Showing posts with the label Museum

Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Jan 9, 2024

In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...

Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman

Sep 7, 2023

In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...

Micrarium: The Museum of Microscopic Animals

Jul 23, 2021

It is said that more than 95 percent of animal species are smaller than your thumb, yet the vast majority of the creatures that are displaye...

The Space Museum Inside a Church

Oct 13, 2020

About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...

The Ruins of Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis

Dec 30, 2019

The tasteful ruins on the banks of the Mississippi River from which rises the Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum serves as a reminder to the site...

The French Chateau With The World’s Largest Private Collection of Warplanes

Sep 26, 2019

Among the rolling hills of Burgundy's wine country, surrounded by vineyards and forested land, stands a 14th-century castle belonging to...

The Museum That Collects Houses

Sep 20, 2019

The Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, West Sussex. Photo credit: Anguskirk/Flickr In the village of Singleton, in West Suss...

The Disgusting Food Museum

Oct 30, 2018

A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...

Morwellham Quay: A Historic Copper Port

Jul 21, 2018

Just four miles to the southwest of Tavistock, in Devon, England, “bordering the beautiful River Tamar, amidst towering cliffs and gently ro...

The Japanese Museum With The Most Flexible Opening Times

Jun 26, 2018

Ichimura Mamoru stands in front of his museum in Kyoto. Photo credit: thornet_/Flickr In a quiet residential street in Kyoto, Japan, just ...

Stuckie The Mummified Dog

Jan 22, 2018

Fifty years ago a dog went up a tree chasing a racoon or something. He never came down. Fast forward twenty years. A group of loggers cut d...

The Negro of Banyoles

Jan 22, 2018

It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...

How Clowns Trademark Their Face By Painting On Eggs

Dec 15, 2017

Every clown’s face makeup is unique, or at least, they should be, for there is an unwritten rule within the clowning community that no clown...

World’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Aug 9, 2017

Spread over nearly 900 square miles in the high desert of eastern Idaho, lies the vast campus of the Idaho National Laboratory. Much of the ...

The Birmingham Back to Backs

Jul 28, 2017

In the late Georgian era, Britain’s urban population began to grow rapidly as the country’s economy shifted from agricultural to industrial....

The Museum of Failure

Apr 25, 2017

Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pr...

The Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mining Museum

Apr 1, 2017

The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey, United States, is known for its variety of immersive and educational exhibits, but is best kn...

Galileo’s Missing Fingers

Mar 29, 2017

Everybody in Florence knows where Galileo Galilei lies buried. His mortal remains are in a crypt inside the famous Basilica di Santa Croce, ...

The Museum of Broken Relationships

Mar 2, 2017

An empty bottle of whiskey, a pair of fake breasts, a pair of tattered blue jeans, a toaster, an axe, and a stack of Brazilian Playboy magaz...

The Fortress of Mimoyecques

Feb 28, 2017

About twenty kilometers from the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques, in northern France, lies a once-secret undergroun...