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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That's Unreal
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. š»š¬š§
He hated being Christopher Robin. It ruined his relationship with his father.
Load More Replies...The English government (notorious for stalking cultural artifacts from every culture in history) demanded that these be returned. They were given to the new York public library by the author and owner of the dolls...
If the British Museum could move the pyramids, they'd be in the museum! LOL!
Load More Replies...I made a specific trip to see those. Couldn't believe how tiny Piglet actually is. Best day in New York!
Oh wow I had no idea they were based on real stuffed animals! How magical!
This Little Girl's Rock Displayed In My Local Museum
In fairness it is a very impressive rock , it's safer in a museum so she doesn't get dangerous gangs of rock thieves coming to her house.
The Capitoline Museums In Rome Have Artworks Carved Out On Stone For Visually Impaired People To Feel So That They Can Also Enjoy Paintings
Many people would like to touch the carved one and it would be calming too I think for ADHD, I would have loved it as a child as well as an adult as it's so tactile. So many museums were no touch, today's interactive ones are so much better š
Same. I love when I can engage more than one sense
Load More Replies...An absolutely wonderful idea! I'm not visually impaired, but I think these creations offer a fantastic opportunity to view the art from additional perspectives for even those with good eyesight.
I admire Hieronymus Bosch, but my love for Caravaggio('s paintings) can hardly be put into words. I can only recommend these 21 Ā»tableaux vivantsĀ«āhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aglqdK43AhU
Brilliant idea, well done. If the visually impaired person is visiting with sighted friends or family, they can discuss the art work together.
I would put my hands on the second display just to experience what it feels like in order to get a better understanding of what it is like to be visually impaired. I can see, but who knows if I will lose my sight in the future.
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.
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.
The dimensions/specifics were wrong for a ship that size. They got the engineering wrong. It sailed out only 1.3kms before the top-heavy ship toppled over.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: It was so well preserved due to the high salt content in the harbour.
I sincerely doubt the salt content was that high. It sunk in the Baltic Sea which isn't very salty. I have however read that the water where it sunk was unusually toxic, something about sulfuric acid, and that the sea naturally lacks ship worm.
Load More Replies...I went there - easily one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. And so much bigger than you imagined it
They salvaged the cannons and some more long before scuba, with a diving bell. Then it just stayed put for a long time.
I was a really amazing Roman warship at the Pompeii exhibit in Philadelphia. These things really are just awe-worthy!
It would be cool. But it was never really lost, just sunk. E:trying to spell
Load More Replies...Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps. Poland, GdaÅsk, World War II Museum. Each Suitcase Is A Family, A Life
Heartbreaking. Just like the countless pairs of shoes, or wedding rings that were stolen from the poor victims.
Yeah, the shoes breaks me every time I see a photo of it. So many of them are so small.
Load More Replies...Every time I hear/read about 'Holocaust Deniers', I have control the urge to hunt them down and activate "Throatpunch/Diaphragmpunch/Groinpunch.
That there are people who can deny the holocaust happened is hard for me to comprehend.
Load More Replies...Most of them unknown and forgotten. People die twice, first time is the actual death, second time is the death of the last one who remember... In this case often both deaths happened at the same time, as entire families, districts and towns were murdered en masse.
For the ancient Egyptians, you only really died if your name was lost. Otherwise if your name lived on, your soul did too. The worst punishment they could give was erasing someone's name from tombs and monuments. I never fully understood the impact of that u til I began learning about the holocaust and the millions of lost names.
Load More Replies...I am a grandson of the holocaust - both great aunts slaughtered - and even in 2024 I cannot go a day without seeing a WW2 reference. We should never forget but I'd love a break for a week maybe.
And yet there are people out there trying to prove this didn't happen š
And some people who want to see it happen again! To many people.
Load More Replies...Museum Glass vs. Regular Glass
Itās basically the same coating one gets for glasses one wears every day.
Load More Replies...My partner and I went to an electric fire showroom recently, they had a little display demonstrating the same thing as they provide the option of less reflective glass on their fireplaces. We both genuinely thought there was no glass on the left
Load More Replies...It often looks like you can just reach out and touch something, that glass is just amazing
There's a pencil museum in Cumbria, I never visited, I never saw the point.
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.
