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50 Museums That Went Above And Beyond To Make Sure The Experience Is Never Boring (New Pics)
Museum visits are often informative to enrich one’s knowledge. But occasionally, you will have experiences that may leave you questioning whether what you saw was indeed real.
Take these unusual exhibits, for example. We’re talking about displays like jars filled with actual kidney stones, “the world’s roundest object,” and Thomas Edison’s final breath preserved in a test tube (and no, you didn’t misread that).
Like what we did in a previous piece, we’ve collected some of the oddest, most eye-catching museum finds from different corners of the internet. Scroll through and be amazed or weirded out, either of which would be understandable.
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#1
That's Unreal
Zorro The Bus Conductor 1 year ago (edited)
It's nice to see those iconic cuddly toys. However the REAL Christopher Robin used to own a book shop in Dartmouth (UK) and I saw him a few times when I visited it. It would have been nice to have had a good old natter about his life but I respected his privacy and bought my books and left. 🐻🇬🇧
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#2
This Little Girl's Rock Displayed In My Local Museum
#3
The Capitoline Museums In Rome Have Artworks Carved Out On Stone For Visually Impaired People To Feel So That They Can Also Enjoy Paintings
Since we’re on the topic, let’s look at a few of the world’s unusual museums, beginning with the Beijing Museum of Tap Water in China. As the name suggests, it’s all about the 90-year-old history of Beijing tap water.
What can you expect inside the museum? One hundred thirty artifacts, 110 photos, 40 models, and sand tables. It also has a miniature tap water filtration system for a better visual presentation.
#4
The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years Almost Completely Intact
Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship.
#5
Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum. Each Suitcase Is A Family, A Life
#6
Museum Glass vs. Regular Glass
The British Lawnmower Museum in the UK is about the history of the grass-cutting device, which dates back to the late 1700s. It displays around 300 restored lawnmowers, including the first patent in 1799.
The museum also features lawnmowers owned by notable figures Princess Diana and Prince Charles, legendary musician Brian May, and television personality Nicholas Parsons.
#7
The Actual Bus Rosa Parks Refused To Change Seats On. National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, TN
#8
The Ficus Retusa Linn, The World’s Oldest Bonsai Tree, Is Over 1000 Years Old. Crespi Bonsai Museum, Italy
#9
From My Trip Through The Holocaust Museum, This Little Boy Took His Boot Off To Shower And Never Put It Back On
In addition to soulful jazz music and delectable Cajun food, New Orleans is also known for the Museum of Death. Stepping into the place, you’ll find antique mortician tools, body bags, coffins, and everything that will remind you of mortality.
The museum also features photos of the infamous Manson family, along with images of crime scenes and car accidents. The website was kind enough to point out that this isn’t for the faint of heart, so proceed with caution.
#10
In Japan, There Is A Museum For Rocks That Look Like Faces
#11
These Mugs Are 3,700 Years Old. From The Minoan Civilization And Now On Display At The Heraklion Museum, Greece
#12
The Original Gay Pride Flag, And The Sewing Machine It Was Made With
If you are curious about indoor plumbing and happen to be in India, visit the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets. Sociologist Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak founded the museum in 1992 to highlight the historical development of toilet systems and the evolution of sanitation.
It houses pictures and objects dating back to 2500 BC, as well as bidets and water closets that began to appear in households in 1145 AD. You will also find poems that appreciate the use of toilets.
#13
The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History Is Now Vaccinated! They Gave It A Bandage When Kids In America Were Approved For Their Shots
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
I think this is great, but I imagine that the type of a person who denies vaccines is the sort of a person who probably doesn't go to a museum - "too controversial."
#14
I Went To A Guitar Exhibition That Featured A Space For Air Guitar
#15
This Moon Exhibition In My Local Town
We’d also like to hear from you, readers. Have you encountered odd museum finds? If not, which ones among this list stood out to you? Comment below!
#16
The Fire Exit Sign In This Egyptian Museum Is A Pharaoh Running
#17
These Flowers Are Made From Crystals. Natural History Museum, Vienna
#18
These Dinosaurs Wearing Masks At The Indianapolis Children's Museum
Karina 1 year ago (edited)
I love these pictures of how so many museums and other childrens characters where given masks and bandages it started happening quite early in the pandemic, and it reminded me of the good in people everytime i saw it. Still has that effect. Edit stupid autocorrect even tho I corrected it
#19
My Local Museum Got A Life-Size Replica Of A Quetzalcoatlus. It Looks Too Real
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 1 year ago
One of the greatest joys of parenting for me was getting to learn how to pronounce about 60 dinosaur/prehistoric creature names correctly for my dino obsessed kid. I'm still really proud of myself for this one.
