If you have been following this blog for a long time, then you know how much I love visiting cemeteries. I am lucky that Chicagoland has so many interesting and historic ones, from Bohemian National Cemetery to Graceland Cemetery. A lot of these places have photo ceramics, which are porcelain...
We’ve covered teeny tiny book collections, outdoor parks full of mini buildings, the dedicated work of one Siberian artist and even the world’s smallest museum (yes, it’s the size of a closet…now go clean yours to make room for a new exhibit I’m putting together). But what about an art...
The goal of this blog is to cover every known Miniatures Museum in existence. And there are more than you might think from the Museu De Miniatures in Besalú and the Museum of Miniatures in Prague to Zarifa Salahova’s collection of miniature edition books in Azerbaijan and the Carromato de...
On this day 80 years ago, America’s first official Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents as he exited the Biograph Theater in Chicago after seeing the Clark Gable gangster film Manhattan Melodrama. At FBI headquarters in Virginia there is a collection of firearms...
Because I’m a poor asshole, I usually cannot afford to go to a hair salon. I end up badly cutting my hair into uneven bangs or have my mom (a beauty school dropout) give me a trim. But if I lived in Le Havre, France and was a man I...
I know we’re all sick of the apocalypse jokes, but how about one more? Well, it’s not really a joke but it sounds like it should be. If you ever find yourself thinking about the Carmelites, then you should probably know on the grounds of Our Lady of Mount Carmel...
I’ve decided to write only about my personal visits for historic house museum week; it’s much easier and I realize I have seen way too many in my life. Whenever I travel I make sure to see at least a few museums, and usually one is a house museum. It’s...
If you recall anything about yesterday then maybe your brain remembers yesterday’s post where I declared August 8th through 12th “Tiny Museum Week”. This blog is very important…you should have it marked on your calendar! Anyway, we continue our exploration of micro-museums with a visit to Minnesota. Right outside the...
Images have been manipulated since the camera was invented, long before the faux vintage filters of instagram took over the world. Next month the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens an exhibit entitled Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. Featuring hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through the 1990s, it is...
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1141 buildings, but only 532 were actually completed during his lifetime. Many have since been demolished with only 400 buildings still standing. But did you know he designed a cat house? In the early 1950s, Gerald Tonkens commissioned Wright’s office to design and build...
It’s time for another teeny tiny museum. Believe it or not, there is literally a museum in the window of the door of a private residence in Basel, Switzerland. It’s called the Hoosesagg Museum (hoosesagg means ‘trouser pocket’ in case you don’t speak multiple languages). Because the home is historically...
The Top Ten Best Museums to Visit on Easter: 1.Ukrainian Easter Egg Museum Ukraine might be having some problems right now, to put it lightly, but it’s home to the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ukrainian easter egg (pysanka) that also happens to be in a egg-shaped...
