I saw the excellent film Hugo last weekend (also an excellent book, by the way) and the main character’s ability to fix clocks and other mechanisms got me thinking. I began to wonder if there was a museum out there similar to what I saw in the movie. In the...
I know this next story isn’t about a real museum, but I feel a kinship with the crazy collectors out there. Not that I collect, mind you, I’m just crazy. Royalist Margaret Tyler plans to camp out overnight for Prince Willie and Princess Katie’s big wedding day on April 29th,...
Once upon a time I visited Shropshire to see the town of Shrewsbury, but apparently there’s not much else going on as it is England’s most rural and sparsely populated county. That might explain why the Land of Lost Content Museum exists there, like a place time has literally forgotten....
By the way, there is a National Presidents Wax Museum next to Mount Rushmore. While you’re there, you can eat lunch at the Executive Order Grill, play mini-golf at the Holy Terror and wonder why the hell you’re in South Dakota.
Located in People’s Square, Shanghai, the Urban Planning museum displays the city’s urban planning and development as well as its history. The centerpiece is a scale model depicting Shanghai circa 2020. Every single building (at least every planned one) in China’s most populated city can be viewed alongside or from...
The Egged Museum of Passengers Traffic in Holon, Israel “presents more than 60 buses that have been lovingly collected, built and renovated, and which reflect nearly seventy years of public transport in Eretz Israel. A visit…reveals…the history of public transportation, beginning with British Army surplus trucks that were converted into...
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.
This is basically just part 2 (or a photo dump post) from a July visit to Obscura Antiques & Oddities in New York City’s East Village, which is also a television show on the Discovery Channel. I’m sure some of you guys have seen it. If you’re huge fans, then...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology, Manchester, England, 1831. Science Museum, London Phrenology originated with German physician Franz Joseph Gall with assistance from his colleague, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain and skull determined personality. These heads are...
On this date in 1973 a bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden turned into a five-day hostage crisis. During that time the hostages began to sympathize with their captors, leading to the psychological condition known as “Stockholm syndrome”, coined by psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the...
One of the most interesting museums out there right now, specifically for its dedication to preserving the neon signs that existed in a town that does not believe in the past, yet helped to define it. Right now the Neon Museum is open sporadically for “boneyard” tours.
Apparently there’s a blizzard in the Northeast United States, and people are making a big deal about it because I guess it’s not supposed to snow in winter or something. They are calling it Juno. Anyway, while some of you are stuck in your homes watching reruns and eating Doritos,...
