The Accordion Museum in Montmagny, Canada traces the history of the accordion and its influence on Quebec culture through instruments, photos and recordings. Asia is also well represented with instruments that show the use of the free reed (call them ancient ancestors of the accordion) that date back over 4,000...
Paradise Garden is recognized by art historians, art museums, art critics, government agencies, and preservationists as an exceptional example of a largely intact 20th century outsider art environment. It showcases the life’s work of renowned artist and preacher Howard Finster, a self proclaimed “Man of Visions,” who would later create...
This attraction, highlighted by one of my favourites atlasobscura (and I still owe them a guest post, but life is busy and I honestly don’t know what to write about…any ideas?), is a little spooky, even though it is just an exhibit, because it is literally underground. It’s part of...
We continue our guest posts with a visit to a funeral museum, which isn’t unusual for this blog as some of you well know. This Belongs in a Museum has taken you to Toland-Herzig Funeral Home’s Famous Endings Museum, Austria's Undertakers’ Museum, the now closed Museum of Funeral Customs, the...
Aug 10 in 1793, the Musée du Louvre (otherwise known as “Hey, let’s go to that Louv-ra place”, said by some American tourist) officially opened in Paris, becoming one of the world’s first museums. This tumblr likes weird things, so instead of focusing on the real Louvre like everyone else,...
Jan 27, known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. One of the most memorable museum experiences I had on a trip to Berlin five years ago was visiting the Jewish Museum. Over the last twenty years there...
Affecting humans for 4,000 years, leprosy is not a pretty sight. St. Jorgen’s Hospital in Norway is one of world’s oldest medical institutions, establishing itself in the Middle Ages to treat lepers. Between 1850 and 1900 Bergen was the international capital of leprosy, with three hospitals and the largest concentration...
I can’t think of a better way to honor the 98th anniversary of the place where World War I got started (besides listening to a Franz Ferdinand song of course) then with a visit to the Museum of Sarajevo 1878-1918 (or as I like to call it the Museum of...
“The Last Taxidermist in Paris” was an article from the January 1985 issue of World of Interiors magazine about Deyrolle, the historic taxidermy shop and natural history emporium. Founded in 1831 by well-known entomologist Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle (and later run by his grandson Émile Deyrolle) the shop was home to a...
Some people have bad body odour and can pass it along like a bad virus. Remember when Kramer said to Jerry in “The Smelly Car” episode of Seinfeld, “You stink!” Well, that’s not true at our next museum, the Museu del Perfum in Barcelona, where any foul smells are overpowered...
