One of my first posts on this blog was about famous death masks from museums around the world. But what I really want to know is where I can find the largest collection of death masks in, I don’t know, the Ukraine? Well, I’m in luck. At the One Street...
Not quite a museum, but more like a collection of some long dead hoarder, the World’s First (like there would be more than one?) Root Beer Saloon is a must-see if you like lots of stuff and are anywhere near Alto Pass, Illinois (highly unlikely, but you never know). Entering...
Thank you, stshank for taking this photo of a 19th century Nigerian headdress made of antelope skin. It is on display at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Not only is it terrifying, but it looks like something a member of the band Slipknot would wear.
After focusing on three museums in the United States, Christmas Museum Week now moves to the country of Japan. From 1994 to 2001, the Felissimo Christmas Museum operated in Hakkaido. It looks like the museum still has an on-line presence. What did I learn? That 1549 was the first recorded...
I still have nightmares from living in that one apartment with all the cockroaches, so I don’t think I’ll be visiting the Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum in Plano, Texas anytime soon. Here you see Michael Bodhan, who must be both equally creative and insane. After all, not everyone can...
Are you wondering what to do with all your adapters? Problem solved. Send them to Frank Grießhammer, who has a growing collection of adapters. Check out his Adapter Museum, online of course.
Let me tell you about the Avanos Hair Museum in Cappadocia, Turkey. It was started by a local potter. His friend was leaving town, she cut a lock of her hair for him to keep and now women show up at his pottery studio to leave locks of hair. The...
Inside an antique mall in Japan (with a whole lot of identical dog statues on the roof) is the Kurashiki Piggy Bank Museum. I remember having a piggy bank as a kid. I believe it was actually a pig and didn’t have much money in it, to be honest. And...
A garden gnome, hereafter known as the Divorce Day Mad Dwarf, was hurled in fury at a windscreen of a new car in Ljubljana, Slovenia over 20 years ago. It’s part of the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. The museum encourages people to keep hold of the mementos...
As a child of the 1980s I have plenty of experience with all the toys from that time period. Hey, I even remember having a picture of Boy George in my Cabbage Patch Doll wallet. Wait…what? Yeah, I know. What 4 year old needs to carry cash? CRAZY! Did you...
