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Museum Tells Story of The Unluckiest Mouse Ever

The Museum of English Rural Life is weirdly prolific on twitter, for a museum. A while ago they had an unexpected mouse guest, and things went about as stupidly as anyone could guess.

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    Text - The Museum of English Rural Life Follow @TheMERL Okay, are you ready for a tale of tragedy, comedy and mice? We have another story, and you'll be glad you came for the ride: 11:29 PM- 13 Oct 2018 788 Retweets 1,820 Likes 31 t 788 1.8K Tweet your reply The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 Yif you've been following us for 2+ years you'll have heard this one already. Sue us.) ti 177
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    Product - 1 t 177 The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 VA few yea rs ago we realised the museum was-among many other things-too brown', so we had a makeover. As in, rip-out-the-organs-dust-down-the-bones-and-start-again makeover. t3 153 The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018
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    Product - The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 VImagine walls of Dexter-esque plastic sheets, exposed wires, @Museum Ladders and more Glaswegian builders than you could shake an Irn-Bru at. 4 t 3 205 The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 VOne day a mouse looked upon this hot mess of danger and confusion and thought: This is where I need to be. 2 ti 6 227 The Museum of Enalish Rural Life' @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018
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    Product - The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 MThis is my time. ti 7 2 216 The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 MA rogue mouse on the ground floor wasn't the end of the world. Our fragile objects were upstairs under lock and key, and we have preventive measures to stop mice getting to them. ébern th tses 2 t4 129 The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 Our mouse looked upon these preventive measures and laughed a tiny laugh, and got upstairs anyway.
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    Product - The Museum of English Rural Life MYou know when you walk into a @GreggsOfficial and you see the pastries, the @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 cakes and the questionable pork products shining within? Well, our upstairs object Store is like a Greggs for mice. 2 t 15 226 The Museum of English Rural Life MWe have baskets. @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 2 t 2 164 The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMFRI.13 Oct 2018
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    Text - @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 The Museum of English Rural Life MWe have wood. M of Eng 3 157 6 The Museum of English Rural Life MWe have smocks. @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 t 4 219 @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 The Museum of English Rural Life VWe have everything a mouse can nibble, rip, digest and ruin, and this mouse had the run of it all. So, where did she begin? > E e Seflers oreace (S
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    Wildlife - The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 Faced with this feast of thousands of objects, our mouse zeroed in on the *one* shelf dedicated to historic mousetraps, crawled inside a trap and died. 27 t 57 The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 VThis might have been one of the unluckiest or stupidest mice ever to have walked this earth. 7 t 16 490 The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018
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    Product - The Museum of English Rural Life@TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 VThe humane mousetrap itself was patented by Colin Pullinger in 1861, and was marketed as the 'perpetual mousetrap Which is very apt. HERITAGE TRAIL SELSEY THIS SITE WAS FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY THE INVENTIVE FACTORY OF COLIN PULLINGER TY 1814-1894 INVENTOR OFA HUMANE MASS-PRODUCED MOUSETRAP WEST SUSSEX CaUNTY COUNC t 12 325 The Museum of English Rural Life MIt seems the mouse nibbled the string of the attached label, followed it inside
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    Text - The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 MWe had her prepared by a taxidermist and reinstated inside her tomb. (We appreciate this is quite morbid.) ti 15 616 The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 MSo there you go. A story of design which lasts centuries, and the bad luck of mice in this cruel world. ti 9 4 369 The Museum of English Rural Life MWe also work very hard to ensure the objects we keep for today and future @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 generations are safe,
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    Text - The Museum of English Rural Life If you want to see our mouse, it's on display in our #free museum in the big case @TheMERL 13 Oct 2018 you see when you first come in. You also don't need to be a mouse to browse our upstairs store now, as it's all open access: Digging Deeper -Open Store - The Museum of Eng.... Delve into our open store at the Museum of English Rural Life, where we keep our extensive reserve collection on display for all to see. meri.reading.ac.uk 3 t8 271 The Museum of En
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