It may be April Fools’ Day and Palm Sunday, but did you also know today is the 121st anniversary of the Wrigley Company’s founding? William Wrigley originally sold soap and baking powder with a package of gum attached to each can, but the gum became so popular he switched products....
Six years ago I was living in Britain where I spent Thanksgiving Day attending a museum conference in Liverpool. Most of it took place in the former Transatlantic Slavery Gallery (now the International Slavery Museum). A very powerful place but I was put on the spot by a random Canadian...
Figure of Yanluo Wang, King of Hell Dated to 1523 AD, Ming Dynasty Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Today would have been George Harrison’s 70th birthday if he was still with us. So what better way to honour it than with this random photo from the Czech Museum of Music. A few years ago the museum had a special exhibit full of Beatles memorabilia, including wax models of...
Midan El-Tahrir and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, c1975. Egyptian postcard, photo and copyright reserved by Lehnert & Landrock, K. Lambelet & Co., Cairo.
If I hadn’t wanted to get rid of the Firefox browser on my computer before, then I definitely do now. Why? Because I was nearly finished with a post about another crazy museum and…CRASH…that shit died and went straight to interwebs heaven, never to be seen or heard from again....
Okay, if this next one doesn’t creep you out, then something must clearly be wrong with you. Along Highway 5 outside of Suomussalmi, Finland, thousands of scarecrow-like figures stand quietly in a field. “The Silent People” created by artist Reijo Kela in 1988, are simple wooden bodies made up of...
LOOK! DINOSAUR TRACKS! Hitchcock Ichnology Collection Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (taken Aug. 17, 2013) Several pictures I took while wandering around the Beneski Museum of Natural History. (more to come later!) These pictures are of slabs that caught my eye in the Hitchcock Ichnology Collection,...
The 15th of January, is National Hat Day, so make sure to cover your head with something, preferably a hat. Speaking of coverage, the blog has only paid a visit to one hat museum before, specifically Hat Works in Stockport, England. But there are a lot of hat museums out...
A Dog Collar Museum spanning five centuries from Medieval Times (no, not the restaurant) to the Victorian Era can be found at Leeds Castle in Kent. Some would say this is pointless and somewhat ridiculous, but it can be really interesting to learn the history of a particular object through...
In the small town of Wykoff, Minnesota there is place called Ed’s Museum. No, not that Ed, the other Ed. You know, Edwin “Ed” Julius Krueger, the owner of the Jack Sprat Food Store, who for more than half of his life on this planet never bothered to throw anything...
If anyone can remember as far back as July, I went on a short trip to New York City. A few of you recommended a visit to Obscura Antiques & Oddities, which is also a television show on the Discovery Channel (I’ve seen, like, one episode at a friend’s house...
