The Museum of Natural History in London will return the skeletal remains of 138 indigenous people taken from the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th century, often as curios.
Noun
collectible items that were originally designed to be short-lived
The MoMA launched the first major retrospective of Tim Burton's work --more than 700 drawings, paintings, storyboards, puppets, costumes, and cinematic ephemera.
Adjective
something peculiar to an individual or group, esp. an odd or unusual one
Jostling for a view of Tim Burton's idiosyncratic doodles on the walls, many came dressed for the occasion --somber mascara, cuffs embellished with lace...
The crepuscular stop-animation of the Quay Brothers explores the occluded histories of medical oddities at the Mutter Museum in Philadelpia in their new film.
Bills itself as “probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.”
Noun
anything showy or attractive with little or no real worth
The Pacific Standard Time festival celebrates Southern Californian art, a statement of self-affirmation from a region with a reputation for being more about tinsel.