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Once called the "Stephen Fry of Museum Blogging," this tumblog, written by a frustrated museologist, is dedicated to the small, random museums and weird attractions of the world. Always informative, usually funny, sometimes offensive.

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“Edgar Allan Poe (right), who spent time at the Academy of Natural Sciences doing research on mollusks; John Leidy, a young medical student (center); and Samuel George Morton, a physician and naturalist, at the Academy’s new building at Broad and Samson Streets in Philadelphia during the winter of 1842-43. This daguerreotype is the oldest known photograph of the interior of an American museum.” (nytimes)

“Edgar Allan Poe (right), who spent time at the Academy of Natural Sciences doing research on mollusks; John Leidy, a young medical student (center); and Samuel George Morton, a physician and naturalist, at the Academy’s new building at Broad and Samson Streets in Philadelphia during the winter of 1842-43. This daguerreotype is the oldest known photograph of the interior of an American museum.” (nytimes)

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A VALENTINE HEART (VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED) *CHOCOLATE HEARTS, RED ROSES AND TEDDY BEAR EXTRA* At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago visitors could walk through a giant replica of the human heart to watch its principal parts work as they do in one’s own body and actually hear it throb. The big walk-through heart had been a popular fixture since 1954, but was replaced with a digital projection in 2009.

A VALENTINE HEART (VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED)

*CHOCOLATE HEARTS, RED ROSES AND TEDDY BEAR EXTRA*

At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago visitors could walk through a giant replica of the human heart to watch its principal parts work as they do in one’s own body and actually hear it throb. The big walk-through heart had been a popular fixture since 1954, but was replaced with a digital projection in 2009.

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History’s first push-up bra, dating back to 1880, was on display for the first time last year at London’s Science Museum. In the 19th century only wealthy women could afford such luxuries as brassieres were considered quite rare. Most women wore corsets. Not until an appearance in Vogue in the early 1900s did the bra become commonly used…only to be burned 60 years later. Believe it or not, bras are not universally worn, especially in the non-Westernized world, like parts of Asia and the Middle East. And my apologies to the men out there, I don’t have the history and statistics behind the Bro/Manssiere. Forget the feminists. They must all be flat-chested. I love my bras. I don’t know what I’d do without them. After all, I’m a 36D girl. (Image Source)

History’s first push-up bra, dating back to 1880, was on display for the first time last year at London’s Science Museum. In the 19th century only wealthy women could afford such luxuries as brassieres were considered quite rare. Most women wore corsets. Not until an appearance in Vogue in the early 1900s did the bra become commonly used…only to be burned 60 years later. Believe it or not, bras are not universally worn, especially in the non-Westernized world, like parts of Asia and the Middle East. And my apologies to the men out there, I don’t have the history and statistics behind the Bro/Manssiere.

Forget the feminists. They must all be flat-chested. I love my bras. I don’t know what I’d do without them. After all, I’m a 36D girl.

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Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology, Manchester, England, 1831.Science Museum, London Phrenology originated with German physician Franz Joseph Gall with assistance from his colleague, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain and skull determined personality. These heads are numbered according to Spurzheim’s classification. The heads may have been used to teach phrenology but were probably made as a general reference collection. A wide range of different heads are present. For instance, head number 54 is that of a ‘scientific man’; head number 8 is recorded as the head of an ‘idiot’.

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology, Manchester, England, 1831.
Science Museum, London

Phrenology originated with German physician Franz Joseph Gall with assistance from his colleague, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain and skull determined personality. These heads are numbered according to Spurzheim’s classification. The heads may have been used to teach phrenology but were probably made as a general reference collection. A wide range of different heads are present. For instance, head number 54 is that of a ‘scientific man’; head number 8 is recorded as the head of an ‘idiot’.

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