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* the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''-themed fic ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheep'' visits [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]]. The main city of Sto Kerrig, DamHamster, boasts informative and educative museums seeking to inform the visitor of those things the Sto Kerrigian people are rightly proud of concerning their nation's culture and ethos. Museums in the city are therefore dedicated to cheese-making, tulips, windmills and interactive clog-making.

There are museums that contain some pretty interesting things. There are [[MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual museums that contain things that are downright weird]]. This, however, is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a museum where the subject is extremely boring]]. It could be the location of a disappointing ClassTrip, although if PlayedForLaughs at least one member of the visiting party will be fascinated. It might actually be made even more boring by an especially tedious tour guide.

** A school trip to the natural history museum is a boring ordeal for Louise, who gets her chaperone dad to duck out of the tour with her for an adventure. Other students make the best of it, like Zeke, who has a checklist of all the boobs you can see there.
** Another school trip was to a marionette theater, which could have been fun, if only it didn't have an insipid play about stamps. The kids were asked to make their own puppets and stage their own play, but even that was botched by only giving them eye stickers to put on the marionettes and a generic fill-in-the-blanks script.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': A school trip to the natural history museum is a boring ordeal for Louise, who gets her chaperone dad to duck out of the tour with her for an adventure. Other students make the best of it, like Zeke, who has a checklist of all the boobs you can see there.

* The ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' GameMod, ''VideoGame/BeyondSkyrim'', has a small museum called "Hall of the Champion" in Bruma, which is dedicated to the Champion of Cyrodiil, the PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. It is however, nowhere as exciting as it sounds as its rather clueless custodian has no idea about what constitutes an important historical relic, and instead display stuff like the shackles from the Champion's cell in the Imperial Dungeon and a handkerchief that the Champion once blew his nose in.

* The ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' GameMod, ''VideoGame/BeyondSkyrim'', has the so-called "Hall of the Champion", which is a small museum in the city of Bruma, which is dedicated to the Champion of Cyrodiil, the PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. It is however, nowhere as exciting as it sounds as its rather clueless custodian has no idea about what constitutes an important historical relic, and instead display stuff like the shackles from the Champion's cell in the Imperial Dungeon and a handkerchief that the Champion once blew his nose in.

* ''VictoriaWood'' mentions in one of her shows a visit to the "Tungsten and Ball Bearing Experience".

* ''Film/RatRace'' lampshades this by having the Pear family dragged to a detour at the Barbie Museum, which all but one member of the family expect to be a museum of boredom. However, [[spoiler:the museum turns out to be the ''Klaus'' Barbie museum, run by Nazis. HilarityEnsues.]]

* The ''Coogan's Run'' episode The Curator is set in a dull local museum. The museum might actually be mildly interesting if the curator himself wasn't so desperately dull. The curator blames his museum's failure on the bigger museum down the road that keeps getting all the best exhibits.

** Homer apparently feels this way about all museums: "Good things don't end in 'eum,' they end in 'mania'...or 'teria'!"

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* ''Film/RatRace'' lampshades this by having the Pear family dragged to a detour at the Barbie Museum, which all but one member of the family expect to be a museum of boredom. However, [[spoiler: the museum turns out to be the ''Klaus'' Barbie museum, run by Nazis. HilarityEnsues.]]
* ''Film/AnimalKingdom'': The Melbourne museum of art is implied to be boring because one of the characters needs somewhere no one ever goes in order to have a secret conversation.

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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has museums of things like dwarf bread or minerals, which generally bore any non-dwarf (Captain Carrot finds it interesting, but he's a dwarf by culture even if not by blood).

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* In Series/TheFlash2014 the chief exhibits in the museum are the jewel that Captain Cold is targeting and a stand dedicated to a guy who saved hundreds of cows from a flood. In fact a major tip-off to the museum's staff that Cold is planning a robbery is that he took the tour twice, which apparently no-one has done before.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' - a school trip to the natural history museum is a boring ordeal for Louise, who gets her chaperone dad to duck out of the tour with her for an adventure. Other students make the best of it, like Zeke, who has a checklist of all the boobs you can see there.

* ''FlightOfTheConchords'': Not a museum, but it has this feel. Murray goes on a walking tour of historic band rotundas. He'd planned for Brett and Jemaine to come with him, but they don't share Murray's enthusiasm.

* ''SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' focuses on roadside attractions, which include the museum at the foot of the Biggest Ball of Twine in the World. It's ''dreadful''.

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* An advertisement for the Polish cereal "Kangus" depicted a class of kids on a dull museum trip, with their teacher droning on about exhibits such as "the beautiful vase with Greek figures", until the wacky [[{{Mascot}} Kangus the kangaroo]] shows up to enliven their day.

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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota" name-checks a few other likely candidates in addition to the subject of the song. He's never revealed exactly which ones he made up and which actually exist.
** All of them existed when he wrote the song. Elvis-A-Rama was in Paradise, Nevada. It is now closed. The Tupperware Museum is in Orlando. The Boll Weevil Monument is in Enterprise, Alabama. Ocean Spray Cranberry World closed. It was in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Shuffleboard Hall of Fame is in St. Petersburg, Florida. There are several rock formations called Poodle Rock or Poodle Dog Rock. At least one is in Nevada. The Mecca of Albino Squirrels is in Olney, Illinois. The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota is in Darwin, Minnesota. The town celebrates "Twine Ball Day" on the second Saturday in August every year.

* ''Series/BobsBurgers'' - a school trip to the natural history museum is a boring ordeal for Louise, who gets her chaperone dad to duck out of the tour with her for an adventure. Other students make the best of it, like Zeke, who has a checklist of all the boobs you can see there.

* ''BobsBurgers'' - a school trip to the natural history museum is a boring ordeal for Louise, who gets her chaperone dad to duck out of the tour with her for an adventure. Other students make the best of it, like Zeke, who has a checklist of all the boobs you can see there.

Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, since [[FunForSome there's always going to be someone interested in a subject]], no matter how dull it might seem to the rest of us. [[noreallife]]

Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, since [[FunForSome there's always going to be someone interested in a subject]], no matter how dull it might seem to the rest of us.