Brooklyn Museum
This glass toothpick holder from 1892 has inscriptions of both Americus Vespucius and Christopher Columbus. It is on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
Selfie Stick
A few times a year I like to visit Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. I specifically go to see one thing - the Regenstein Center for African Apes. As I sit or stand there alone, I notice the similarities between them and humans, whether it’s a chimp scratching his foot or...
Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco
More than half of British tourists visit the same destination each year. I like to call them “monogamous travelers” as opposed to “an adventurer” like me, who never goes to the same place twice. My friend’s husband is the former. He visits Disneyland (or anything Disney-related) every single year for...
Rat King “specimens” is kept by the Mauritianum Museum, Altenburg, Germany
Wow! October is right around the corner, which can only mean one thing. It’s almost time for my annual attempt to highlight spooky museums and historic places, like the “Most Haunted House in Sweden” and Italy’s Serial Killer Museum for example. So in order to get you people ready for...
Halloween-worthy museums and attractions
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Every year during the month of October THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM attempts to highlight some Halloween-worthy museums and attractions. I hope you enjoyed learning about them. Maybe one day you will be able to visit Munich’s Asamkirche where a gilded skeleton sculpture tries to cut down an...
Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum
I don’t know if this scary or sad or both? A puppy, deformed from radiation due to a nuclear reactor gone wrong, is part of the exhibit on display at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum. I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since that horrible event happened.
Asamkirche (Asam Church) in Munich, Germany
Old churches usually have beautiful, and sometimes unique, statuary. But nothing beats the gilded sculpture of the skeleton of death trying to cut down an innocent cherub, who symbolizes the thread of life, with what appears to be a pair of scissors at Asamkirche (Asam Church) in Munich, Germany. Officially...
Century of Progress International Exposition
A bird’s-eye-view of the Field Museum and downtown Chicago during the 1933 World’s Fair known as the Century of Progress International Exposition. This photo was probably taken from the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge that ferried people across a lagoon from one side of the fair to the other.
Madame Tussaud Archives
There’s nothing creepier than a wax museum. See here and here for example. Oh, and why not check out this other post too while you’re at it? Did you click? Wasn’t that the absolute worst? Because you know what’s really, really, really creepy? Historic photos of wax museums. Madame Tussaud...
National Museum Scotland
Due to the small number of cadavers available for anatomical study in British medical schools during the early 19th century, many criminals committed grave-robbing, and even murder, to make some money. One such infamous case was the serial killer duo of Burke and Hare. Irish immigrants who lived in Edinburgh,...
American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan
I’d like a magic potion from the American Museum of Magic, possibly to be used to buy a magical lottery ticket for a billion gazillion dollars. That would make 2011 a pretty good year. Located in Marshall, Michigan, the museum is one of 10 museums devoted to magical subjects. Some...
Decoy Museum, Maryland
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. There’s a museum for just about everything. And I wasn’t lying. In Havre de Grace, Maryland there is a museum dedicated to “working decoys” (you know those things that sit in the water and attract ducks). Apparently duck hunting is popular...
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