Anyone following this blog for the last three years has probably noticed my obsession with teeny tiny things. FromPrague’s Museum of Miniatures to Zarifa Salahova’s collection of miniature edition books in Azerbaijan, we’ve seen a lot of small stuff from all over the world. Well, there’s another museum to add...
Which Came First? (After Haim Steinbach), 2010, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center So what is it…Peeps or Cadbury Eggs?
There are art museums and there are car museums. But what about an art car museum? Even though a light rail system opened about a decade ago, Houston has always loved automobiles of all kinds, largely due to the lack of real public transportation and urban sprawl in this Texan...
On this date in 1973 a bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden turned into a five-day hostage crisis. During that time the hostages began to sympathize with their captors, leading to the psychological condition known as “Stockholm syndrome”, coined by psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the...
One of the most interesting museums out there right now, specifically for its dedication to preserving the neon signs that existed in a town that does not believe in the past, yet helped to define it. Right now the Neon Museum is open sporadically for “boneyard” tours.
Open since 1966, the Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum is the longest-running Halloween-ish museum in the United States. It is only open during the month of October. The brainchild of Bristol, Connecticut native Cortlandt Hull (who was literally a child when he opened this place), the museum is housed in...
If I had to take a guess, I’d assume this next museum is a personal favourite of the Chicken Lady. Once located in the centre of Seoul, the Museum of Chicken Art has now moved to northern Gyeonggi-do as the Maniker Museum of Chicken Art. If you’re wondering if it...
In honor of the London Olympic Games, with its official opening ceremony, let me tell you about the World’s First Sand Sculpture Museum that has been built in Japan. What does 100,000 years of accumulation of rock and mineral particles over 323 acres, the largest such dune in Japan, have...
If you’re into signs (and I mean who isn’t?) then make sure you go to Lynchville, Maine where a very popular destination has been located for over 50 years. Numerous road-trippers and tourists like to pose for an old school photo-op next to the ‘World Traveler’ sign. Though the big...
We end our guest posts as we began nearly two weeks ago with a piece written by artist and writer Dmitry Samarov (check out his artwork, his book, his other writings, his twitter). We’re back in Wisconsin (just like we were yesterday…sorry for the focus on the American Midwest but...
