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Staff at Tainan’s Chimei Museum are taking no chances of another hippo escape, as Typhoon Bavi approaches Taiwan. We don’t mean a real hippo, of course, but their now-famous hippo sculpture, which made headlines late last month after heavy flooding caused it to float away and drift across the museum grounds. This time, museum staff and the artist have moved the hippo and secured it with ropes to make sure it doesn’t run away again.

Visitor
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It’s all to protect the artwork. When typhoon passes, they can let it be free again.

Visitor
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People coming here for the first time might think the hippo is meant to be there.

Tsai Hai-kuang
Chimei Museum
We tied the hippo down from three points on the boardwalk to keep it safe and prevent it from drifting away in the typhoon.

The 350kg sculpture was originally displayed beneath a grove of trees outdoors. But on June 26, torrential rain flooded the museum grounds, causing the sculpture to float and drift roughly 40m before coming to rest in its current location in Lake Muse. The unexpected journey quickly went viral online. With a typhoon now approaching, museum staff consulted with the artist and decided to secure the runaway hippo with ropes to prevent another escape.

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