Considering the great number of “spam” followers and likes I’ve been receiving lately, I thought it would only be appropriate to post something on the SPAM Museum. Located at the Hormel headquarters in Austin, Minnesota, the museum is dedicated to everything mystery meat…from a towering wall of 3,390 SPAM cans...
Happy June! We’ve been to Prague before with the Sex Machines Museum and Prague Castle Toy Collection, but this time we have something teeny-tiny for you. The Museum of Miniatures displays the dedicated (and some would say patient) work of Siberian artist Anatoly Konenko. He has managed to create as...
My least favourite time of year is coming to an end. Yes, I am talking about the holiday season, and by holiday I mean all the American celebrations associated with November and December, like Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Chanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s etc. And I’m not using the word holiday to...
Even though Tuesday’s post on LBJ wasn’t too popular, I guess this week’s theme continues with another presidential museum. Yesterday I was watching the evening news because I am 75 years old, and to my surprise they were talking about a weird museum. How exciting! Since 1965 a small bank...
An eclectic shop/museum supposedly established in 1967 by a Portland (Oregon) explorer named Conrad Talmadge Elwood whose love for all things weird caused him to have a dream of the store (which he promptly forgot) is not a new sketch from the tv show Portlandia. The store is actually real,...
Who wants to go see a museum that will see you back? The Musée des Lunettes et Lorgnettes is an Eyeglass Museum in Paris created by sixties avant-garde optician Pierre Marly. Remember the oversized sunglasses that Jackie Onassis wore? Well, he designed those thingamajigs. The museum displays 3,000 objects, including...
To the nearly 100,000 strangers who “read” this blog (besides the 2 or 3 people I know in real life, you know, that thing that exists outside the internet) I have something to share with you - I LOVE COWS! I am so obsessed I even have a cow tattoo....
Sorry for all the public art lately, but hey, it’s October and there’s a lot of scary stuff out there. Like the Mifletzet, for example, which literally means “the monster” in Hebrew. At first, the Jerusalem Parks Commission rejected artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s sculpture (originally known as “The Golem”)...
If you’re looking for a museum-related holiday item to give as a gift this year, some museums offer ‘adoptions’, such as the Natural History Museum in Berlin which is looking for ‘godparents’ to sponsor new drawers for their insect collection, or the British Library’s Adopt A Book scheme. Several North...
Say this next museum’s name ten times fast. The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum. Yep, that’s a name. Erika Nelson, the creator of this museum on wheels, takes pictures of the world’s largest things (ketchup bottle, shoe,...
