Sentence examples for amusing museum from inspiring English sources

Among the Pier's eccentricities are a small, ill-kept but amusing museum dedicated to Astoria's history as the "Salmon Canning Capital of the World," and a crab tank where Dungeness — one of the great delicacies of the Pacific Northwest, as any local will tell you — are raised and sold to area restaurants.

Back in Beacon is the sprawling, contemporary museum DIA Beacon — equal parts amusing, bewildering and bizarre.

(The specimen got its name simply because museum staff and guests found it amusing).

Some are deliberately amusing, like "This Is So Contemporary," in which uniformed museum guards dance around the room singing, "This is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary," shown in the German pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2005.

Richard J. McCord, the city's presiding judge, recalled in a video posted in 2011 on the museum's Web site an incident he found amusing.

Looking for a cool place to recover, we slipped into the Museo de Caza, or hunting museum, and got one of the more bizarre and amusing treats of our time in Ronda.

"Since the museum will reflect Buddhist thought, I thought it might be amusing to put up some provocative or ironic ideas in the windows," he said.

Culture is entertainment, partly, and museums betray the public and their purpose if they aren't seriously amusing.

There's something slightly amusing about viewing such a hotbed of politics and ferment inside the Cabinet at the Frick, a museum devoted for the most part to the status quo.

The Zeppo Marx of The Chaser team, he's the creator of some occasionally amusing piss takes, but the SMOW idea – to hang unrelated words on gallery walls and call it a museum – was really nothing special.

Houston's amusing, down-to-earth version of the Sistine scaffold is either virtual reality of the old-fashioned sort, the art museum's answer to science museums' walk-in models of the human body, or Las Vegas at the Vatican.