In the ever-expanding digital age, I have to wonder if kiddies still hang posters on their walls? Because I know I did, from the floorboards to the ceiling. Kind of creepy to think of those random celebrity faces staring back at me. Well, anyway this mass-produced “art form” of large...
Queen Elizabeth II watermark from her 1953 coronation Do you think in this paperless digital age that we should have a paper museum? Well, we do. Atlanta’s Robert C. Williams Paper Museum is the number one resource for learning about the history of paper and paper technology. There’s more than...
Here’s a random Saturday post for y'all with King Ludwig’s Gallery of Beauties (or Schönheitengalerie for those from Deutschland). In the south pavilion of Nymphenburg Palace is a collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich painted between 1827 and 1850....
I kind of hate postmodern art. My mom attempted to be an artist when I was growing up so I always felt part of that world. But the shit I see nowadays just annoys the fuck out of me. I know this girl who lives in Ukrainian Village here in...
As a non-believer in all things Saint Valentine (after all the “real” St. Valentine was beaten with clubs, stoned, and beheaded by Emperor Claudius…sounds so freakin’ romantic) I refuse to recognize the worst of all commercialised holidays, but let’s not forget…I am also a lazy asshole. So I’ve decided to...
On this day in 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by a former employee who walked out of the museum with the painting in his jacket. ,The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, claimed to have been motivated by his patriotism to Italy, to...
In a former jailhouse in the middle of Switzerland is one of the world’s most unusual museums. The Henkermuseum (only press that link if you want to hear the sounds of some weird science fiction movie gone wrong) has a collection of antique torture and execution instruments that would drive...
With the exception of a random post from almost two years ago, would you believe this tumblr has never been to Argentina before? Don’t cry for me, cry for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s face. Anyway, south of the capital city of Buenos Aires is the town of Quilmes, home to outsider...
At This Belongs In A Museum, we’re no strangers to outsider art collections, especially when it comes to sculpture. Whether it’s Wisconsin’s Mary Nohl House or India’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh, we’ve got it covered. So here’s another one to add to the list of 1000 places you will probably...
Concrete Utilities (now CU Phosco) based in Ware, Hertfordshire, were amongst the biggest of the manufacturers of concrete street lighting columns - and for many years they maintained a museum collection of both their columns and examples of old cast iron and steel columns. This is the cover of a...