#20
The Way This Museum Arranged Snail Shells To Demonstrate Color Variation
Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 1 year ago
Why does this photo make me feel relaxed? (As someone with a lot of stress I have downloaded it to look at whenever it gets bad)
#21
One Of The 4000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wagons Unearthed In The Lchashen Village In The Vicinity Of Lake Sevan. Made Of Oak, They Are The Oldest Known Wagons In The World
Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia.
#22
LEGO Dinosaur, Australian Museum
#23
This Museum Has Taxidermized Animals Randomly Hidden In Odd Places - Behind Other Exhibits And So On
Chihuahua Mama 1 year ago
Living mice in the museum: "if I stay perfectly still when I see a human, they will think I'm just a display"
#24
1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
#25
I Found The Infamous 3700-Year-Old Copper Sale Complaint In The British Museum
#26
There Is A Free Public Cycle Path Through The National Dutch World War II Museum
#28
A Museum Display Showing The Clothing Worn By Intimate Assault Survivors During The Time Of Their Attacks
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
"intimate assault"? What in the name of the Orwellian language police is that? . Don't be afraid to say the word r-a-p-e (cuz THAT'S what it is), even if the idiotic censors won't let you.
#29
My Brother Went On A Trip To Egypt And Saw Mummified Crocodiles Exhibited In A Museum
#30
Xenomorph By H. R. Giger. Exhibition In Berlin
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
H. R. Giger was a brilliant artist, but I would not want to be inside that man's head!
#31
A Full Human Nervous System In The Anatomy Museum In Baylor College Of Medicine
#32
Dice For An Ancient Korean Drinking Game, Inscribed With Commands Like "Chug It All And Dance" Or "Sing A Song". Around 750 AD, Gyeongju National Museum
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
This seems more wholesome and fun than a lot of modern drinking games.
#33
"Puppy" - A Dog Statue Made Entirely Of Flowers By Jeff Koons In 1992, Is Located In The Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain
Ines Olabarria-Smith 1 year ago
I live near by and many times have been asked to please take a photo with the bear.
#34
I Took This At The Van Gogh Exhibit In NYC. One Of The Best Experiences Of My Life
#35
Skeleton Of Siamese Twins In The Mütter Museum
Kim Kermes 1 year ago
Conjoined twins has been said for some years now, though remembering Chang and Eng is not a bad thing.
#36
The Best Preserved "Lorica Segmentata" Roman Plate Armor In The World To Date, Corbridge Roman Site Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, UK
#37
The Museum In My City Dressed Up The Dinosaurs For Christmas. Taichung, Taiwan
#38
I Found The Holy Grail Today In A Museum In France
Joshua David 1 year ago
Back then the concept of a slip on sock shoe wasn't popular or even in production like they are today. Even the chunky heals weren't a thing on sneakers. It's funny how this predicted the future of shoes sans the self tying laces.
#39
This Art Exhibit At Renwick Gallery
#40
This Real Triceratops Skull In Mid-Processing. Denver Science Museum
#41
Inflatable Tank Decoy Used In WWII To Fool The Germans Into Thinking The Allies Were Going To Invade Hundreds Of Miles From The Actual D-Day Landing Sites
International Spy Museum, Washington DC.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
German forces did something similar and built wooden aircraft to try and fool the Allies, Bomber Command were actually aware that the airfield was a decoy so after it was completed they flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on the fake airfield.
#42
This Hyper-Realistic Ocean Wave In A Museum Exhibit
#43
The World's Roundest Object, At The Deutsche Museum In Munich, Germany
#44
The Roman Wine Of Speyer Is The Oldest Wine Of The World That Is Still Liquid. The Bottle Has Been Dated Between 325 And 350 AD. It Was Found In 1867 In A Grave And Is Today In A Museum
#45
Data's Costume On Display At The Goonies Museum In Astoria, Oregon
#46
This Art Museum In Denmark Lets You Scratch A Lamborghini
#47
These Jars In A Surgery Museum Are Full Of Gallstones And Kidney Stones
#48
Charming Anglerfish Sculpture At The Ripley’s Museum In Wisconsin Dells, Made From Scrap Metal
#49
These Models Of Hippies, Skaters, And Punks Are In A History Museum In Ecuador
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
LOL. Makes me realise what indigenous people / tribes people / foreigners etc must think of our exhibits of their cultures.
