I have a friend who collects various versions of Monopoly games. I wonder if she knows that Discovery Meadow, near the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose, California has the “Monopoly in the Park” board, the largest permanent version of the game in the world. Constructed in 1992, the massive...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Every year during the month of October THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM attempts to highlight some Halloween-worthy museums and attractions. I hope you enjoyed learning about them. Maybe one day you will be able to visit Munich’s Asamkirche where a gilded skeleton sculpture tries to cut down an...
Believe it or not, college fraternities did not invent the drinking game (okay, maybe beer pong but who wants to play that except idiot douchebags?). Consuming alcoholic beverages and playing games simultaneously dates back to antiquity. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston just opened the brand new Kunstkammer Gallery,...
Why would you want to visit Paris when you can just go to the South of France and see the trash version (not to be confused with Paris Hilton or the hotel in Las Vegas) for free? For almost two decades Gerard Brion has been recreating landmarks, like the Eiffel...
The Dinner Party is a permanent exhibit at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. An important milestone in 1970s feminist art, the piece was created by artist Judy Chicago who wanted to “end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out...
Even though he was known for killing lots and lots of animals, the cute lil’ teddy bear was named after President Teddy Roosevelt due to an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902. An American Black Bear was cornered, clubbed, and tied to a willow tree...
We’ve covered miniature versions of cities here before; like Miniatürk, one of the world’s largest miniature parks, and Mini-Paris. Well, you can add one more “mini” to the list with Mini Israel. First conceived by Israeli entrepreneur Eiran Gazit after he visited the famous miniature town of Madurodam in the...
Next time you’re in Japan, specifically Tokyo, why not check out the Ruriden Mausoleum? This isn’t any old mausoleum, it uses high-powered LED lights to illuminate over 2,000 Buddha statues, which are made of glass called “ruriki” that emit different colors of light to create a dreamlike atmosphere for visiting...
I’ve decided to bring back an old post because 1.) I’m lazy. 2.) You’re lazy and I know many new readers are not going to read shit from 2 years ago. 3.) It’s Halloween so it’s time to focus on the scary, creepy stuff. 4.) Why the hell not? With...
On this date in 1886 Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum. And not even a hundred years later this material would be put to good use in the swamplands of central Florida. In the seventies it was common for men to wear their pants too tight...
