National Museum of Scotland
Death Mask of Dolly the cloned sheep (1996-2003)National Museum of Scotland
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Esperanto Museum in Vienna, Austria
Did you know there’s a language for everyone? Well, sort of. Since the 16th century people like Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz have tried to come up with constructed languages. Supposedly there are 500 so-called planned languages, but the most important one is Esperanto, which was invented...
Mummified Cherchen Man – Xinjiang Regional Museum, Urumqi, China
Mummified Cherchen Man - Xinjiang Regional Museum, Urumqi, China “Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man’s hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he stood six feet tall,...
National Media Museum in Bradford
Sorry for today’s late post. I’m sure it’s already tomorrow for most of you out there in the world. If anyone knows a good deal on a body transplant, please let me know. No, seriously. I can’t even begin to describe how awful my insides feel right now, so I...
Icelandic Phallological Museum, Reykjavík
Don't miss this, great dicks everywhere! Start from tiny penis to incredibly enormous dick, from fish to fowl and over! It's really one of those things you simply have to do, and particularly if you have an adequate sense of humor or are simply interested in male anatomy. The Icelandic...
Hunterian Museum in London
The tumblr for the Hunterian Museum in London posts sketches and artwork that people have done while hunched over in a corner. Kind of cool! 3476 A foetal porcupine at the end of it’s uterine development.3426 Fully developed embryonic gosling dissected to show the course of the umbilical veins.P1538 The...
Pest House Medical Museum
A taphophile is someone who loves cemeteries and funerals, which is completely different from necrophilia, a sexual attraction to corpses. Did you know there is a law in Egypt called “Jamaa-ul-Widaa” (“Farewell Intercourse”) in which men can have sex with their dead wives up to six hours after their death?...
Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
Formerly known as the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy is a must-see for science nerds everywhere. There are over a thousand objects, including globes, barometers and microscopes from the last five centuries. But the most interesting part of the museum is...
“Hand of Glory” at the Whitby Museum
Even though I’ve been to Whitby, I’m sad to say I have never seen the “Hand of Glory”. On display at the Whitby Museum (it’s even on the freakin’ entrance sign), this mummified severed human hand was discovered hidden in the wall of a nearby thatched cottage over a hundred...
Betty and Barney Hill Archive at USNH
Betty and Barney Hill claimed a mysterious UFO’s extraterrestrial crew accosted, kidnapped, examined and released them in rural New Hampshire. Known as the Hill Abduction, it was the first ever widely-publicized claim of alien abduction. Whether you believe in aliens or not, it is a fact that Betty Hill’s notes,...
