Not too many museums are named after doctors, or are located in old insane asylums, so you’d be crazy to not visit this next museum. Located in Belgium’s oldest psychiatric hospital (built in 1857), the Museum Dr Guislain in Ghent has been open to the public for almost thirty years....
One of my favourite museums in the world is the Pitt Rivers Museum, which I’ve written about before on this blog. Why? Because the place is like literally stepping back in time. It’s understandable that museums change and update themselves, but something is lost in the process. Fortunately, visitors can...
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’ve spent more than a few nights in a hotel room with my mommie dearest, so next time she wakes me up in the middle of the night, well, I know where I’ll be sending her…on the next flight to Germany to take a nap in the Museum of Snoring....
Have a thing for parasites? Well, go visit the world’s only Parasite Museum next time you’re in Tokyo, Japan. The Meguro Parasite Museum explains the parasite/host relationship as it applies to all creatures on earth, like in the picture above, which is a dolphin’s stomach. Ready to eat some lunch?
The Museum of Drinking Water in Taipei, Taiwan is located in a historic pumping station by the Xindian River. Believe it or not, there’s even a Tap Water Museum out there too! Does this mean the United States will one day open a Plastic Water Bottle Museum? Stay tuned to...
I went to a baby shower yesterday. I think I’d rather have gone to a museum. Seen at the History of Medicine Museum, Paris.
I don’t know about you, but a talking transparent anatomical mannequin gives me the heebie jeebies. But maybe some of you feel differently, so let me introduce you to Valeda III, who has been on display at the Kansas Learning Center for Health since 1965. Yes, this “woman” has been...
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m a bit fascinated with weird body stuff, which many museums are happy to display for sick and twisted people like me. At the Royal College of Surgeons in London, the Hunterian Museum displays an actual rectum cut from the corpse of the Bishop of...
HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! Groundhog Skeleton, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC
