This next museum makes me want to listen to Loretta Lynn’s The Pill. The Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has America’s only birth control museum. Opened since 2005, the museum exhibit has 650 artifacts–ranging from beaver-testicle tea believed to prevent pregnancy to sheep...
Here’s something you might not know: Everybody dies! No, this isn’t an episode of the television series House this is just the 13th century, when literally everybody was dying, you know, because of the Black Death. That event is remembered inside the rafters of the covered roof of the Spreuerbrücke,...
As October approaches, more and more people visit cemeteries because, you know, dead people are spooky or something. If you’ve read this blog long enough then you already know that I am a pretty morbid person. I visit cemeteries year-round. Apparently there is a name for it - a taphophile....
I wasn’t always a fan of Dylan, but I appreciate him a lot more than I used to, especially as I’ve gotten older. If you ever find yourself in Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, then make sure to walk around downtown where you can follow the 1.8 mile Bob Dylan Way....
Just outside the Quicken Loans Arena at the Republican National Convention In Cleveland is a Donald Trump Pop-Up Museum (soon to become an online museum) that tells the story of The Donald’s failed business ventures and more. The liberal political action committee American Bridge set up this exhibit to “expose…a...
Anyone else excited about the upcoming final season of Mad Men? It’s, like, my favourite television show ever, guys. I always think of my relative who was obsessed with Dallas and died before they found out who shot J.R., which means I have to live another 8 months or so....
In the United States, Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer, but to the people of a little town in Nebraska, it’s always summer. Why? At the Hastings Museum a special permanent exhibit “Kool-Aid: Discover the Dream” is dedicated to the man and his invention that is the...
In honor of Presidents’ Day, here is a statue, crafted in plaster and mesh, that pays homage to former U.S. President and former peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. Located in his birthplace and hometown of Plains, Georgia, Carter’s trademark grin is accurately showcased on the peanut. If you’re wondering how this...
Continuing with the junk theme from yesterday, here’s the latest art exhibition “Too Too - Much Much” from Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Using the motif of the beverage can, this installation at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium shows the meaning of quantity in our everyday lives. This is a hoarder’s...
Memorial Day marks the start of the summer season here in the United States where people sit around on lawn chairs in the boiling heat and grill hamburgers and hot dogs. What fun! Speaking of burgers, did you know there is a Hamburger Museum in Daytona, Florida? “Hamburger Harry” Sperl,...
Astronomical clocks represent the first real effort at organizing communities around the 24-hour clock, centuries before the Industrial Revolution. There are two clocks that survive in the Czech Republic, both popular tourist attractions, but only one is Communist. Located in the northern facade of the town hall, the Olomouc Astronomical...
When I visited Berlin I fell in love with the Bröhan-Museum. I made a point of going out of my way to Charlottenburg to go on a free day and it didn’t disappoint. The museum focuses on decorative objects and paintings from the Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the Berlin...
