If anyone remembers this month’s only post, I am taking a little bit of a break. But I can’t let go of my annual tradition of creepy, scary museums and attractions (see October 2012 and October 2011 in the archive if you have nothing better to do with your time)....
Gläserne Mensch (Glass Man) - the first transparent human model complete with bones, muscles and arteries. Dresden’s Deutsche Hygiene-Museum was founded in 1911 by mouthwash magnate Dr. Karl August Lingner to have ignorant people better understand their own health. The permanent exhibits revolve around aspects of the human being: scientific...
First of all, it takes a brave man to want to read a leaflet by Miss Deb, let alone a mid-century mother and her young daughter. In the 1960s, Kotex promoted menstrual pads for young girls with the marketing idea to catch them while they’re young. “Deb” stood for young...
Apparently the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus hit shelves today, giving purpose to the lives of people who have enough free time to sleep outside an Apple store. I love Apple products, like I would die for my still-functioning 6-year-old iMac, but when it comes to phones I’m more...
As this tumblr nears its 6,000th follower, let’s think back to all the museums we’ve visited (technologically so to speak) from around the world. Okay, finished thinking? Wait, what? I asked you to think. I know, I know. Something is clearly wrong with me. What’s going through your head right...
If you’re still crying over the death of Cecil the Lion, well, then this next one might leave you in tears of confusion. Yes, inside a Hasidic Rabbi’s house in Brooklyn’s Borough Park is a taxidermy museum called Torah Animal World. Every animal mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Talmud...
If I told you I haven’t been to the dentist in a long ass time, will you hate me and send me to Gingivitis Hell. Or should we just tell dumb British bad teeth jokes? Anyway, there’s a better chance of me visiting the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore...
Literally in the middle of nowhere Argentina (actually in a town called Nono) is the Rocsen Museum, a “multi-faceted” collection of 23,000 artifacts from every aspect of human life. The collection was started by Juan Santiago Bouchon, originally from France, who was determined to not only acquire archaeological and anthropological...
In case you don’t know, cryptozoology means the “study of hidden animals”, such as legendary or nonexistent ones. Dinosaurs, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster come to mind. Check out the International Museum of Cryptozoology next time you’re in Portland, Maine.
In case you’ve never heard of a magic lantern, let me tell you. That’s why I’m here. The earliest known slide projector, Laterna Magica as it is sometimes called, dates all the way back to the seventeenth century when a German Jesuit first wrote about directing a light through a...
