There are a lot of Communist-related museums out there from the Terror Háza Múzeum in Budapest to the Soviet Lifestyle Museum in Tatarstan. Well, you can add another one to the list, this time in Amsterdam of all places. It’s called the Totalitarian Art Gallery. One of the most expensive...
Once upon a time, there was a man named Arnold Schwarzenegger who became a famous bodybuilder turned action star turned California governor. In Graz, Austria there once existed a museum dedicated to this man. See, Schwarzenegger has a connection to Austria’s second city in that he went to school here...
For anyone following this blog long enough, well, you’ve probably noticed an obsession with miniature museums. From Zarifa Salahova’s collection of miniature edition books in Azerbaijan to the 105 models of historic buildings at Miniatürk we’ve covered a lot of small stuff. One day I hope to find out why...
Britain was once dotted with the iconic red telephone box. Every tourist had to pose for a photograph next to this instantly recognisable British thing. Due to privatisation and the rise of the mobile phone, the boxes are a dying breed, most are abandoned or sold off. A few years...
In the ever-expanding digital age, I have to wonder if kiddies still hang posters on their walls? Because I know I did, from the floorboards to the ceiling. Kind of creepy to think of those random celebrity faces staring back at me. Well, anyway this mass-produced “art form” of large...
Queen Elizabeth II watermark from her 1953 coronation Do you think in this paperless digital age that we should have a paper museum? Well, we do. Atlanta’s Robert C. Williams Paper Museum is the number one resource for learning about the history of paper and paper technology. There’s more than...
Edinburgh Museum of Childhood, Scotland “The Museum of Childhood collection was founded by Patrick Murray, a passionate collector of toys and childhood objects who was also an Edinburgh Town Councillor. Objects in the collection span the 18th to 21st centuries…with large collections of toys, games, crafts and hobby items, from...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin Royal Air Force Museum in Cosford, England
I recently reread In Cold Blood for the second time a few months ago, and I don’t care about the factual discrepancies and recreated dialogue, it’s a damn good book. So with the 1959 Clutter family murder on my mind, I wondered if there was a museum dedicated to the...
The Frank and Jane Clement Brick Museum in Buffalo, New York has a collection of, well, you guessed it…a ton of bricks. The museum isn’t one in the classic sense, but located in the Clement Family home in suburban Orchard Park. Their driveway features 12,000 “brand” bricks from across the...
