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Bored Kansas City Zoo penguins took an adorable field trip to their local art museum

Three penguins from the Kansas City Zoo paid a visit to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the whole thing was captured in videos and photos.
By Adam Rosenberg  on 
Bored Kansas City Zoo penguins took an adorable field trip to their local art museum

The pandemic lockdown is hard for us all, but the abundance of "wild animals in unexpected places!" videos that it's led to never really gets old.

The latest example comes compliments of the Kansas City Zoo, which brought three of their Humboldt penguins – Bubbles (5), Maggie (7), and Berkley (8) – to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Both venues are located in Kansas City, Missouri.

You can see the three aquatic birds admiring all the art as they waddle around the empty museum. According to the museum's executive director, Julián Zugazagoitia, they were more taken with Caravaggio than they were with Monet,

(Claude Monet was a French painter and one of the key figures in the French impressionist movement. Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio was an Italian painter who was a formative artist during the Baroque period.)

"Humboldt penguins in human care can live well into their thirties. In the wild, Humboldt penguins are facing habitat loss and suffering from overfishing which depletes their food sources," a Kansas City Zoo spokesperson told Mashable. "Unfortunately, our penguins can’t speak for themselves, but we think they found the experience at the museum very enriching!"

If you'd like more looks at penguins scoping out an art museum – and really, who doesn't? – keep on scrolling for a delightful set of photos that The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art generously shared.

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Adam Rosenberg

Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.


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