Art Storage Fail

2012-06-13T19:00:00.003-04:00

Ok, noone has been sending me any awesome packing fails, but I found this and figured I would share:

Museum of Bad Art
http://www.museumofbadart.org/collection/index.php

2012-04-17T08:52:00.002-04:00

I know, I know there is so much fail out there and I have not been posting it. Please send it to me!! If I only post from my own work I will be unemployed!

We have a wonderful submission today, I wish I had not seen pallets like this many many times, I am thrilled that we have one documented!

Apparently someone out there missed school the day they learned about gravity... I assume there must be some sort of stretch wrap supporting this miracle of modern science.

2012-03-15T11:46:00.002-04:00

Please, I beg you, all you people out there who are playing or working in museum collections, doing appraisals, or for any reason are making lists of objects:
PLEASE GIVE ME A ONE WORD DESCRIPTION OF WHAT SOMETHING IS!
Can you tell I am sorting through and cross referencing old inventories right now? I just hit a list of 30 or so things with lots of abbreviations and descriptive words, but leave out an important detail: WHAT THE %&*^% ARE THEY!?!?!?

I think is it time to step away and get some lunch....

2012-02-21T19:51:00.001-05:00

I am taking a wonderfully relaxing vacation this week, so updating has been not possible. Please send me any new entires you might have lying around so I can get back on it!

Or send me free tickets to stuff to do in San Diego while I am here. :)

I promise all entries are anonymous and confidential! Multiple entries will be scattered so that they are disconnected.

2012-02-13T08:17:00.000-05:00

If I get more of these sort I will have to make people guess what it is! I was sent this beauty from a fellow museum professional.

We all know that there is a time and a place for packing tape, I love the stuff! But this is a little extreme.

If you haven't guessed yet what lovely item is being choked in this frightening unopenable package, it is.

A pasta machine!!

On the plus side, it sure is not getting dusty...

First post.

2012-02-12T13:19:00.000-05:00

Museums are rarely considered to be places of humor, but we giggle amongst ourselves all the time with the ridiculous stuff people do. Just for fun I want to give us our own little fail blog, a little bit funny, a little bit educational. Any pictures posted will be anonymous, recognizable museum names will be blurred to protect the good names of our workplaces and employees.

Picture number 1: How NOT to number artifacts. each one of these is supposed to be an identifier for an artifact. I particularly like the question mark and the sudden addition of roman numerals that appear nowhere else.