Italian couple in London create a museum for gerbils, and the stunt deplores

Evidently they had nothing better to do Filippo Lorenzin and Marianna Benetti (he an independent curator, she an artist), Italians working in London, who, to pass the time during the home containment measures for the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in the UK, came up with the idea of creating an art museum for their two gerbils, Pandoro and Tiramisu.

Two weeks of lockdown evidently is a long time to endure, and so here’s the gimmick: a small museum, complete with famous paintings and their respective captions (there’s Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Munch’sScream, Klimt’s Kiss, and of course, the Mona Lisa couldn’t be missed: all, of course, starring gerbils), of benches to sit on, prohibition signs (“please don’t chew”), containers for illustration cards, chairs for the janitors, an environment with white walls and parquet floors evoking white cube galleries. All created by hand by Marianna Benetti, who initially thought of setting up a dollhouse, but given her and her partner’s profession, she then thought the museum was a better idea: and so, with cardboard, paper and plywood, here is the gerbil-sized picture gallery ready.

Photos of the art-connoisseur gerbils have gone around the world, not least because in some of the pictures it looks like the two rodents are really interested in the paintings. The pictures of Pandoro and Tiramisu discovering art have been posted on social media, where they have gone viral (the two critters also have their own Instagram account: @pandoro_tiramisu_gerbils, and lovers of the genre can follow their exciting daily adventures). We publish a few of them below.

The gerbil museum

The gerbil museum

The gerbil museum

Italian couple in London create a museum for gerbils, and the stunt deplores

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