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...
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...
Imperial War Museum North In a building designed by world famous architect Daniel Libeskind, this branch of the Imperial War Museum explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society chronologically in six thematic displays. The walls of the gallery are used as screens for the projection of hourly...
Sep 15 marks the anniversary of the hate crime known as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. A monument commemorates the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama, while statues across the street honor the victims of the tragedy. The historic African-American church took a central role in the Civil...
Believe it or not, but the thousands of scarecrow-like figures that stand creepily in a field in Finland that I told you about last week have some competition in Latvia. Yes, a terrifying collection of figures stand randomly in the center of the historic wine-making town of Sabile. No one...
I bet you thought the dormouse was just a character in Alice in Wonderland and the Jefferson Aiplane song “White Rabbit”, but they are real animals. The Dormouse Hunting Museum is located next to Snežnik Castle in Cerknica, Slovenia. In this part of the world, dormice are believed to have...
Just when you think I’ve run out of tiny museums, I go and find another one. I’ve told you about the Grant Museum of Zoology’s Micarium, Edgar’s Closet, the micro-museum known as Mµseum, the Red Telephone Box Museum, Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, the “Smallest House in Great Britain” (which I personally...
Not only does the world have more than one museum dedicated to the kazoo, but several famous musicians have used the instrument in song. The Beatles, Wilco, Jimi Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Cheap Trick and Portishead…just to name a few. In case you don’t already know, a...
May 27 is Memorial Day in the U.S., which is supposed to be a time to remember Americans who have died while serving in the military, but ends up being more about weddings and BBQs, even though the weather is always rainy and crappy. I didn’t think there would be...
I know this next story isn’t about a real museum, but I feel a kinship with the crazy collectors out there. Not that I collect, mind you, I’m just crazy. Royalist Margaret Tyler plans to camp out overnight for Prince Willie and Princess Katie’s big wedding day on April 29th,...
