Melbourne Museum Need Your Help To Win The Dorkiest Award In The World
VOTING CLOSES AT 10PM TONIGHT.
For the past month or so, a handful of Australian museums have been competing in a worldwide competition in which staff film themselves dancing around priceless artefacts and post the resulting batshit footage on the internet. Take however long you need to process that information. Preferably, you’ll do so while watching people employed by Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery swing dance to Kylie Minogue while wearing Hugh Jackman masks.
Now, it looks like one local museum could be poised to win the whole thing. Tonight is the final round of voting in the ‘When You Work At A Museum Dance-Off’ and Museum Victoria has made the cut. Their Christopher Walken-inspired routine to Fatboy Slim’s ‘Weapon of Choice’ has seen them beat out the rest of the competition from around Australia, the UK, US and Canada. If you haven’t seen it already, I can’t recommend it highly enough. It baffles me that each and every person featured hasn’t yet been nominated as Australian of the Year.
Unfortunately there’s still one competitor, the Chrysler Museum of Art, still standing in their way. Though I’m sure they’re lovely people, the staff at the Virginian gallery have racked up 58 percent of the vote with their obviously inferior dance to Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ and must be crushed immediately.
Where’s the organisation? Where’s the quality camerawork? Why would all these people waste their vote on a submission so seriously lacking in taxidermied national icons being digitally Frankensteined back to life?
You have until 10pm tonight to correct this heinous injustice.
Cast your vote(s) here.