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Missouri penguins enjoy ‘morning of fine art’ at local museum
- JimDabell 6y agoIn Singapore Zoo, they are letting the penguins roam around the rest of the zoo and they've built them an obstacle course as well: https://www.timeout.com/singapore/news/the-penguins-at-singapore-zoo-are-keeping-busy-with-obstacle-courses-after-a-swim-043020 https://www.timeout.com/singapore/news/the-penguins-at-singa... https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/zoo-closed-penguins-get-to-go-on-excursion-instead https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/zoo-closed-penguins-g...
- aspenmayer 6y agoArt is technology that is designed to be appealing and interesting. I appreciate and support this interdisciplinary effort to recontextualize art and share it with others in strange new ways.
- trhway 6y agoThey should at least put TV screens at the zoo and play the videos with visitors and those videos that animals like to watch.
- jmull 6y agoThis is brilliant. Penguins are such great vicarious avatars for people in any case. Here, in the context of art in a museum, it works even better. You can hardly help but try to image what they make of the paintings, and in the process take a fresh look at them yourself. Also, I'm far from an expert on Penguin body language, but they do seem happy to be there.
- tokyoseb 6y agoThis reminds me of the Gerbils Museum [1], although this one is obviously a real museum for humans visited by penguins, rather than a museum built specifically for penguins. [1] https://www.boredpanda.com/quarantine-gerbil-art-gallery/ https://www.boredpanda.com/quarantine-gerbil-art-gallery/