The Actual Bus Rosa Parks Refused To Change Seats On. National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, TN
@RamiRudolph I appreciate what you are saying that Claudette Colvin was under appreciated, but I don't think you can say that Rosa Parks was overrated. Her stance was vital to the Civil Rights movement.
Claudette was an unwed mother in the 1950s. Though what she did was brave, she would have been ripped to pieces by the moral police, and that would have overshadowed any civil rights statement she tried to make. Rosa Parks' life was untouchable and did not turn focus from the matter at hand.
Load More Replies...I've seen a powerful meme recently: "Rosa sat, so Ruby could walk, so Kamala could run". Brilliant. EmQSOv5VMA...03f885.jpg
lol I just posted the same saying but I saw it on a tee shirt
Load More Replies...The bus is actually now located in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
I saw a tee shirt that said "Rosa sat so Ruby could walk so Kamala could run". love that
I have been here. It is surreal, informative, and thought provoking. The contrast between touring Graceland and the Civil Rights Museum, and learning the history of both is definitely worth the weekend.
The Ficus Retusa Linn, The Worldās Oldest Bonsai Tree, Is Over 1000 Years Old. Crespi Bonsai Museum, Italy
Which is weird, because the are Chinese and Bonsai is a traditional Japanese art.
Load More Replies......And if it lashes out at visitors, that would be a bonsai attack...I'll see myself out....
Are you confusing "bonsai" and "banzai"? Different things, different pronunciation.
Load More Replies...The way it is cultivated, in a pot, shoots are clipped and trained, and also roots are clipped. You can have a six foot bonsai technically, but they are normally tiny
Load More Replies...Maybe the oldest outside of Japan but i visited one there which was 1500 years old.
its a real life version of the "offend memes" like the one with Spock saying "use the force harry"
From My Trip Through The Holocaust Museum, This Little Boy Took His Boot Off To Shower And Never Put It Back On
As a father of 6 boys I just have to block out the imagery. Instant panic is all my heart feels...
Load More Replies...There is a diary of a young jewish girl on display at the Caen memorial, opened to the page (early 1941) where she tells the conversation between her sister and her mother in the kitchen about a rumor that germans arrest people and we do not know what they become. She then writes that it is surely stories, that this cannot happen in our modern time, that government would not allow such things to happen... I often thought of these lines when I watched the news.
Vote don't cry. Vote like all of our lives depend on it.
The most striking thing about the Holocaust museum is the silence. There could be hundreds of people in the same room with you and no one is making a sound. It's quite unnerving. But fitting and respectful at the same time. The whole thing is a somber, chilling experience.
Unless you were there while I was there, loudly sobbing.
Load More Replies...So bone-chilling and heart-achingly sad. I cannot imagine the sheer horrors that survivors of the Holocaust witnessed. That is why it is so incredibly important to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust and other ethnic genocides that are still sadly taking place today.
It is in part, because of this, that I swore this; "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same."
I will never look at Germany with acceptance OR forgiveness. So many innocent humans - young and old went to their death at the hand of the German people. Death by gas, starvation, experimentation, and what was left endured back breĆ king labor.... Forgiveness is mine, saith the Lord. Thank the Lord he can make that decision, because I can not..
The horrible people who did all of that are long long dead and Germany today isn't even remotely like back then.
Load More Replies...The sculpture made from the pile of shoes from Yad Vashem still haunts me. Auschwitz_...x880-1.jpg
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.
In Japan, There Is A Museum For Rocks That Look Like Faces
You should have seen their expressions when they were stuck outside, all weather-beaten!
Load More Replies...These Mugs Are 3,700 Years Old. From The Minoan Civilization And Now On Display At The Heraklion Museum, Greece
I would love to have these in my pottery collection.Fun fact: the ogee (swirl) design on the top-middle cup is seen on similarly-dated ceramics and other decorative pieces from around the world, and is believed to be a representation of the tail of a comet that approached close to Earth almost face-on, with a nucleus that was rotating and so ejecting dust and gases in a spiral shape. Similar origins are thought to be behind the original swastika shapes, which are 2-or-more arms emanating from a central point, either straight or curved and with a bend at the end of each. There is a Chinese manuscript dating back several thousand years that categorises comet types, and among the illustrations are comets with swastika-shaped tails, so again from rotating comets approaching Earth almost face-on.