#50
Plastic Bag Jellyfish At Vancouver Aquarium
#51
Dom Pedro Aquamarine. The World's Largest Cut Aquamarine Gem. At The Smithsonian National Museum
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Lacking the requisite scale banana, I looked up the relevant stats in that Wiki site; It was cut from a crystal originally weighing approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) and measuring almost 2 feet (0.61 m) in length. The finished dimensions measure 14 inches (36 cm) tall by 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
#52
This Wax Museum Has A Wax Figure In The Restroom
#53
The Digital Art Museum In Tokyo Is A Must-See For Japan
sleepybear 1 year ago
i went to this, will never ever forget it. one of the best things i've ever experienced.
#54
Van Gogh Exhibit's Entrance
#55
Out Of Over 40,000 Windows In The World Trade Center Building Only One Survived Intact And It Was Marked To Have Come From The 82nd Floor
#56
All Separate Blown Glass Pieces. Chihuly Glass Museum, Seattle
#57
Life-Size Model Of A Megalodon Hanging At The Smithsonian Natural History Museum
#58
"All The Flowers Are For Me" Exhibit By Anila Quayyum Agha (Cincinnati Art Museum)
#59
An Ancient Clay Tablet Found In Uruk (Warka), Southern Iraq, Inscribed With Cuneiform Script And 3 Geometric Circles Containing Astronomical Calculations
Dated to the ancient Babylonian period (2004-1595 BC), the Iraqi Museum, Babylonian Gallery.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
If I had the cash I'd just spend a few years visiting museums around the world.
#60
Body Part-Shaped Hot Water/Oil Bottles Found At The Asklepieion Of Nea Paphos, Cyprus. Dated In The Roman Era, Exhibited At The Archaeological Museum Of Paphos
#61
Found In The LEGO Exhibit At The Museum Of Science And Industry
#62
Check Out This Glass Sculpture By Dale Chihuly At The Milwaukee Art Museum
#63
Massive Swords Of Hungarian Origin Dating Back To The 14th Century, Now On Display At The Topkapi Palace Museum In Istanbul
#64
Cardiff Museum’s Marble Exhibit
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
They've got a similar thing in one of the Oxford museums, very instructive. Should put it near the entrance though
#65
A Museum Of Hammers Located In Lithuania. The Owner Said, That There Were Around 1200 Hammers, Which Were Collected By Him Only. And It's Not Only The Hammers That You Hammer Nails With
There are cheese tester hammers, glass-maker hammers, railroad worker hammers, pneumatic hammers, and multi-use hammers.
#66
This Minecraft Diorama Thingy At The Indianapolis Children's Museum
#67
You Can See Dolly The Cloned Sheep At A Museum In Edinburgh
Karina 1 year ago (edited)
She lived for about six years, average agenof sheep are about 10-12 years, and she was euthanized due to aggressive lung disiese. Edited in Jens reply to mine, sinde its higly relevant :The sheep that Dolly was cloned from was already 6 years old when the material used to clone her were taken. Dolly's DNA was therefore already the equivalent of 6 years old, so while biologically Dolly was 6 years old when euthanised, on a DNA level she was already 12 years old and therefore more likely to experience health issues otherwise associated with a much older sheep
#68
The Very First Exhibit You See When You Begin Your Tour At The Army Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
#69
This Blown-Glass Statue Is In The Boston Art Museum
#70
iPhone And Google G1 Shown In Museum. I Feel Old Now
#71
Giant Isopod In A Museum
#72
Cup Noodle Museum. Ikeda, Osaka
#73
Check Out This Cube Of One Million Dollars In One Dollar Bills, Displayed At The Federal Reserve Bank Museum In Chicago
#74
Today I Visited The National Arboretum's Bonsai And Penjing Museum, And It Was Beautiful
#75
Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India. He Turned 40 Acres Into A Museum Of Art Using Scrap Trash Found Around India. Such An Inspiration. There Is No Such Thing As Waste
This is one part of it made of broken bangles and fragmented tiles.
#76
The Biggest Coin I've Seen. 100 Kg Pure Gold. Berlin, Germany
#77
This Star Wars Scene In A Spanish Wax Museum
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Han Solo looks like Samuel Adams, and Luke looks like one of the members of Abba
#78
World's First Meme Museum In Hong Kong
#79
D-Day Model At The WWII Museum In New Orleans
#80
Torture Masks, St. Augustine Torture Museum
#81
Rage Against The Machine's Tour Van Is Featured In The Human Rights' Museum
michael reid 1 year ago
They use force...To make you do...What the deciders HAVE DECIDED YOU MUST DO!
#82
My Small Town Has One Of The Original Copies Of The Declaration Of Independence
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
"Original copies" - Remind me of the joke about the museum that exhibited the 'Head of Jesus' next to the 'Head of Jesus as a young boy'.
