Considering yesterday’s post went over so well (sarcasm) I am more than happy to remove “the toilet” from my list of museums to cover on this blog. On this last day of August let’s forget about sanitation devices for a moment and turn to the oh-so important topic of frogs....
At This Belongs In A Museum, we’re no strangers to outsider art collections, especially when it comes to sculpture. Whether it’s Wisconsin’s Mary Nohl House or India’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh, we’ve got it covered. So here’s another one to add to the list of 1000 places you will probably...
Everyone knows not to drink the mini bottles from the hotel fridge, but if you have a fetish for the stuff then maybe you should check out the World’s Only Mini Bottle Museum in Oslo, Norway. Just as long as you promise not to steal any, even though there are...
We’ve covered Outsider Art many (did I say MANY???) times before on the ol’ blogamajig, from the House of Dreams and Fred Smith’s Concrete Park to the Italian American Artistic Museum and African Village in America. Basically non-artists find stuff and turn the crap into art, just like at Wade’s...
Think you’re in need of a nose job? Wonder how many noses it takes to build a nose museum? Well, hundreds of schnozzes live on in Sweden. Housed in the Museum of Student Life at Lund University, the Nose Academy (could there be any other name?), managed by a Nasal...
I read Interview with a Vampire as a teenager and I’ll admit that I watch True Blood (it’s like a soap opera, but with vampires and shit) but I’ve never been into the whole cult of mythological blood-sucking creatures. But that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in paying a visit...
Nothing says Thanksgiving quite like a neon turkey. Gozzi’s Turkey Farm in Guilford, Connecticut has been open for over fifty years and at its peak in the 1970s sold more than 150,000 turkeys a year. Although today the farm is very small as it has to compete with the big-name...
I know the middle of December isn’t the best time to share camping stories, but I say why the hell not? A few times a year my friends and I drove up to the Wisconsin Woods, usually in April and October. We liked to do it old school style hanging...
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.
If you find yourself either attending Michigan State University in East Lansing or paying a visit to the Abrams Planetarium on the campus, make sure to stop by the office of the Planetarium’s production coordinator, John French. Two of his big bookshelves are officially known as the Moist Towelette Museum....
