Open AccessAn event of curiosity: When a mermaid fake crawled on a TV-screen
Author(s) -
Pilvi Vain
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.3664
Subject(s) - curiosity , the imaginary , event (particle physics) , art , trojan , art history , literature , psychology , psychoanalysis , computer science , computer security , social psychology , astrophysics , physics
Curious things can happen when we put together two mysterious mermaid fakes from the South Sea, two imaginary American FBI agents, and an ordinary Finnish museum workaer. In an extraordinary way, this combination gave rise to some clues which led to some detective work concerning the origins of the two mermaid fakes in the National Museum of Finland.