Oh that is so fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
Load More Replies...I am genuinely amazed at how similar the 3700 year old mugs are to their modern counterparts.
The Minoans were almost certainly the inspiration for the Atlantis myth
The Original Gay Pride Flag, And The Sewing Machine It Was Made With
*sees confederate flag* this one does not spark joy
Load More Replies...i didn't know there is a 1st one. ... i mean, i know there is A 1st one, but not THE 1st one.
Yes, a guy named Gilbert Baker made it for the 1978 San Francisco gay pride parade after being inspired by She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones.
Load More Replies...Susann... a thousand upvotes but, No, they want you to live by THEIR rules, the way THEY live! WhY CaN't YoU LiVe LiKe MeEeEeEe... Bastards! 500 Channels on TV and they complain about that one show on that one channel. Turn it off! Don't like they way I live, go away! I'll never figure out how some people think! Wish you and I had that kind of money and time to waste on policing others lives. Sux.
Load More Replies...Wow! Ancient. Before all the other acronyms were added....
They were still in the community. They just want to show that everyone is accepted now. Those identities go waaayy further than just "an acronym"
Load More Replies...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.
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
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."
Luckiky, field trips in school has always been designed to even out differences, good and bad.
Load More Replies...Multa Nocte, I would imagine you are correct. I have members of my extended family that are anti-vacs., for me personally, your character assessment and this assumption is correct. I was not rich, in fact I worked 2 and 3 jobs to give him a Mom's view of what I thought was a good education. We went to Philly and New York for plays, and yes we did my local college theater. We went to zoo's, aquariums and museums. His home office wall is filled withframed play bills. He has lived in places I would only be able to travel through the Internet. My Job is completed....
I Went To A Guitar Exhibition That Featured A Space For Air Guitar
The most played instrument in the worldš even my mother has had a go at it, so there is my proof.
I still learning to play chords on my air guitar; I don't want to make a fool of myself in public
At a gift shop at a music themed attraction we went to they sold air guitar "strings". It was an empty package with an elaborate label. They were not that expensive and my guitar playing son had to get one for himself and bring one back for his cousin who is also an avid guitar player.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it was reported stolen, and it hasn't been seen since.
They even took the time to rig the guitar hook so it's in the closed position which usually needs the weight of a guitar to make it close
There are actual air guitar competitions. I have a book about it called "To Air is Human"
This Moon Exhibition In My Local Town
š¶ And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear. You shout and no one seems to hear. And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.š¶
It's certainly been on tour around the UK. Had it in one of the churches in Harrogate a few years ago. Pretty cool in a building like that. Folks were just laid on the ground going, "Oooh! Aaaah!"
Hey, how come the moon is round while the earth is flat? I bet the dumb thing sat on us and killed all of our stone age dinosaur pets because the dinos were too tall. Stupid moon.
This looks like Museum of the Moon! If it is, it should be currently touring somewhere in Australia . Iirc, I think Perth?
"Alleged moon" said as a joke š¤£: Cryptonaut Podcast...
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!
The Fire Exit Sign In This Egyptian Museum Is A Pharaoh Running
Surely this would have been a more appropriate image to use main-qimg-...abb75.jpeg
These Flowers Are Made From Crystals. Natural History Museum, Vienna
Faberge created a series of different flowers set in 'water' and made from various crystals, embellished with gold and jewels. The 'water' in the vase is completely clear rock crystal. There's only a handful of them that have survived, and most of them are in the British Royal Collection. Each one is worth a fortune. One turned up on the Antiques Roadshow, owned by a military regiment-it had been gifted to them over 100 years ago. It was valued at a million pounds sterling.
Jade plants....Not Crassula ovata...but made of jade. My grandmother had 3 of these and they were so cool.
They have several beautiful crystal ang gem flower arrangements mad for the empress at that museum
These Dinosaurs Wearing Masks At The Indianapolis Children's Museum
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
'masks and bondages' is a whole different genre story....š
Load More Replies...It's the best children's museum in the country if not in the world. The staff talk about the "Parking lot serenade." That occurs when kids are exhausted by the experience and are crying as they go to the car because they don't want to leave.
