Not much different from your everyday fish market, the Kori no Suizokukan in Kesennuma, Japan, packs about 450 species of marine life frozen in large columns of ice bathed in blue light. It takes awhile for visitors to realize the specimens are not for sale, but are part of a...
I’m bringing back one of my favorite discoveries from this past year for American Guide Week. I personally paid a visit to Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop in Evanston, a town on the border of Chicago. After looking at all the various pieces of jewelry and crystal in the...
A new exhibit called “Soma” at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum allows visitors to sleep overnight amid 24 golden canaries and a dozen reindeer. “Guests can rent a single revolving bed in the middle of the reindeer herd for 1,000 euros ($1,363) per night. Businesswoman Maru Winnacker and her husband rented...
At Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History, there is a unique Glass Flowers collection, which includes nearly 4,000 models of over 800 different plant species. Professor George Goodale, founder of Harvard’s Botanical Museum, wanted to teach botany with life-like flowery creations instead of the crude wax models that were common...
As a museologist (meaning someone who has paid a lot of money to study museums) you’d think I’d call the Marsh’s Free Museum in Long Beach, WA a junky tourist trap. But I saw the same kind of stuff at several museums in the UK, which considered themselves to be...
Today is the 180th birthday of one Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Did you know he studied and taught at Oxford? Well, he spent so much time visiting the Museum of Natural History there that one of their objects may have influenced a character in Alice’s Adventures in...
With the exception of the horse-drawn delivery vehicles at the Thrasher Carriage Museum in Maryland and the sculpted wooden horses on display at the Museum of Fairground Art in Paris, the blog has not really paid much attention to the mammal known as the horse. Did you know there is...
Fifteen years ago today, Dolly the Sheep was born. Now stuffed and on display at the Edinburgh Museum, Dolly began her life at the Roslin Institute as a cell from a sheep donor’s mammary gland, hence the name. You might have heard of the famously busty country western singer Dolly...
It’s already tomorrow in Australia. Or maybe it’s tomorrow tomorrow. Did you know the land down under is home to over 150 BIG things? Most are tourist traps and roadside attractions, but it’s interesting nonetheless. I don’t know…it kind of makes me want to go to Australia now. Sculptor Ben...
These creepy crawlies got nothing on the thousands of dust mites that live in your pillowcase and bedsheets. Sweet dreams. Don’t let the bed bugs bite.
