When I visited a friend in Berlin over two years ago, I really really really wanted to go to Dresden and Leipzig and Dessau…and the list goes on and on. Thank goodness I have no pennies in my pocket, and my travel itch has been temporarily solved by this blog,...
It looks like Edgar’s Closet had some competition for the “World’s Smallest Museum” title with a dead French composer named Erik. Not much bigger than Edgar Allan Poe’s closet, Erik Satie’s teeny tiny one room apartment in Paris was once a museum (it now appears to be closed…or at least...
Most people agree…nothing is scarier than a clown. Just imagine living with Ortud Kastaun, “Orty” to friends, who has a collection of over 2,000 clown-related items. It look fifteen years, but she now holds the the Guinness World Record for “Largest Collection of Clowns”. It all started when Kastaun was...
After yesterday’s visit to Barcelona, we now travel to another part of the world with a guest post written by shuraiya, one of my earliest followers on tumblr. I always notice and appreciate every one of her likes, reblogs, and replies so I am more than happy that she has...
Even though the internet has slowly tied its noose around our collective necks, it is important to learn about the history of this soul-crushing global system invented by Al Gore. If you care to brush up on topics like the first piece of spam ever sent, that gifs haven’t changed...
My grandfather had perfect eyesight until the day he died, unfortunately he did not pass that gene to me as I’ve recently had to start wearing glasses. Oh well. It’s not the end of the world. I can still see the Stichting Nationaal Brilmuseum, or the National Museum of Spectacles,...
Every year the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has a Day of the Dead exhibit. The only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it has the country’s largest Mexican art collection. So it’s fitting the museum also has one of the biggest displays of Día...
This might come as a surprise but the Accordion Museum in Canada I once told you about is not the world’s only accordion museum. There are actually several in existence. Because apparently the world needs as many accordion museums as humanly possible. Or should I say musically possible? The New...
My grandfather was a bit of a hoarder, but it never got too out of hand as he managed to keep most of his stuff down in the basement. Considering I lived with them, I have strong memories of a bunch of cast iron thingamajigs down there, so I’m sure...
Uncle Remus Museum.Yes, this place does indeed exist. Located in the small town of Eatonton in Georgia, the museum, open since 1963, is actually a complex of three original slave cabins. Inside visitors can find Uncle Remus-related memorabilia, artifacts, collector items, and shadow boxes containing scenes from the stories. In...