I used to buy weed from a security guard that worked nights there
Load More Replies...Grover on Sesame Street is named after a friend of mine. My friend broke his ankle in his yard and owing to bad weather the paramedics couldnāt get to him for a while so now he has permanent damage to his ankle. He has quite a few Grovers in his house and all of them have a bandage on their ankle.
My Local Museum Got A Life-Size Replica Of A Quetzalcoatlus. It Looks Too Real
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.
The Detroit Zoo often has a dinosaur exhibit area. Several of the animals (including the Quetzal) are true to size, but some (like the TRex and diplodocus) are scaled down. Many of them are animatronic.
Quetzalcoatlus wasn't a dinosaur. The pterosaurs were a completely separate group of species.
Load More Replies...The Way This Museum Arranged Snail Shells To Demonstrate Color Variation
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)
Maybe the little snails are reminding you to s l o w down and relax? š
Load More Replies...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.
LEGO Dinosaur, Australian Museum
One of the things I dislike about modern Legos (sorry, Europeans, I meant Lego) is that many of the pieces are so specialized that you can only used them to build what's on the box, so I appreciate--and am totally awed by--the fact that this fluid sculpture was build using only "old school" square bricks.
Agreed. They ruined something when the took the imagination and inventiveness out of LEGO.
Load More Replies...We have a few of these, exhibitions that open up here and there on school holidays, their so amazing to go to, mostly built by "Brick-Man" Ryan McNaught and his team. Recommend his TV show 'Lego Masters.'
Imagine tripping over into that and watching helplessly as it disintegrates into a pile of bricks.
Haven't played with Lego for a while, eh? They click together like concrete and steel!
Load More Replies...This Museum Has Taxidermized Animals Randomly Hidden In Odd Places - Behind Other Exhibits And So On
Living mice in the museum: "if I stay perfectly still when I see a human, they will think I'm just a display"
Living mice having a chat to his mate: "You've been awfully quite, Steve, are you feeling alright?"
Load More Replies...Oh, nice. I recognize the first line of butterflies! Gonepteryx rhamni, Limenites camilla and Limenites populi and also Argynnis paphia. (Pardon my latin, I don't know the English terms for them)
Please don't apologize for your Latin, I'm impressed with that!
Load More Replies...I tried to search it but couldn't find one specific museum. It seems quite a few children's museums do this as an intentional "easter egg" or scavenger hunt, which is really cool.
Load More Replies...1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
It does, but you won't be disappointed if you go, as long as you are not hungry
Load More Replies...They discovered a few threads of wool in these, proving that Romans wore socks with sandals. Say what you will but I'd say that if that combination was good enough for the very stylish Romans, it should be fine. (not that I ever would, of course)
since most of our clothes now have plastic-based fibers in them, they'll exist a lot longer than these have.
I Found The Infamous 3700-Year-Old Copper Sale Complaint In The British Museum
They should have also put on display the reply from the supplier that indicated that they welcome feedback from their valued customers and advising that the issue has been referred to their Quality Control department (Ancient Babylonian equivalent of the ISO 9001 certification logo chiselled at the bottom)
Clay tablet, left out in the sun (Save-function) after completion of the message. Great technology: you can Edit (using the point of the stylus), Erase (turning the stylus sideways and running it up and down) and Save (leaving the tablet out in the sun).
Load More Replies...Imagine having to copy/paste a few hundred clay tablets to your coworkers as the equivalent of an email :)
honestly i'd do the same. i need good quality copper, i didn't pay for that c**p.
Weird, it doesn't seem to be written in English, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Scot or any other language native to the British isles. I wonder how the British Museum got a hold of it.......
I'll be kind of honest when I first glanced at this I thought it was a fifth element stone. Lol
There Is A Free Public Cycle Path Through The National Dutch World War II Museum
I have been there with my family. Imagine our surprise when you see bikers coming through the museum
I've been there today!! It was massive!!! Most of the stuff displayed is WW2 related, in particular about the battle of Overloon. A battle that was fought after the famous allied attack operation Market Garden. I highly recommend this museum. Take out a full day. You need it to see it all.
Ive been there, but you can only see a very small part of the museum over the bike bridge. On the ground floor you can see much more.
From The Hakone Open-Air Museum
I love the "giant head with plant hair" look, have seen several places like this.
A Museum Display Showing The Clothing Worn By Intimate Assault Survivors During The Time Of Their Attacks
"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.
