Museum of Science in Boston
Why not enjoy this old picture of a dinosaur being delivered by helicopter to the Museum of Science in Boston (shit’s been reblogged thousands of times so what’s wrong with a few more?). Photo
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Interior of the Field Museum
Interior of the Field Museum, c.1919. And Interior of the Field Museum, c.2011.
What, exactly, does a museologist do?
Sarcastic answer: A bunch of academics looking to come up with an excuse to not have to go out into the real world created another bullshit program that would let them write more dissertations no one would read. Shit like “Curating Cities as Text: Contesting Art using Literary Narrative, Visual...
How to Say “museum” in Sign Language
A scan of both sides of a flash card illustrating how to say “museum” in sign language. This 1979 card set, which was scavenged from a dumpster at the Art Institute of Chicago about ten years ago, features an enjoyable collection of rudimentary drawings that attempt to convey the most...
Museo della Frutta in Turin, Italy
At Museo della Frutta in Turin, Italy, the pomological collection by Francesco Garnier Valletti consists of thousands of varieties of apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, grapes…and oranges. Pomology is the study and cultivation of fruit. The museum not only has a couple of pomological collection rooms, but also reconstructions of...
Loretta Lynn’s The Pill Museum in Cleveland, Ohio
This next museum makes me want to listen to Loretta Lynn’s The Pill. The Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has America’s only birth control museum. Opened since 2005, the museum exhibit has 650 artifacts–ranging from beaver-testicle tea believed to prevent pregnancy to sheep...
Boston Children’s Hospital Museum Collection, Massachusetts
Sometimes children do things they shouldn’t do, like stick weird things up their nose or swallow non-food items. Believe it or not, there is a museum collection at Boston Children’s Hospital full of random stuff removed from young patients going all the way back to 1918. Pushpins tack the objects...
Marx generator, Moscow region, Russia
Hello, Obama! ;) I don’t know if this is creepy or cool or what…but it’s definitely not something you see on a daily basis, that’s for sure. Although some people might think it’s a Tesla coil, this machine, constructed in the 1970s by the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute, is actually...
Fort Worth Museum of Science And History, Texas
It's time to let you know about one more perfect place. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History first started out as the Fort Worth Children's Museum in 1941 on Summit Street. The building the current Fort Worth Museum is housed in opened in 2007. During this time, the...
El Museo De Las Momias or the Mummies’ Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico
The city of Guanajuato in central Mexico has a remarkable attraction: a mummy museum(not recommended for visitors who are faint of heart) featuring over one hundred mummies that were formed naturally in the local cemetery. The Guanajuato mummies were exhumed between 1865 and 1989. The mummies here formed naturally. The...
