Greater Cincinnati’s Vent Haven Museum [is] the only major public museum devoted to ventriloquism (the art of throwing voices) and has more than 750 historic and/or unusual ventriloquial figures — colloquially and sometimes controversially known as “dummies.”

Vent Haven’s piece de resistance: a building known as “the schoolroom,” where rows and rows of figures sit in metal chairs, organized according to their makers, with each exuding its own personality because of size, facial expressions, clothing or name.

The effect is overwhelming.

 
“The Schoolroom”? Seriously?

Also, if by “overwhelming” you mean holy mother of god that is creepy, not to mention a horror movie waiting to cross over into reality.

I get it, it’s a complex and storied art rife with cultural subtext.

They’re also really, really creepy. Sorry. I just call it like I see it. The only thing would be creepier than this to me would be a clown museum.

Oh god. You mean those actually exist, too?

Excuse me while I crawl into a corner and have a nice catatonic break. I’ll be back later.

Via CityBeat.