Actually, not all "intimate assault" is rape. That might be what they mean, but a lot of sexual assault is not technically rape. Rape is the worst, but say, grabbing a woman's breast is also intimate / sexual assault but it isn't rape.
Load More Replies...When organizations like Bored Panda sanitise language and refuse to use words like rape, they are censoring, and contributing to the widespread silencing of, survivors that is part of the problem which creates the toxic environment where perpetrators are protected while survivors are shamed. We will never tackle rape culture if the word is more feared than the deed. (Edited for grammar)
BoredPanda has some of the most vile and disturbing censorship Iāve ever seen. Theyāve censored the female form in great works of art. Theyāve changed the word kill to āunaliveā in posts. Theyāve censored words like d***s, breast, suicide, and even the freaking word W***y. Iāve written to them about this and have never heard back. They honestly donāt give a s**t about their site not their readers.
Load More Replies...Displays like these are so powerful because it shows that "what she was wearing" has nothing to do with it. True of any gender of course.
We've got one here in Bremen, Germany right now. Everyday clothes, uniform, jogging outfit, summer dress, a dress for a 5 year old.
Load More Replies...I've said it before but I might as well say it again: I was wearing a Christian private school uniform which covered me from wrists to ankles. Literally the only skin I had showing were my face and my hands. Nor was I considered pretty. Didn't make any difference at all to that POS. I was sitting alone and therefore an easy target.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It's never, ever the victims fault! I hope you know that you are a beautiful soul. You deserve happiness.
Load More Replies...I never heard of this word. But thƩ devil may take me if I am ever going to use this. Intimate assault please. As a survivor myself I hate this wording. The assault is anything but intimate in every way. If somebody ever says to me. Have you been intimate assaulted I Will punch there f*****g lights out. And then you can call it intimate assault. Because my fi st was intimate with your face
Enough with the damned censorship, BoredPanda. The amount of censorship on this site is beyond disturbing. The original headline says sexual assault. Stop trying to minimize how horrible something is by policing language. Thereās nothing intimate about rape.
There was noting intimate when i was sexually abused as a child but hey!! lets give it a new name for the woke community.
It's just the BP header, the original post says sexual assault. But yeah, the term the BP folks chose is... nauseating.
Load More Replies...BP, if you use the term "Intimate Assault" instead of the correct RĀ Ā AĀ Ā PĀ Ā E, you mitigate the guilt of the RĀ Ā AĀ Ā PĀ Ā IĀ Ā SĀ Ā TĀ Ā S and in turn despair the victims of the RĀ Ā AĀ Ā PĀ Ā E. You're disgusting, BP!
My Brother Went On A Trip To Egypt And Saw Mummified Crocodiles Exhibited In A Museum
Jane Jayne Jain jeign jein, wait lemme take a breather.....ok good now you won the internet today
Load More Replies...When I went to the Ancient Egypt exhibition at the National Museum in Canberra, they had actual mummified bodies. It was sad how young they all were- one was a 15 year old girl š
why for gods sake, they had too much mummy binds and then wrapped anything they found
Xenomorph By H. R. Giger. Exhibition In Berlin
H. R. Giger was a brilliant artist, but I would not want to be inside that man's head!
He was actually a pretty chill person, who was not tormented at all, despite what many might think. He just was creative in a particular and sometimes creepy way, but the man himself looked pretty unsuspecting and seems to actually have been so. From someone who's read both his biography and autobiography.
Load More Replies...Here boy! Heel. Good boy! Roll over! And again! Oh, who's a good little Xenomorph? One my time, roll over. That's it. Play dead. No... seriously. Play dead. Die. Just die.
A Full Human Nervous System In The Anatomy Museum In Baylor College Of Medicine
I recall a similar exhibit said something about using different solvents to dissolve skin layers, muscle, bone, organs, etc.. The body was donated to medical science.
Load More Replies...That, uh, oddly makes me feel itchy. I donāt think my nervous system wanted to know that it looks like twigs or spider webs. Still cool, though!
Can you imagine if it had been dropped, and you were the unfortunate sap charged with detangling it?
I've seen this in a museum in my city! Probably not this exact one btw! It's absolutely fascinating to look at/study, finding out more about how your body works š
Fascinating! The amount of time spent for us to appreciate our body. :D
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
This seems more wholesome and fun than a lot of modern drinking games.
