Let’s continue the theme of weird Christmas traditions. Yesterday was the mysterious Christmas tree of Arizona, while today is the singing Christmas tree of Muskegon. Yes, that’s right. Every year this small Michigan city celebrates the holidays with three-hundred singers from the Mona Shores High School Choir standing on 15...
In my attempt to read the run-on ramblings of Morrissey’s memoirs (who is made of “Irish Blood, English Heart”) I thought I’d keep it interesting with my obsessive curatorial tendencies (and I once lived in Manchester, which means my heart also bleeds very damp industrial tears) by noting every mention*...
Anybody need insurance? In Kraków, you will find the world’s only Insurance Museum, Budynek Muzeum Ubezpieczeń. Located on the premises of PZU, one of the oldest insurance institutions, objects from the last three centuries are on display to show the development of insurance activities in Poland. Items include the insurance...
Sorry I’ve been missing in action. I told you that shit was going to happen, but please stick with me as I try to get back in the game of blogging about weird museums. Here in the good ol’ United States of America people are preparing for the holiday of...
As the never-ending 2016 U.S. presidential election continues in Philadelphia with the Democratic National Convention, a local museum has an exhibit all about presidents. Well, not exactly. It’s actually about presidential hair, which seems appropriate considering Donald Trump has the world’s most amazing (or hideous) combover. The Academy of Natural...
If you spend a lot of time on social media, you might have noticed some Americans have confused Labor Day with Memorial Day or even Veterans Day. Today is not about honoring veterans or the military dead, it is strictly about celebrating workers and the labor movement. I actually received...
Buchstaben Museum in Berlin is perfect for people, like me, who love typography and old street signs. With globalization and corporate-whoredom ruining everything, many traditional family-run businesses and mom-and-pop stores are disappearing from the landscape, replaced with mediocrity and blandness. Where once a street was covered with eyecatching signs, usually...
Leila Cohoon, founder of Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Mo. No, you won’t find curling irons and bump its at Leila’s Hair Salon Museum. Instead visitors marvel at 159 wreaths and 2000 pieces of jewelry made out of human hair. Great way to recycle your hair after you have a...
If you like trees made out of buttons, then you must go to the American Folk Art Museum to see Chicago artist Gregory Warmack’s creation. Or better yet…make one yourself.
In case you were wondering, there is more than one museum devoted to the magic of buttons. I know, shocking, isn’t it? Dover, Ohio…Bishopville, South Carolina…Waterbury, Connecticut…Ross-on-Wye, England…the largest one is located in Rimini, Italy with over 50,000 buttons. Aren’t you glad that you know this?
I don’t know what this is exactly, but it can be found at the Science and Design Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.
