If you’re like my uncle, then you’re probably watching the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story on TBS quoting lines before they’re even said while sitting next to a leg lamp. Did you know there is A Christmas Story House Museum where the movie was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio?...
Kodak Number 1, 1891 National Media Museum, England Kodak’s second camera was produced from 1889 to 1895. It “differs slightly from the original, featuring an easily removable lens board, and an improved sector shutter. The shutter was set by pulling a string and tripped by pressing a button on the...
This post isn’t about anything in particular (I mean it’s hardly museum-related) but I see it as my last chance to post some random cemetery photographs as October winds down. I knew the cremation rate was high in England and Wales (something like 75%) when I moved to Great Britain...
If you’re one of the lucky people who possesses a press pass, police and/or military badge, or just happens to know someone who knows someone, then you’ll be able to go inside Mexico City’s National Security building. What’s so exciting about a National Security building, you ask? Well, it’s the...
If you’ve been following this blog long enough, then you know I’m obsessed with pocket-sized museums (see here and here if you don’t believe me). So I’ve made the executive decision to declare August 8th through 12th “Tiny Museum Week” because why the hell not? Enjoy! In an itty bitty...
Look at all those books! If you have ever wanted to visit an ancient monastery reference library, then go to Austria right now. Just 12 miles from Linz, Saint Florian was consecrated in 1071, making it one of the oldest operational monasteries in the entire world. The library wing, added...
It always seems like this blog is trying to find the winner of the “World’s Tiniest Museum” - whether it’s the Red Telephone Box Museum or Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie or the Micro-Mµseum or the Hoosesagg Museum, there’s some stiff competition all over the world. Well, it looks like we might...
Yesterday I told you about an old church in southern Germany, and today we continue the theme with another old church, this time in the Czech Republic. Consecrated in 1352, Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) in Luková, Czech Republic had been neglected for more than forty years, partly because...
I bet you won’t be able to sleep tonight after seeing this clown automaton from the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Yes, it moves…it plays music…it’s a clown!
Like a hoarder who has banker boxes full of tax returns from thirty-years ago piled up to the ceiling, the F.A.S.T. Corporation just can’t let anything go. In the field behind their workshop in Sparta, Wisconsin are leftovers from almost every job they’ve ever done; the huge and colorful statues...
I just read on-line that a museum in Berlin, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, has a Vincent van Gogh art piece on display. But this isn’t a newly discovered painting by the Dutch master, no, this is a copy of his ear (you know, the one he famously...
Icelandic artist/farmer Samúel Jónsson (1884-1969) lived alone next to the nearly uninhabited valley of Selárdalur for most of his life. As someone who pretty much despises all human beings, this sounds like a dream come true. Lucky for me (if only I could afford air fare), Jónsson’s artwork is preserved...
