Hört man das Wort «Battle», denkt man wahrscheinlich an eine Hip-Hop-Gang oder an einen Ego-Shooter. Aber ganz bestimmt nicht an ein Museum.
Doch was sich in England kürzlich zwischen dem «Science Museum» und dem «Natural History Museum» ereignete, würde wohl selbst einem Eminem ein anerkennendes Kopfnicken abverlangen.
Ein User fragte die beiden Museen, wer mit welchen Ausstellungsgegenständen ein Battle gewinnen würde. Er ahnte zu diesem Zeitpunkt wohl noch nicht, was er damit lostreten würde ...
Who would win in a staff battle between @sciencemuseum and @NHM_London, what exhibits/items would help you be victorious? #askacurator
— Bednarz (@bednarz) 13. September 2017
Das «Natural History Museum» antwortete relativ trocken: «Wir haben Dinosaurier. Kein Wettstreit.»
We have dinosaurs. No contest.
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
Doch das «Science Museum» gab sich damit nicht geschlagen, man habe Roboter, eine Spitfire und alte Gifte, so die Antwort.
@NHM_London is full of old fossils, but we have robots, a Spitfire and ancient poisons. Boom! #AskACurator https://t.co/lsdOS3HqyO
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 13. September 2017
Und dann ging es so richtig los ...
We have robot dinosaurs, Pterodactyls and the most venomous creatures on Earth. Plus volcanoes and earthquakes ... And vampire fish. pic.twitter.com/H2dNv0wgQr
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
Eine schräge Figur folgte der anderen.
What about this merman & we do have a Polaris nuclear missile as Khalil says! pic.twitter.com/uczMFrvKIw
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 13. September 2017
Aber siehe selbst, viel Vergnügen!
Jenny Haniver sees your merman, never bring a nuke to an earth-shattering meteorite fight, and our cockroach specimens w/ survive us all ;) pic.twitter.com/mbEgDseZ7G
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
We see your cockroach and... whack it with a welly pic.twitter.com/ITEPuplGHK
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 13. September 2017
There is never just one cockroach. And we quietly melt your plastics with our lava. pic.twitter.com/DaaJc5V5lJ
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
We'll (hopefully) fight your lava with all our fire engines https://t.co/gRECpigRYt pic.twitter.com/n57QKfDcag
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 13. September 2017
*Game of Thrones theme music* Send in the (sea)-dragons... (from The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons by Thomas Hawkins, 1840). pic.twitter.com/K4Duh3w7Vk
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
We see your dragons and have escaped in this bathyscaphe https://t.co/m4gMCpGNxq pic.twitter.com/zqs0YwiQRO
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 13. September 2017
It may be a good idea to avoid our Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery in that. Chomp, chomp: https://t.co/bxYONpujYn pic.twitter.com/BaqHF80tjl
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
Erm... oh, okay then. pic.twitter.com/xQwtLHjt7N
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 13. September 2017
We were all set to call it a draw, but then we saw this. Turns out, we have a dinosaur AND it's 3D printed! pic.twitter.com/vLRK0PI5JE
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
OK, we weren't going to do this, but here come the locusts... Phymateus viridipes, Phymateus karschi, and Ornithacris pictula magnifica... pic.twitter.com/LWq6WfCCB9
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
And this locust is one you can see on the balconies of the new #HintzeHall. pic.twitter.com/Gpbtivr28T
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Obviously we won't use this DDT Insect Spray (on display in our new Mathematics Gallery) https://t.co/vQzoHMaSD5 so instead.... pic.twitter.com/t3imuW1WqP
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
... we'll fight them off with this Giant Killer, a British-made insect swatter from 1900-1930 https://t.co/gmSJeBurDA pic.twitter.com/jfG0SR54aU
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
You're going to need a bigger swatter. Victorians had to shoot some insects like the Goliath beetle out of the sky https://t.co/K8fRIpiyoL pic.twitter.com/dH1CmSzFNl
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Ah, you mean something like this 1860s London-made Enfield carbine rifle? pic.twitter.com/r2sHbF41MN
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
We'd see that coming from a mile off (Bold eagle by Klaus Nigge; one of the 100 photos in our upcoming #WPY53 exhib https://t.co/GyamMcKgPp) pic.twitter.com/KLa4vwaBjc
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Time for us to try something stealthy, like this puma-leopard hybrid from our sister Museum in Hertfordshire, @NHM_Tring pic.twitter.com/UgVNAzgtOj
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Ah, but we spotted your leopard from our balloon (Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785) https://t.co/NctLaxzqB0 pic.twitter.com/gUQiaVPNJL
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
In 1785 you'd be too distracted by our fleas... they are legion (and even have there own twitter feed @NHM_Fleas) https://t.co/TvgIg9EoTf pic.twitter.com/ckOSo5ks8m
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
We would have caught the fleas in this Chinese bamboo flea trap (on show in our Making the Modern World gallery) https://t.co/4LI5va8ECv pic.twitter.com/7zWk3gzEgS
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
No mic dropping here, we look after our microphones (like this widely used BBC version from the 1940s) https://t.co/LJLAvQ3pyQ pic.twitter.com/K5ZmDu6CuP
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
Reminiscent of a compound eye, but does the sound it captures buzz as much as a fly in your ear? (Formosia solomonicola, a true fly) pic.twitter.com/VTis8rsEoJ
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
We keep the flies out of our ears with these wonderful Ear trumpets (this one is in our Who Am I gallery?) https://t.co/ZfaaahfW98 pic.twitter.com/gtSm6b2JPv
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
When it comes to trumpets (and other sounds), those of the elephant can cover a range of over 200 square kilometres pic.twitter.com/bGNfkdOz0E
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Impressive, but have you seen the Rugby Tuning Coil, used to send radio messages to Mars & submarines nearer home https://t.co/PUN2l8cnZY pic.twitter.com/UMBeItrjhD
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
When the whales were driven to extinction in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the absence of their song was heard across the universe... pic.twitter.com/d1odILMBY6
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Thankfully, the largest animal ever to have existed on Earth has recovered from a few 100 to ~20,000 giving us Hope https://t.co/x2Tg388XNQ pic.twitter.com/LqjcrD5HCM
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
So true & doesn't Hope look stunning! It's thanks to GPS satellites like this that we can monitor movement of Whales https://t.co/T7bp82Bb5t pic.twitter.com/tXdWWIkWT1
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
While satellites look on from above, our scientists use tech to study what lies beneath the #Oceans https://t.co/lPXxrlWSzH pic.twitter.com/mfPJy9XNS5
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
We've enjoyed our dance with our lovely neighbours next door. We leave you w/ Swim gym by Laurent Ballesta from #WPY53...Until the next time pic.twitter.com/XeoHbYmcS7
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
Until next time indeed! We've had a ball (just like this London Midland & Scottish Railway Company poster) https://t.co/IwXb3Al7l3 pic.twitter.com/YRukqFu09v
— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) 14. September 2017
'Over...' [End credits start rolling to Game of Thrones outro music] pic.twitter.com/koH47YGjvO
— NaturalHistoryMuseum (@NHM_London) 14. September 2017
(cma)
Nicht, dass es nötig gewesen wäre, aber ich habe mich tatsächlich erneut in die Museen dieser Welt und die Wissenschaften neu verliebt..! 😍