We’ve covered clocks once before and of course lots and lots of booze (the mini bottle museum is my particular favourite), but unfortunately there isn’t a museum out there that has timepieces made of liquor or alcoholic glittery balls. Someone needs to make this happen. I guess we will just...
Postcard from the Museum of Funeral Customs: “The practice of preparing the body at a funeral home’s embalming room and conducting funeral service there, rather than at the home, became more popular starting in the 1920s. The Museum of Funeral Customs is located at 1440 Monument Avenue, next to Abraham...
DEAD BIRD MUSEUM Verso: “Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Kauffman in the lobby of the Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kansas. The entire museum is a reflection of the Kauffmans, creators and directors of the museum.” The Kauffmans’ original collection is now part of a greatly enlarged Kauffman Museum that is...
This 1950s photograph shows the Cyclorama of Jerusalem, which has been on display in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec since 1895. The place has a long and interesting history. One of the world’s largest circular paintings at 14 meters in height and 110 meters in circumference, the work was created by the...
The Wooden Nickel Historical Museum in San Antonio, Texas has the world’s oldest as well as the world’s largest wooden nickels - 13 feet, 4 inches in diameter and weighing 2,500 pounds. Wooden nickels were most commonly issued in the U.S. in the 1930s after the Great Depression. If you...
Our first visit to the country of Cyprus, I think. The Von World Pens Hall is a museum dedicated to…yeah, you’ll never guess…the history of pens. In the Internet age, actual writing instruments are slowly disappearing from our lives. If you’re not a student forced to practice cursive or take...
This next one isn’t necessarily a museum, but it’s definitely an interesting historical place to visit if you ever find yourself in Urbania, Italy. Well, it’s, like, the only attraction in town but don’t let that stop you. Since 1833, eighteen mummies from the Medieval period stand in individual glass...
Tom Copper’s exhibit at the Obsolete Computer Museum? This about sums it up: “My crappy host lost the database that powered the Museum. I’ve reverted back to the old static site. In case it isn’t obvious, the Obsolete Computer Museum is, itself, obsolete. Enjoy is as a chunk of history.”
Apparently the Marx Toy Museum in Moundsville, West Virginia has nothing to do with Karl Marx, which might be disappointing for someone like Rush Limbaugh (or maybe not?). It is actually named after Louis Marx, who founded the toy manufacturing company in 1919 until it officially went bankrupt in 1980....
Some of the world’s first museums opened as outdoor recreations of the past. King Oscar II’s collection of ten buildings showing the evolution of traditional Norwegian building types was the world’s first open-air museum when it opened in 1881. It still exists in pretty much the same form as part...
