I mentioned a Russian museum yesterday, so I thought I’d share something somewhat related. Last year there was a Russian Criminal Tattoo exhibit by Fuel Design in London. It included 120 original drawings by Danzig Baldaev, a prison guard from 1948 to 1986, who documented the art and meanings of...
Elvis is alive and well and lives at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland.
If you have a thing for toilets (and who doesn’t?), then you’re in luck. There is another lavatory-related museum to add to the list. We’ve told you about the Toilet Seat Art Museum, Munich’s Chamber Pot Museum, and let’s not forget the late, great Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue. But...
On this date in 1692 the famous Salem witch trials executed five people, one woman and four men, who were convicted of witchcraft (even though that’s open to debate…let’s ask Christine O'Donnell for her expert opinion). The accusations continued into the next month as eight more people were hanged. What’s...
We have covered the Mütter Museum before on the blog. In case you didn’t already know, it is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The museum started in 1858 with the medical research collection of Dr. Thomas Mütter. Known for oddities, specimens, wax models, and antique medical instruments,...
Label: Matreoschkas (a common name for a Russian woman). Its history is linked with S. Malyutin, a famous designer from the Talshkino circle. His designs gave rise to the first painted, lathe-turned wood doll in 1890s. Pollock’s Toy Museum takes its name from Benjamin Pollock, the last of the Victorian...
Years ago I went to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Yorkshire is a beautiful place, yet the atmosphere at their house is bleak as the family lived in the middle of a graveyard. If you like reading Jane Austen, then this place isn’t for you. Cheers!
Postcard of the Midget Museum in Blackpool, England. In case you didn’t know, Blackpool is a seaside resort town full of tourist crap. Nowadays it’s politically incorrect to call a little person a midget. Just remember that. Please. I don’t want to get you in trouble.
In a world of phonies it is more than appropriate that a museum near Cologne, Germany celebrates the world of counterfeit goods. Located in a converted railway station the Museum Plagiarius has a permanent collection of 300 products next to their identical rip-offs. Where does this all come from, you...
Since I was a kid, I’ve had this dream that one day I would be able to open my stomach and remove all the insides like a game of Operation gone wrong. It appears that at London’s Wellcome Collection this dream has become a reality. Well, at least it’s real...
Death Mask of Dolly the cloned sheep (1996-2003)National Museum of Scotland
There are postcard collections, and then there’s a collection so specific you can’t believe it exists. But it makes sense the Donald McGill Seaside Postcard Museum is around when you consider that seaside resorts and hotels became a popular tourist destination in Britain at the end of the 19th century....
