With the passing (or should I say decaying) of Surrealist artist H.R. Giger let me bring back an old post from a year and a half ago: Follower tonyrios87 informed me about the existence of the HR Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. As you guessed by the name of the...
Okay, if this next one doesn’t creep you out, then something must clearly be wrong with you. Along Highway 5 outside of Suomussalmi, Finland, thousands of scarecrow-like figures stand quietly in a field. “The Silent People” created by artist Reijo Kela in 1988, are simple wooden bodies made up of...
If anyone can remember as far back as July, I went on a short trip to New York City. A few of you recommended a visit to Obscura Antiques & Oddities, which is also a television show on the Discovery Channel (I’ve seen, like, one episode at a friend’s house...
Opened just last year, the New York Tattoo Museum is located in Staten Island’s Old Town neighborhood. On the upper floor of tattoo artist Dozer’s Island Tattoo parlor, tattoo fans can find three exhibits and two glass cases full of historic artifacts from the tattoo trade. It starts with the...
Even though I lived in Great Britain for over a year, I didn’t make it down to see the country’s number one tourist attraction, Stonehenge. Fortunately (or unfortunately) America has its own version in Virginia. Foamhenge was made entirely of, yes you guessed right, foam. It was created by artist...
Time for another creepy museum, maybe not in the classic sense, but it’s still a bit weird for an art museum. What am I talking about? That would be the Vigeland Museum at Slemdal, one of Oslo’s best kept secrets. The museum is basically a mausoleum to artist Gustav Vigeland...
The other day’s post on alcohol will now be followed with another vice. That would be smoking of course. In Paris, a haven for smokers even with a bistro ban, you’ll find the world’s only Smoking Museum. I mean, let’s not forget…cigarette is a French word after all. At Le...
The tumblr for the Hunterian Museum in London posts sketches and artwork that people have done while hunched over in a corner. Kind of cool! 3476 A foetal porcupine at the end of it’s uterine development.3426 Fully developed embryonic gosling dissected to show the course of the umbilical veins.P1538 The...
We’ve covered small museums here before…you might recall Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, Edgar’s Closet or even the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum. In the 1970s Swiss artist Herbert Distel worked on his Schubladenmuseum (Museum of Drawers), a collection...
Artist Dorr Bothwell’s sketch of visitors at the San Francisco Art Museum in 1942, part of “A Day at the Museum”, a museum exhibit about museum exhibits at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, open through 2 June 2013. Some of the items on display include famous artists’ letters, recorded...
