Didn’t think museums would get much of a mention in popular music? Well, looks like you’d be right! These are the ones we have found so far...Let me know if you know of any others (greg@museum-id.com)
Suggested by Gregory Chamberlain - Museum-id:
Leftovers, Jarvis Cocker
"I met her in the museum of palaeontology
I make no bones about it"
Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan
"Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while"
The Edison Museum, They Might Be Giants
"The Edison Museum, not open to the public
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
Folks drive in from out of town
To gaze in amazement when they see it"
The Hemp Museum, B-Legit
"The Hemp Museum
Got my drank and my blunt
Check that bullshit don’t be no punk"
Victoria Barlow, Collections Management, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, suggested:
Virgin on the Rocks, King of Luxembourg
"I love the National Gallery
and all it represents"
Tutti Jackson, Project Curator, Ohio Historical Society, suggested:
Donovan, Museum
"I drank sweet wine for breakfast, I slept about an hour or so,
Smiled a little in the silence deciding on where to go.
“Meet me under the whale in the Natural History Museum
I think that’s what she said"
Sandy Clark, Head of Visitor Services, Natural History Museum, London, suggested:
Lou Reed - Modern Dance
"Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam
in a side street near a big canal
spend my evenings in the Van Gogh Museum
what a dream, Van Gogh Museum"
ZZ Top - Got me under pressure
"She got me under pressure,
she got me under pressure.
She likes the art museum, she don't like Pavlov's dog.
She fun at the mind museum, she likes it in a London fog"
Pauline Goodlad, Documentation Officer, V&A, suggested:
Museum by Gretchen Peters
"I am an artist, I wont crawl,
I'll paint a picture of my life and hang it on a wall,
It's my sweet relief, it's my masterpiece,
Hanging on a wall in the museum"
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