Once upon a time I told you guys about the Paint By Number Museum, an online archive of over 6,000 paint by number artworks dating back to the 1950s. In 2008 a private collector in Massachusetts began buying pieces from eBay and other American collectors to create his archive. In...
On the 71st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack let me tell you about another war memorial, the former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters (also known as the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum) on Okinawa. During World War II an elaborate underground series of hundred-long meter tunnels were built under a...
With the exception of the horse-drawn delivery vehicles at the Thrasher Carriage Museum in Maryland and the sculpted wooden horses on display at the Museum of Fairground Art in Paris, the blog has not really paid much attention to the mammal known as the horse. Did you know there is...
Fifteen years ago today, Dolly the Sheep was born. Now stuffed and on display at the Edinburgh Museum, Dolly began her life at the Roslin Institute as a cell from a sheep donor’s mammary gland, hence the name. You might have heard of the famously busty country western singer Dolly...
In 1912 dime museums as well as arcades and theaters lined South State Street between Van Buren and Congress in the city of Chicago. These “first class” museums of curiosity, cheap theaters (with one claiming to feature “exotic” dancers from the Midway at Chicago’s World’s Fair), and penny arcades catered...
The House of Terror isn’t the name of the latest Kardashian clothing line at Sears, it’s a museum in Budapest, Hungary. Located in the former headquarters of the Hungarian secret police, the Terror Háza Múzeum contains exhibits related to the fascist and communist regimes in 20th century Hungary. The building’s...
Actor Kirk Douglas, star of the 1956 film Lust for Life, posing with a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait at the Art Institute of Chicago.
If you grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons like me, then you probably remember The Smurfs. But you might not know that they originally started as a Belgian comic strip in 1958. Interesting fact…Belgium has more comic strip artists per square kilometer than any other country in the world. So...
If you’re Catholic (or not), you might already know today is Ash Wednesday. And what better way to acknowledge it than with a visit to the Angel Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin. The “World’s Largest Collection of Angels” is located in St. Paul’s Catholic Church (good place for it, don’t ya...
Wow! If I thought I already found some very specific museums (like the Aluminum Tree and Seasonal Ornament Museum or Funeral Carriage Museum) I just discovered one to top them all. Yes, ladies and gentleman there is a Bicycle Pedaling Museum. Actually the correct term should be “was” as the...
Good news! Tourism officials in Logan, Ohio have found a new home for the thousands of pencil sharpeners that once belonged to an Ohio minister who died last summer. Rev. Paul Johnson’s collection of 3,479 pencil sharpeners were housed in a small shed behind his house in Carbon Hill. Open...
The record for the World’s Smallest Museum was once held by a 134 square foot tourist trap in Arizona. They need to change their website domain name from worldssmallestmuseum.com to worldssecondsmallestmuseum.com - hey, not so fast. One of America’s recent tornadoes ripped through Edgar’s Closet Museum. Sad. In 2008, sixth...
