One more Beatles-related post and I’m done. I once lived 30 minutes away from Liverpool, so I spent a lot of time there. The city isn’t all things Beatles all the time, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid the touristy stuff. The Beatles Story Museum is one of those places....
Stomach Contents, (c. 1929) Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph, MO One of the Glore Museum’s most popular exhibits is the result of a surgery in which 1,446 items were removed from a female patient’s stomach. Looks like she was busy putting nails and pins in her breakfast. I wrote about...
Made the mistake of watching some Royal Wedding highlights on the television. The media kept making dress comparisons between Duchess Katie and Princess Grace. That made me think of Monaco and how I’ve never covered a museum from there before…until today. There’s literally thousands of dolls and automatons (meaning the...
I just discovered my future home: Twist, Germany. The origin of the town’s name has nothing to do with Chubby Checker’s famous dance. It’s due to Germany’s long disagreement with the Dutch over borders. “Twistrich” or “Twist Gebiet” in Low German means “disputed border”. Anyway, I think this is the...
Happy February 29th! Leap Year happens every four years so make that shit count by doing something really really important today, like wasting an extra hour or two on the internet. That’s what I plan to do. Apparently there are no Leap Year Museums. Disappointment all around. I was going...
Located in Largo, Florida between Tampa and St. Pete, the Armed Forces Military Museum has a random, life-sized replica of an Iraqi Freedom-era Saddam Hussein holding a Mars Bar. It was the late dictator’s favorite candy bar, according to a small label next to his hand. When Hussein was captured...
It’s already tomorrow in Australia. Or maybe it’s tomorrow tomorrow. Did you know the land down under is home to over 150 BIG things? Most are tourist traps and roadside attractions, but it’s interesting nonetheless. I don’t know…it kind of makes me want to go to Australia now. Sculptor Ben...
Hanukkah Lamp, Richard Meier, New York, United States, 1985, tin-coated copper “A Hanukkah Project: Line of Fire” exhibit, Jewish Museum, New York City
Who knew Liechtenstein had so many interesting museums? This country of 60 square miles and a population of 35,000 has all the expected art and history museums. But there’s also the Calculator and Typewriter Museum, Ski Museum and Postage Stamp Museum. I don’t even know what to say. I feel...
When traveling to Tokyo you’ll probably be bringing a lot of excessive baggage (figuratively or literally) with you. What better way to rid yourself of it than with a trip to the Ace World Luggage Museum (after you needlessly purchase some self-help books of course). Owned by Japan’s Ace luggage...
Continuing with yesterday’s presidential theme, today is the 40th anniversary of LBJ’s death. He was only 64 years old, which is insane because he looked about 75 when he was JFK’s VP about 15 years before. He was actually only 9 years older than JFK. Crazy, man. But I guess...
I have never lived through a war zone, but I do appreciate a good joke. The Siege of Sarajevo has been memorialised in books, films, and numerous monuments, including a can of beef. During the nearly four-year siege of the Bosnian War, 160,000 tons of food and medicine were airlifted...
