(CNN) Fish-tailed monkey "mermaids." A snuff box for storing pubic hair. Enough creepy dolls to fill a haunted schoolhouse.
With their doors closed due to the pandemic, museums in the UK and beyond have been taking to Twitter to showcase the most terrifying items in their collections, and it might be enough to make you glad to be safe at home.
England's Yorkshire Museum threw down the gauntlet on April 17 by sharing a bun of human hair which once crowned the head of a Roman woman.
There was a strong showing for Fiji mermaids -- a taxidermy fad for stitching together monkey-fish hybrids -- with Natural Science NMS's rose-hued lovely winning this particular beauty pageant.
The Yorkshire Museum has been running its Curator Battles on a weekly basis, with another epic showdown scheduled for this Friday. The museum's communication manager, Lee Clark, tells CNN Travel that its Twitter account has gained 2,600 new followers in the past few days.
So who's the winner of this impressive battle? It's clearly us readers, who -- while museums worldwide have had to shut up shop -- can still peruse pictures of snaggle-toothed rat creatures and woodwormed ventriloquist's dummies.
After all, Penshurst Place's bear needs your pennies to fund its drinking habit.
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Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle - CNN
