorkshire Museum has published in social networks photos of the most terrible masterpiece, which the curators could find in their vaults, they took the challenge not only of the British museums. Ogonek looked, which exhibits scare each other museums around the world during the quarantine.Anna Sabfabisco such exhibits like the hair cut from the head of Roman women 17-18 centuries ago, and still adorned with studs, visitors in the Museum halls will not entice. However, the Yorkshire Museum decided to take a chance and it paid off — after the publication of 17 April on social networks spread pictures of such exhibits, which are quite would give odds to any horror movie. The German historical Museum in Berlin immediately boasted exhibit on the topic of the day — the mask of the plague doctor with a hooked beak. National Museum of Scotland posted a photo of a mermaid with the head of a monkey, and Australian Museum of old and new art recalled that only he had kept the installation in the form of a tea party with kittens works best Taxidermist of the Victorian era.Do not remain aloof and domestic museums. The Museum of the East presented a Tibetan ritual bowl XIX century, decorated with intricate carvings, turquoise and coral, and the Museum-reserve “Kulikovo field” — the reconstruction of the remains of the inhabitants of medieval Rus killed by bladed weapons. The curators of Peterhof found mascarones (the sculpture of a human or animal, used as decorative elements in architecture) with the most bloodthirsty expressions, Tsarskoye Selo said the whole dragon bridge, the decorations of which from the XVIII century was called the “terrible figures”. Museum. Andrei Rublev was extracted from the vaults of the Yaroslavl mural with the torments of hell perjurer in hell. To decide whose collections are the worst the exhibit will have visitors, so the fight for the huskies is serious.
