We’ve covered clocks once before and of course lots and lots of booze (the mini bottle museum is my particular favourite), but unfortunately there isn’t a museum out there that has timepieces made of liquor or alcoholic glittery balls. Someone needs to make this happen. I guess we will just...
I’m sure this sign has gone viral meaning I’m not the first person to post a photo of it, and I probably won’t be the last. The Ukiyo-e Small Museum is open whenever the owner feels like it. What is ukiyo-e, you ask? It literally means “pictures of the floating...
The Beetle Collection at Oxford University’s Museum Of Natural History
Postcard from the Museum of Funeral Customs: “The practice of preparing the body at a funeral home’s embalming room and conducting funeral service there, rather than at the home, became more popular starting in the 1920s. The Museum of Funeral Customs is located at 1440 Monument Avenue, next to Abraham...
Seen at the Deutsches Zeitungsmuseum (German Newspaper Museum) in Wadgassen.
DEAD BIRD MUSEUM Verso: “Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Kauffman in the lobby of the Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kansas. The entire museum is a reflection of the Kauffmans, creators and directors of the museum.” The Kauffmans’ original collection is now part of a greatly enlarged Kauffman Museum that is...
This 1950s photograph shows the Cyclorama of Jerusalem, which has been on display in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec since 1895. The place has a long and interesting history. One of the world’s largest circular paintings at 14 meters in height and 110 meters in circumference, the work was created by the...
A bit pissed off because a post I was in the middle of writing (and I mean REALLY writing) suddenly disappeared into interweb oblivion. Oh well. I don’t want to write all over again. Come on, that would require work. So until I find the energy to research another museum,...
Today in 1861, the American Civil War began when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter in South Carolina. With two locations in Maryland, the National Museum of Civil War Medicine tells the story of “the dedication, innovation and devotion of Civil War surgeons and medical support staff on both sides...
My aunt and uncle are obsessed with olives. Whenever there are family gatherings, you can always count on a random plate of olives sitting on a table. Even if we’re just eating cake or something. I find olives disgusting. But if I can get my relatives to leave their house...
The Wooden Nickel Historical Museum in San Antonio, Texas has the world’s oldest as well as the world’s largest wooden nickels - 13 feet, 4 inches in diameter and weighing 2,500 pounds. Wooden nickels were most commonly issued in the U.S. in the 1930s after the Great Depression. If you...
I bet you didn’t know that October is Bat Appreciation Month. Or maybe you did. Who knows? There always seems to be something to appreciate…I mean a few weeks ago we were celebrating the octopus. Anyway, at the south end of the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas is a...
