The tumblr for the Hunterian Museum in London posts sketches and artwork that people have done while hunched over in a corner. Kind of cool! 3476 A foetal porcupine at the end of it’s uterine development.3426 Fully developed embryonic gosling dissected to show the course of the umbilical veins.P1538 The...
Years ago when I studied to become a museologist, I learned all about Cabinets of Curiosities or Cabinets of Wonder, precursors to today’s museum. Viktor Wynd, curator and proprietor of The Little Shop of Horrors in London’s East End, was curious “to see how a contemporary wunderkammer might look”. So...
HAPPY NATIONAL DOG DAY! Aug 26 is all about dogs, so let’s look back at some of the dog-related museums and attractions featured on the blog over the years: Remember they say there’s a museum for everything! The Dog Collar Museum at Leeds Castle has a fascinating collection of 130...
On this date in 1863 West Virginia became the 35th state of the United States when it separated from Virgina during the American Civil War. I didn’t know a state can divorce itself. Something we tells me one day my home state of Illinois will do this one day. Speaking...
Ever wish a museum was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Well, if you’re a resident of New York City, I have news for you…you’re in luck. Built into an abandoned freight elevator and accessible only down a dark alley, the museum is simply called Museum (how...
This has probably been the fastest March I’ve ever lived through in my life. The more time you waste, the more you lose…or something like that. Anyway, I’m sure time moves pretty slow in Spillville, Iowa. It’s home to the Bily Clocks Museum, an old brick building dedicated to the...
We’ve covered small museums here before…you might recall Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, Edgar’s Closet or even the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum. In the 1970s Swiss artist Herbert Distel worked on his Schubladenmuseum (Museum of Drawers), a collection...
Dolls scare the shit out of me, especially when I know they’re sitting all day in a museum doing nothing but staring back at people. At the Brighton Toy and Model Museum, in the former forecourt of the railway station, there are over 10,000 antique toys on display, including these...
One of my closest friends is a Monopoly collector. She has like a gazillion versions of the game, including vintage and digital ones. I remember when we were walking down the Strip with a “Las Vegas” version in our possession. Some random dude yelled at us, “Hey, what are you...
A taphophile is someone who loves cemeteries and funerals, which is completely different from necrophilia, a sexual attraction to corpses. Did you know there is a law in Egypt called “Jamaa-ul-Widaa” (“Farewell Intercourse”) in which men can have sex with their dead wives up to six hours after their death?...
When it comes to house museums, there will always be the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, like The Breakers, or a place where Abraham Lincoln once slept, like the Soldiers’ Home, but what about the buildings not connected with the rich and famous? What about the houses that should be...
On this date in 1966 the Beatles performed their final full concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Beatlemania swept the world in the 1960s, and it still continues to this day. If you’re a Beatles fan, you’d expect to see the band in bronze form in their hometown of...
