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Meet the Humboldt penguins - one of the bravest birds on the planet!  But it gets even more interesting because they also love art!!!!

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Meet the Humboldt penguins - one of the bravest birds on the planet!  But it gets even more interesting because they also love art!!!!

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These amazing penguins live on the coast of Peru and Chile which is in South America. They spend their time feeding at sea until it is time to return to land for the breeding season. That is when they have to risk being eaten by the sea lions.

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Meet the Humboldt penguins that are visiting the art gallery during lockdown in America!

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Meet the Humboldt penguins that are visiting the art gallery during lockdown in America!

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Three lonely penguins living in an American zoo had a lovely day out at an art gallery to lift their spirits during the coronavirus lockdown.

Bubble, Maggie and Berkley are penguins that live in the Kansas City Zoo.  They were allowed to wander around the city’s Museum of Art because they are missing having visitors while the zoo is closed.

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Penguins from the Kansas City Zoo recently went on a field trip to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

The adorable penguins freely wandered the halls as they admired Baroque and Impressionist masterpieces.

The museum's director, Julián Zugazagoitia, expected them to be big fans of Monet's "Water Lilies," but they were far more drawn to Caravaggio.

The museum's video of the penguins' field trip has since racked up hundreds of thousands of views.

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As we continue to stay at home, penguins around the world are having a blast. They're meeting whales in the aquarium, roaming the streets of Cape Town, South Africa, and even getting their first art history lesson.

Penguins from the Kansas City Zoo recently paid a visit to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, wandering the halls as they admired Baroque and Impressionist masterpieces.

The three Humboldt penguins examined paintings by the likes of Caravaggio and Monet, surprising the museum's director with their artistic tastes.

The director, Julián Zugazagoitia, told Insider he initially assumed his penguin visitors would be entranced by Monet's "Water Lilies."

"The reason we wanted to expose the penguins to the 'Water Lilies,' besides the fact that it's one of our favorite paintings, is that it's so calming and soothing," he said. "We thought maybe they would react to the soothingness of that painting, but they seemed to wander around and not particularly stop on that one."

But the penguins, it seems, are far bigger Baroque fans.

"I think they felt more comfortable there," Zugazagoitia said. "They seemed to spend more time there and look more intently. The room is much warmer, the walls are red, and there's a lot of action going on in the paintings."

"I don't know if the penguins were recognizing human figures and looking at that, as they like interacting with humans," he added. "Or maybe they just like the Old Masters more."

The idea to bring penguins to the museum actually started as an April Fools' joke.

On April 1, Zugazagoitia called up Randy Wisthoff, the director of Kansas City Zoo, to ask about his plans for reopening during the coronavirus pandemic.

"All of Kansas City, especially the arts and nonprofits, is a very close-knit and friendly group," Zugazagoitia said. "So we're all talking to each other to coordinate how to reopen."

"I was calling him to see how operations were going and when they were thinking about reopening. Then, as a joke, I said, 'Hey, why don't you bring some of your penguins to the museum?'"

"I thought he'd think it was a crazy idea," Zugazagoitia added. "But he said, 'Of course, when do you want to do it?' So it went from silly banter with a friend to something possible and real."

Staff members from the zoo and the museum worked together to plan the visit.

"We were concerned first and foremost for the security of the birds and the art, and that's what determined what rooms were available," Zugazagoitia said.

During the visit, the penguins' caretakers followed closely behind as they waddled around the new and exciting space.

And Zugazagoitia said he was surprised to find that the penguins were quite similar to the museum's usual guests.

"They reacted very much like our visitors, who wander around the rooms and look a little here and a little there," he said. "They say the average attention span of humans is eight to 10 seconds when you're looking in a very big museum, and I think the penguins were in that average. They were more anthropomorphic than I had expected them to be."

Since the penguins are Peruvian, Zugazagoitia spoke with them in Spanish as they explored the museum.

"I'm not an expert on the animal world," he said. "But seeing them was like, 'Oh my god, they're paying attention, they're curious.'"

The museum posted a video of the penguins' May 6 visit on YouTube, where it quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views and even made international news.

"The greatest surprise was seeing the emails and comments from people saying how much they enjoyed it," Zugazagoitia said. "I think it's also a sign of the times, that it's good to be light and whimsical and have a little bit of fun."

"I think this provided an unexpected joy and a bit of fun," he added. "The zoo and museum of art are generally physically apart, you don't see them on the same day. But we brought the two together and it was a fantastic surprise. Plus, the penguins were so cute and well-behaved. It was just an amazing day."

While The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art remains closed for the time being, Zugazagoitia said staff members had been pouring their creativity into its website.

"These very difficult times are allowing us to experiment and do things that would otherwise be hard to imagine," he said. "It's important for us to provide a robust and exciting website that mimics the life of the museum, and I hope it's feeding the curiosity and intellect so that people will want to see even more of it when we reopen."

As the penguins have proved, you always learn something new during a day at the museum.

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A museum let a group of penguins wander its empty rooms, and they couldn't take their eyes off the paintings

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Penguins from the Kansas City Zoo recently went on a field trip to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The adorable penguins freely wandered the halls as they admired Baroque and Impressionist masterpieces. The museum's director, Julián Zugazagoitia, expected them to be big fans of Monet's "Water Lilies," but they were far more drawn to Caravaggio.

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Humboldt Penguins visit the Nelson-Atkins Museum

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This home has a skate bowl in the living room.  Riley just loves it!

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This home has a skate bowl in the living room.  Riley just loves it!

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Imagine living is this cool house with its heated pool, big backyard, oh, and massive concrete skate bowl in the living room. Gnarly!

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Meet Otto the skateboarding bulldog who won the Guiness World record for riding through the longest line of people making a tunnel with their legs.  In his home town in the city of Peru, Otto glided through the legs of 30 people, setting a record for the longest human tunnel travelled through by a skateboarding dog.

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