You also really need to check out the ancient Vietnamese Beer Pong table.
"Puppy" - A Dog Statue Made Entirely Of Flowers By Jeff Koons In 1992, Is Located In The Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain
I live near by and many times have been asked to please take a photo with the bear.
If I saw this without explanation I don't think I would know it was a puppy.
Load More Replies...My mother-in-law entered a cat made of flowers in this style for a sculpture competition and won!
I Took This At The Van Gogh Exhibit In NYC. One Of The Best Experiences Of My Life
There was an episode of Dr who with van gogh and it was a bittersweet episde
I love that episode. Idk why, but it makes me tear up when I watch it.
Load More Replies...I went to this when it was in Reno, NV. It was absolutely beautiful. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists. I can't wait to be able to France to go to Auberge Ravoux in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, the last place her lived, and to his grave to show my respect, Le Champ De BlƩ Aux Corbeaux and a few other places. I would love to see his paintings in real life as well.
I saw it in New York City, but Iām sad to say I didnāt see the appeal.
I skipped this when I was in Glasgow. I wanted to see real paintings but folks told me it was well worth the 25 pounds
Skeleton Of Siamese Twins In The Mütter Museum
Conjoined twins has been said for some years now, though remembering Chang and Eng is not a bad thing.
Considering some of the stuff that does get censored on BP, I'm a little surprised by "Siamese" rather than conjoined.
Load More Replies...I remember our obstetrics professor telling us in our first class that by the time she's finished with us, none of us would want to have children. The amount of things that can go wrong is insane!
You can survive with a hole in your skull. I'm trying to figure out how old they are just looking at the skeleton. Looks toddler size maybe? Small child?
Load More Replies...The Mütter Museum is fascinating and I highly recommend looking it up. As long as you're not too terribly squeamish.
The Best Preserved "Lorica Segmentata" Roman Plate Armor In The World To Date, Corbridge Roman Site Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, UK
The right-hand (our left) pieces are recreations to show how the original would have looked.
Oh okay I was thinking "what kind of conditions was it resting in to perfectly preserve only one side?????"
Load More Replies...Incredible for a civilization to create such pieces from raw materials. So much has been simplified and automated over the last couple millenia.
The Museum In My City Dressed Up The Dinosaurs For Christmas. Taichung, Taiwan
They probably think Jesus was out riding a dinosaur while he was out in the desert. Forget Satan, let's bronc a T-Rex
Load More Replies...This seems to be becoming more popular. I've seen a number of museums that dress their dinosaur exhibits in various holiday and seasonal outfits. I think it was the NY Museum of Natural History that put their T. Rex in a giant Ugly Christmas Sweater a few years ago.
I always wondered how his grandma managed to knit that with such short arms
Load More Replies...I Found The Holy Grail Today In A Museum In France
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.
They predicted a lot of things in that movie that we laugh at watching it - its all just satire of how society is
Load More Replies...I am a Adidas person. And to me the Nike Holy Grail, is the Silver & Black w/top ankle strap pair, that Kyle Reese/Michael Biehn wore in 'Terminator'.
This Art Exhibit At Renwick Gallery
There is an installation like this in St Petersburg, FL called Bending Arc by Janet Echelman Eta: I just learned that this piece is also by Janet Echelman!
It made me shake my head at first, I thought I was having an LSD flashback.
Guess I'm not very enlightened. My first thought was Super-Saiyan hair.
This Real Triceratops Skull In Mid-Processing. Denver Science Museum
I grew up thinking the big flared part in back was defense, turns out it was more for turning on the ladies. Which makes me feel like there were able to live peaceably enough to work out their s3x life enough to develop such "flair"
They were around for two million years so they had plenty of time to work out their seduction techniques.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
There's nothing funny about World Wa...
Load More Replies...Probably burned their lips on the exhaust pipe though
Load More Replies...There's a British series called Deception, which has many examples of how Allied Forces plonked the German's efforts. Also, GREAT movie: The Man Who Never Was (with Clifton Web) was about Operation Mincemeat. (remake was not as good, despite Colin Firth)
Remake was more accurate because it could use information that was classified when the first one was made. But the original was great.
