PERUVIAN penguins get their own private peek at an art gallery’s paintings. Bubble, Maggie and Berkley, from Kansas City Zoo, were allowed to wander the halls of the city’s Nelson Atkins Museum of …
Bubble, Maggie and Berkley, from Kansas City Zoo, were allowed to wander the halls of the city’s Nelson Atkins Museum of Art to lift their spirits as they were missing having visitors during lockdown.Art museum boss Julian Zugazagoitia said: “They seem to react much better to Caravaggio than Monet.”
He added: “It really brought us joy, and I think it brings the community together when the love of animals and the empathy we feel for them is also reinforced by the love that we feel for art.” More than 34,000 objects are on display at the museum, including African art and sculpture spanning two millennia, a vast Asian collection, and paintings by European masters from El Greco to Reubens to Van Gogh.
Kansas City Zoo’s CEO, Randy Wisthoff, said: “We’re always looking to enrich their lives and stimulate their days.
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