--- title: A Farm Museum's Memes Are Going Viral. Yes, a Farm Museum description: A museum about farms, Museum of English Rural Life, has gone viral along with the Monterey Bay Aquarium for hilarious memes about animals. canonical: https://time.com/5236240/farm-museum-monterey-bay-aquarium-viral-memes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-11T17:12:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:01.588Z og:title: A Farm Museum's Memes Are Going Viral. 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Yes, a Farm Museum  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 11, 2018 5:12 PM UTC  Catskills Barn and Pond Catskills Barn and Pondlightphoto—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 11, 2018 5:12 PM UTC The internet’s [latest meme fascination](http://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/) has come from the unlikeliest of sources — an English farm museum’s Twitter account. The Museum of English Rural Life, a museum and archive in Reading, England that’s devoted to the history of farming in the English countryside, [went viral](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=museum+of+english+rural+life+time.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) last week after its official Twitter account began posting pictures of chubby animals like sheep and pigs accompanied by wry captions that were [distinctly meme-like](http://time.com/5027497/top-10-viral-moments-2017/) in nature. As might be expected, the funny tweets were an absolute hit with the internet, with one of the tweets in particular receiving over 95k likes and close to 27k retweets. > [](https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/982533859114979328) > [](https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/983341970318938112) The museum soon realized that there was definitely a market for farm art memes and leaned into its craft. > [](https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/983351376230191104) > [](https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/983407912516276225) > [](https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/983781152388415488) This wasn’t the only institution to realize that Twitter is definitely a space for jokes; the Monterey Bay Aquarium also caught some Twitter attention with some memes of its own. > [](https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/982317633973334016) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5236240/farm-museum-monterey-bay-aquarium-viral-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5236240/farm-museum-monterey-bay-aquarium-viral-memes/"},"headline":"A Farm Museum's Memes Are Going Viral. 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