Elgin Marbles: A Piece of The Parthenon in London
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Should a museum keep artistic treasures it acquired under dubious circumstances a long time ago, or should it return them to their country o...
Showing posts with the label Museum
The Museum of Bad Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2017
On rare occasions, a thrift store or a pawnshop can yield items of extreme value, but these are hardly the places you can expect to bump int...
Naples’ Secret Museum of Erotic Art
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2016
When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were unearthed from under volcanic ash at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, in the ...
The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2016
Two hours northwest of Tokyo in Chichibu, there is a museum of rocks called Chinsekikan where you won’t learn a thing about geology. However...
Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2016
On 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake in Wenchuan County, in Sichuan, China, left nearly 70,000 people killed and over 18,000 missing. A...
Whitney Plantation: America’s First And Only Slavery Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
Whitney Plantation is located near Wallace, in Louisiana, on the historic River Road in St. John the Baptist Parish, less than an hour from...
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2016
In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh Internati...
Montreal Biosphere
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed a...
National Poo Museum Opens in Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
No, its not an April Fool’s joke. Britain has indeed opened a museum dedicated to poo. The museum, which is surprisingly not the first of it...
Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2016
The Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum in Graz, Austria, is a gigantic blob-shaped building with a dozen or so tube like nozzles, acting as windows, ...
Icelandic Phallological Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2016
The Icelandic Phallological Museum in ReykjavÃk is the world’s only museum devoted to the male genitalia. It contains over 280 specimens rep...
The Backroom Collection of The National Museum of Natural History
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2016
The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States, the largest of all museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is hom...
155-Year-Old Mouse Trap in a Museum Claims Another Victim
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
The University of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life has caught a mouse in a trap, but not on one laid by the museum staff to catch ...
Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...
Museum of Bees, Poyales del Hoyo
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2016
The Museum of Bees, in Poyales del Hoyo, Spain, provides a unique opportunity for visitors to safely watch these hardworking insects in acti...
Egypt Opens Middle East's First Fossil Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2016
In the desert valley of Wadi al-Hitan, some 150 km southwest of Cairo, Egypt has unveiled what it said is the Middle East's first museum...
The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...
The Glittering Gold Museum in Bogota
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2015
The Gold Museum in Bogota is one of Columbia’s most important museums with an extraordinary collection of Pre Hispanic gold work on display....
The Neon Museum of Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2015
Not too far from the Las Vegas strip lies a junkyard filled with huge neon signs – signs that once proudly adorned such famous nightclubs an...
Ohio’s BibleWalk Museum is Made Up Of Discarded Celebrity Wax Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2015
Ohio’s only life-size wax museum, BibleWalk, is located in the city of Mansfield. A tribute to Christianity, the museum has more than 300 fi...
