Feb 12 is the birthday of naturalist Charles Darwin. I believe he would be 206 years old…otherwise known as dead. I am lucky to have visited both his birthplace of Shrewsbury (where there is a statue of course) and Westminster Abbey, where he is buried in the north aisle of...
The Brighton Toy and Model Museum is located under the early Victorian arches that support the forecourt of the 1841 railway station in…you guessed it…Brighton, England. The space, originally used to store beer barrels for a brewery, is supposedly haunted. Maybe the ghosts are upset that their pints have been...
Like most people, I absolutely detest anything to do with spiders. But Anne Bradshaw Clopton was a bit different. In 1889 at 11 years old, Clopton discovered a magazine article about a German artist who used gossamer, or extremely fine spider silk, as his canvas. Clopton decided to give it...
This house might look innocent enough, but it’s actually one of the most haunted places in Sweden. This humble abode, located in Borgvattnet Jämtland, is actually a vicarage built in 1876. The first report of hauntings began in 1927 when the resident chaplain Nils Hedlund wrote a letter noting the...
For three years photographer Simone Rosenbauer traveled throughout rural Australia and documented 41 quirky and tiny museums and their caretakers for a series called Small Museum. The House of Bottles was built by Joseph Eykenbaum in 1969 after he spent two years collecting 13,569 bottles to use in the construction...
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....
Ever wish a museum was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Well, if you’re a resident of New York City, I have news for you…you’re in luck. Built into an abandoned freight elevator and accessible only down a dark alley, the museum is simply called Museum (how...
This has probably been the fastest March I’ve ever lived through in my life. The more time you waste, the more you lose…or something like that. Anyway, I’m sure time moves pretty slow in Spillville, Iowa. It’s home to the Bily Clocks Museum, an old brick building dedicated to the...
When it comes to house museums, there will always be the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, like The Breakers, or a place where Abraham Lincoln once slept, like the Soldiers’ Home, but what about the buildings not connected with the rich and famous? What about the houses that should be...
After you study and analyse museums intensely for over a year, visiting them on a nearly daily basis, there is nothing that leaves a significant impression in your mind. You feel like you’ve seen it all. Most of the time you’re just plain bored. But that all changed for me...
