You’ve heard of the pop-up store and pop-up restaurant, but apparently the pop-up museum is also becoming a thing. The Museum of Feelings, located at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park, is a pop-up installation devoted to sights and smells. The idea of making emotions “touchable” is not new...
“Edgar Allan Poe (right), who spent time at the Academy of Natural Sciences doing research on mollusks; John Leidy, a young medical student (center); and Samuel George Morton, a physician and naturalist, at the Academy’s new building at Broad and Samson Streets in Philadelphia during the winter of 1842-43. This...
Today is the 180th birthday of one Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Did you know he studied and taught at Oxford? Well, he spent so much time visiting the Museum of Natural History there that one of their objects may have influenced a character in Alice’s Adventures in...
One of the many reasons why I’ll never have a baby… Seen at France’s largest Anatomy Museum, Musée Orfila at the Université Paris Descartes. Besides the Opération de la Cesarienne (wax model of Caesarean section), you’ll find thousands of other wax anatomical models, both human and animal. Um, aren’t humans...
Some vintage photographs of Hanukkah displays from the collection of the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
Since it started in 2006, the Sadness Museum has traveled to many places throughout the United States. Makes sense. Who really goes in search of sadness? It usually comes to you. It is the first museum of its kind where the so-called visitors are the curators. You can send “sad”...
As teenagers my one friend and I were a little bit strange (actually we still are) in that we came up with a monthly holiday known as “Stabbage Day” to celebrate her growing collection of stolen restaurant knives (mostly collected at the various ‘Golden’ establishments across Chicago). It was always...
I might have looked forward to eating lunch every day if my single mother, who happened to be an artist, had done this while I was growing up. But, you know, I guess she was too busy going to school, working three jobs, and shuffling me off to various babysitters...
If you have a chewing gum habit and ever wondered if there was a gum museum in existence, well, no need to continue keeping yourself up at night because there is one in Quartzsite, Arizona. Joanna’s Gum Museum is the personal gum collection of owner Joanne Brunett who has been...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled July 4th programming to honour another patriotic holiday, Canada Day. Nearly one-hundred years after the United States gained independence from the British, the Constitution Act of 1867 united three colonies into a single country called Canada (within the British Empire of course). When one thinks...
I don’t usually reblog random artwork, but I just love this idea: movie stars wearing Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. Also, it’s from my other tumblog, so I can’t help but share it with my other followers. Enjoy! Architect Frank Lloyd Wright surrounded by female icons wearing his buildings: Judy Garland...
For thousands of years a small town in Japan has grown lots and lots of rice, but it wasn’t until 1993 that the town turned the rice into public art. Seen as a clever way to draw in tourist revenue, the people of Inakadate started their project with a simple...
