Ukrainian cultural worker Leonid Liptuga and sculptor Oleg Chernoivanov have built a monument to museum workers who, ‘despite the low wages and low prestige of their profession, remain faithful to their work [які попри низьку заробітну плату і невеликий престиж професії, залишаються вірні своїй справі]’. It is a sculpture of a pyramid born aloft by rats. Archaeologist Yakov Gershkovich has been kind enough to explain that they are ‘wise rats‘, which bear ‘an ancient pyramid of knowledge’, and their young.(1)
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Ukrainian museum workers: wise rats that bear ancient knowledge
Posted: 01/05/2014 in free archaeology, News & Analysis, resistanceTags: памятника Музейное братство, monument, museum, Museum Fellowship Monument, Odessa, Odessa Literary Museum, Ukraine
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