With the exception of a few random places like Shankar’s International Dolls Museum, Vishala Environmental Centre for Heritage and Arts' Utensils Museum and Sudha Cars Museum, the blog hasn’t spent much time in India. Well, let me change that with this next post. Second only to the Taj Mahal in...
This picture has nothing to do with museums, but it should be. Yes, the building should be moved to the nearest museum and people should stare at like they do with all the other crap in museum collections. Visitors can ask questions about what it means to live free and...
In honor of her 90th birthday, today we will pay a visit to the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, North Carolina. Born in nearby Grabtown on Christmas Eve 1922, Gardner’s family were poor tobacco farmers who lost their property when she was still young. It did not look like a...
The Jewish New Year began yesterday evening at sunset. What better way to party like it’s 5773 than with the Center for Jewish History’s wonderful selection of vintage Rosh Hashanah greeting cards. All date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and are written in English, Hebrew and Yiddish....
There is a saying that “if something exists in a variety of types, sizes, shapes or colors, you can be sure that somebody, somewhere, collects it.” In a world awash in material goods, it is pretty difficult to not be a collector. And I applaud anyone who doesn’t collect anything,...
Believe it or not, I am a bowling champion. Okay, more like a high school bowling champion but I have a trophy so that shit counts. Anyway, if I ever find myself traveling through Oklahoma on Highway 169 on my way to Tulsa (which is highly unlikely but you never...
Artist Nina Jordan’s “Homes for Under $50,000” is a collection of large-scale reduction woodcut prints of foreclosed houses across the United States. The artist explains her unusual choice of subject matter: “After the mortgage crisis, I was still looking, as I always had, and seeing incredible deals [in real estate...
The Museum of Fairground Art (Musée des Arts Forains) in Paris hosts an excellent collection of old fairground equipment & attractions from the historic period of 1850-1950. It all started thirty years ago when Jean Paul Favand, an actor and antiques dealer, began collecting objects from fairgrounds and the entertainment...
As much as I can say I’ve been to nearly every museum in the Chicagoland area, one that was always on my to-do list looks to be permanently closed (as you can see from the sign in this photo). We’ve covered museological shut downs here before (the Madison Museum of...
No one is perfect, and that includes both you and me, so after dealing with some mentally ill people this week I think it is best to find a museum that is the opposite of crazy, let’s say even boring. And one of the most boring things I can think...
