Celebrating Internatoinal Museum Day

Apparently it's International Museum Day and it's also Victoria Day. Which means a lot of museums are closed. Here's some ideas of how to celebrate anyway:

1) Go to your nearest museum. If it's open, go in. If it's not, stare at the outside for a while and take a picture. If it's the ROM, marvel at the crystal entity that's crashed to earth and is slowly devouring the building.

2) Walk around your house and observe your own possessions from the stand point of a museum goer. Keep you hands behind your back and don't touch the objects. Mutter their histories aloud, marvel at their shapes and purposes. Appreciate their beauty.

3) For extra self curator fun, select a few items of particular interest, arrange them esthetically to catch the light and write place cards describing their real or imagined history. For example:

"EXHIBIT A: This Cuisinart coffee maker is a replica of a model which dated back to 2004, when it was purchased from the Hudsons Bay Company by persons traveling from a same sex wedding at the King Edward Hotel in downtown Toronto. The original coffee maker was lost in the great grounds backlog of 2007, and this replica was purchased using primarily empty beer bottles, the traditional form of Canadian currency. The Hudson's Bay Company is the department store which founded Canada. Same Sex weddings have been legal in Canada since 2003. The couple in question that day later went on to purchase Puma shoes. Not the chain, just two sets of sneakers. One of the party of travelers urinated in the correct receptacle of the King Edward Hotel following the ceremony."

Invite friends over to stare at the artifacts with you. Encourage them to take pictures.

4) If you find nothing about your house that's interesting, visit a friend. Or a neighbour you don't know very well. Point at their possessions and ask them "Tell me about this piece", nod and say "that's very interesting" in response to whatever they say. If they are able to guess that you're celebrating International Museum Day, give them a cookie.