#83
Bra Ball At The American Visionary Art Museum
#84
19th Century Skull From A Hydrocephalic Fetus, Royal College Of Surgeons' Museum, Edinburgh
#85
The Last Column At The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum
#86
Here’s The Other Authentic Pirate Flag. It Resides In The Mexican History Museum In Monterrey, Mexico
#87
Personal Bomb Shelter. Imperial War Museum
#88
Visited The Flower Exhibit At The Museum Today
Caryn C Crespo 1 year ago (edited)
This exhibit is presented annually and this is the 40th year. I've seen this approximately four times. https://www.famsf.org/press-room/bouquets-to-art-2024
#89
Merman Exhibit At My Local Museum
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 1 year ago
That looks like something Mike Mignola (the creator of the Hellboy comic) would draw.
#90
Art Museum Uses Glazed Ceramic Bits As Groundcover
#91
Thomas Edison's Last Breath, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Michigan
#92
Half Of Charles Babbage’s Brain Is Displayed At The Science Museum, London (The Other Half Is At The Hunterian Museum, Also London)
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
For those who don't know, Charles Babbage was an English Mathematician and Engineer who is often considered to be the "Father of the Computer". But unless this is supposed to be the inspiration for the Head Museum in Futurama, I don't understand the reasoning for keeping his brain in a jar.
#93
Saw This Today At The National Museum Of Native American History
#94
WW2 Tank Displayed At A Museum In Holland
arthbach 1 year ago
It's not in Holland, it's in the province of Utrecht. The Nationaal Militair Museum is at the former air base of Soesterberg. (Let's explain - Florida is not the USA, England is not the UK, Holland is not the Netherlands. They are all smaller areas with the sovereign nations.)
#95
The Chair Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated In, Henry Ford Museum
#96
The Titanic Museum In Orlando Is Selling A Huge Piece Of Coal From The Titanic For 500,000 Dollars
#97
Shoe Car That I Found In Some Museum
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Apparently made by George Barris for Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races.
#98
A Gun Axe That I Found In A Museum
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Actually, under the right circumstances, this might be more effective than a bayonet--you can generate a lot more force with a two-handed swing than you can with a two-handed stab.
#99
An Exhibit At The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts
#100
The Audio Guide At The Louvre Is A Nintendo 3DS XL
#101
An Item At The Field Museum Was Removed Because It Was Inappropriate To Display It
#102
Froggyland, Museum Of The Best Taxidermy In The World In Split, Croatia
#103
WW2 Museum In France. Couldn’t Get Away With This Title Today
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
"Couldn't get away with this title today". Declare war, millions will die, but don't insult anyone. (BTW, the BP-censored word is N a z i s). Sigh.
#104
An F-117 Stealth Bomber Delivered To A Museum But Stripped Of All Its Stealth Coatings And Instruments
BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
I always thought the F117A was a stealth fighter (not bomber). Had to look it up. Turns out it was a fighter-bomber :)
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
No! You'll get stuck with stories about people justifying doing mean, horrible things because by insisting the people they do them to are mean and horrible and you'll like it! And you finish your serving of celebrity worship!!!
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Kinda surprised the penis museum in Iceland wasn't featured here, well... maybe not.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
My favourite kind of museum! The surgeons museum in Edinburgh is brilliant. The museum of fakes in Vienna is well worth a look if you are visiting, they've even got a fake of a Keating! (but go to the art history museum first to get your eye in, as it were).
LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
The Surgeon's Museum in Edinburgh makes me think of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. I've been to both and have to say that they were delightfully disturbing yet fascinating.
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Tasha Wöbke 1 year ago
A addition to this would be the walrus from the horniman museum. Love seeing that - google it for the story!
BrunoVI 1 year ago
No! You'll get stuck with stories about people justifying doing mean, horrible things because by insisting the people they do them to are mean and horrible and you'll like it! And you finish your serving of celebrity worship!!!
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Kinda surprised the penis museum in Iceland wasn't featured here, well... maybe not.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
My favourite kind of museum! The surgeons museum in Edinburgh is brilliant. The museum of fakes in Vienna is well worth a look if you are visiting, they've even got a fake of a Keating! (but go to the art history museum first to get your eye in, as it were).
LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
The Surgeon's Museum in Edinburgh makes me think of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. I've been to both and have to say that they were delightfully disturbing yet fascinating.
Load More Replies... Tasha Wöbke 1 year ago
A addition to this would be the walrus from the horniman museum. Love seeing that - google it for the story!
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