Wow! October is right around the corner, which can only mean one thing. It’s almost time for my annual attempt to highlight spooky museums and historic places, like the “Most Haunted House in Sweden” and Italy’s Serial Killer Museum for example. So in order to get you people ready for...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Every year during the month of October THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM attempts to highlight some Halloween-worthy museums and attractions. I hope you enjoyed learning about them. Maybe one day you will be able to visit Munich’s Asamkirche where a gilded skeleton sculpture tries to cut down an...
I don’t know if this scary or sad or both? A puppy, deformed from radiation due to a nuclear reactor gone wrong, is part of the exhibit on display at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum. I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since that horrible event happened.
If you ever find yourself in Waldsassen, Germany, make sure to stop by the basilica because this place is your macabre dream come true. The church contains ten reliquaries of richly dressed and bejeweled skeletons of Christian martyrs, the largest intact collection in all of Europe. Known as the “Holy...
Right outside Tokyo, in the town of Saitama, is a museum called the Hall of Curious Rocks. The museum’s founder was a rock collector for over fifty years. He was drawn to unusual and rare rocks. Ultimately his collection numbered over 1,700 stones, but what makes this museum so interesting...
I’ve decided to bring back an old post because 1.) I’m lazy. 2.) You’re lazy and I know many new readers are not going to read shit from 2 years ago. 3.) It’s Halloween so it’s time to focus on the scary, creepy stuff. 4.) Why the hell not? With...
On this date in 1886 Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum. And not even a hundred years later this material would be put to good use in the swamplands of central Florida. In the seventies it was common for men to wear their pants too tight...
“Welcome to Karosta Prison! Enjoy your stay!” Even though this blog covers museums dedicated to brains and wax and other spooky stuff on a regular basis, October brings you more scary posts like stuff about skeletons, witches, medical oddities and a religious attraction or two (I don’t know about you,...
If you like trees made out of buttons, then you must go to the American Folk Art Museum to see Chicago artist Gregory Warmack’s creation. Or better yet…make one yourself.
In case you were wondering, there is more than one museum devoted to the magic of buttons. I know, shocking, isn’t it? Dover, Ohio…Bishopville, South Carolina…Waterbury, Connecticut…Ross-on-Wye, England…the largest one is located in Rimini, Italy with over 50,000 buttons. Aren’t you glad that you know this?
