Museums start twitter battle over who has the best ducks
By Georgina Vincent on Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Museums around the world started trending on twitter thanks to a rather wholesome twitter battle where they challenged each other to send photos of their best ducks.
Started by The Museum of English Rural Life, the thread began with a friendly shout out to the British Museum saying:
hey @britishmuseum give us your best duck
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
Things then quickly escalated from there…
From renaissance paintings to ancient statues, Museums across the globe then got involved and started sharing images of duck themed antiquities stored in their respective collections.
We have picked a selection of our favourite responses below:
Can’t. They gave them all to us. pic.twitter.com/Up8TJFp29K
— Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) January 4, 2019
Hey @TheMerl, here’s a quacking duck that’s got to be at the top of the bill✨
It’s a cosmetics container made around 1300 BC in ancient Egypt? https://t.co/XJPetqlnRQ pic.twitter.com/CU1N0iMuLD
— British Museum (@britishmuseum) January 4, 2019
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
We see your cosmetic containers and planes and we raise you a 20th century hooked rug duck made from burlap and cottonhttps://t.co/CDuAGXFIQc pic.twitter.com/NX9iSzHRT4
— Textile Museum (@TMCtoronto) January 4, 2019
You want ducks? We’ve got ducks. But they’re all, er…resting. pic.twitter.com/O9p21KuULY
— Spadina Museum (@SpadinaMuseum) January 4, 2019
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
Hey !
Wait for uuuuus !!!
? Plate “Bracquemond-Rousseau” (between 1866 and 1875) pic.twitter.com/OJOhbfNnkX— Musée d’Orsay (@MuseeOrsay) January 5, 2019
We’ll take a quack at it… https://t.co/9eaeLzh4UC pic.twitter.com/PmHaejBu5i
— The Met (@metmuseum) January 5, 2019
Bet it's not as fast as our duck, Mallard. *mic drop* pic.twitter.com/nujNBOPqDu
— National Railway Museum (@railwaymuseum) January 7, 2019
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
