Besides being a neighborhood in New Orleans, Saint Roch is also the name of a 19th century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts, crutches and other random offerings. Apparently Saint Roch is associated with the plague or something. The story goes that in 1867 as the yellow fever epidemic took...
Believe it or not, America’s only Einstein Museum is located at the back of a 97-year-old clothing store known for its woolen sweaters and tweed blazers. Among the fine lodens and cashmeres for sale in Landau’s on Nassau Street in Princeton is an exhibit full of reproduced photographs and documents,...
It may be April Fools’ Day and Palm Sunday, but did you also know today is the 121st anniversary of the Wrigley Company’s founding? William Wrigley originally sold soap and baking powder with a package of gum attached to each can, but the gum became so popular he switched products....
Six years ago I was living in Britain where I spent Thanksgiving Day attending a museum conference in Liverpool. Most of it took place in the former Transatlantic Slavery Gallery (now the International Slavery Museum). A very powerful place but I was put on the spot by a random Canadian...
Figure of Yanluo Wang, King of Hell Dated to 1523 AD, Ming Dynasty Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Today would have been George Harrison’s 70th birthday if he was still with us. So what better way to honour it than with this random photo from the Czech Museum of Music. A few years ago the museum had a special exhibit full of Beatles memorabilia, including wax models of...
Midan El-Tahrir and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, c1975. Egyptian postcard, photo and copyright reserved by Lehnert & Landrock, K. Lambelet & Co., Cairo.
If I hadn’t wanted to get rid of the Firefox browser on my computer before, then I definitely do now. Why? Because I was nearly finished with a post about another crazy museum and…CRASH…that shit died and went straight to interwebs heaven, never to be seen or heard from again....
LOOK! DINOSAUR TRACKS! Hitchcock Ichnology Collection Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (taken Aug. 17, 2013) Several pictures I took while wandering around the Beneski Museum of Natural History. (more to come later!) These pictures are of slabs that caught my eye in the Hitchcock Ichnology Collection,...
A Dog Collar Museum spanning five centuries from Medieval Times (no, not the restaurant) to the Victorian Era can be found at Leeds Castle in Kent. Some would say this is pointless and somewhat ridiculous, but it can be really interesting to learn the history of a particular object through...