Load More Replies...The International Spy Museum is absolutely worth a visit, their interactivity is unmatched! They also have really cool exhibits tho :)
PBS has a great documentary of the "ghost army" https://www.pbs.org/show/ghost-army/ It was far more clever and effective than inflatable tanks.
Both Ukrainian and invader armies are using similar devices today. They're made by a Czech company that originally sold to both sides but after a bit of blowback, now sells only to Ukraine. Screen-Sho...62-png.jpg
This Hyper-Realistic Ocean Wave In A Museum Exhibit
I look at that and feel like I am about to be slapped by a wave and will drown.
I like this one so much! You wouldn't stop me from walking on it lol
I don't like the window (?) behind it. I think it would add a lot to the realism if they had either a sun-like or a moon-like light behind it. Like this it's a bit "meh"
I look at the curves in this and wonder which one my cat would decide is THE one he will settle in.
I hope this is like in the Midwest where people don't get to see real ones.
The World's Roundest Object, At The Deutsche Museum In Munich, Germany
That reminds me of something I was told years ago. I can't verify it's veracity, but a group of American engineers and a group of German engineers had a friendly rivalry going. The group of Americans manufactured a piece of wire that they thought was the thinnest that it was possible to make. They put it in an envelope and shipped it to their rivals, with no explanation. Some time later they received it back, again with no explanation. They were puzzled until they examined it with a microscope and discovered that a hole had been drilled through it.
Ok, I get and love this story but I canāt help but say: as told, the Germans didnāt necessarily prove they could make a thinner wire - you can ādrillā a hole in something with things other than metal cylinders!
Load More Replies...I hear that it is no longer the roundest object as it has flattened out by standing in its display.
And I thought the Earth was more round than a precision ball-bearing. Not any more!
By May 20, 2019, the kilogram (kg) is defined by specifying the numerical value 6.626 070 15 Ć 10-34 for the Planck constant h, expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m² s-1, where the meter and the second are defined by c and ĪνCs.....š¤ š¤·š½ š¤¹š½
I wonder how they thought that THIS one was the roundestāDid a bunch of nominees make spheres and the judges were like, "nope, THIS is much rounder than THAT one"?
Probably a scanner and some math. Sorry, i misread. But this seem to have been a thing for a loong time. First with wooden orbs. Its a testiment to the skills a nation posesses, and therefore something a king would like to have.
Load More Replies...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
I've visited this museum and saw the wine. There is so much stuff inside the bottle partly because it was sealed not with a cork, but with olive oil :)
Interesting, how do you seal a bottle with liquid oil?
Load More Replies...The bottles not having it (insert apparently nonexistent hands-on-hips emoji)
Imagine a very eccentric wine collector hiring thieves to get that bottle and then the face of the collector tasting it! Itās not true that wine tastes better the longer itās stored. Very few wines do. The wines we ordinary people buy is already aged to its potential hight by the producer and in the right environment. But that doesnāt mean it canāt be saved for some special occasion. Most wines can survive a couple of years in a cool, dark place with right humidity and no vibrations. Once opened, well then it should be consumed within a week, sparkling wines within hours.
Data's Costume On Display At The Goonies Museum In Astoria, Oregon
Yes, it opened several years ago. Housed in the old Clatsop County Jail, a working jail from 1914 through 1976, the museum continues the buildingās legacy as an actual working set for three movies: The Goonies, Short Circuit, and Come See The Paradise. We invite you to explore the films and production behind making movies in Oregon. Your visit will include the chance to make your own short movie utilizing our sets and green screens.
Load More Replies...That's not the Data I were thinking at first, but the one from Goonies. Still love him ā„ļø
Same! I was really racking my brain about how I could have possibly missed an episode where Data wore THIS!
Load More Replies...This Art Museum In Denmark Lets You Scratch A Lamborghini
For me it would be a Dodge Ram. But only because that's what a lot of the local to my area jerk drivers are tailgating me in. A Cyber Truck would be fun too though.
Load More Replies...Why Lamborghini? It is usually AUDI or BMW that are cutting off/speeding and deserve to be scratched.
As a longtime cycle commuter, I am especially cautious around certain drivers whom I have privately dubbed Audi A-holes, Beamer Bozos and Mercedes Meatheads. (Apologies to any Pandas who own these cars - I have no doubt you are mindful, courteous drivers.)
Load More Replies...I think it would be a shame to scratch such a nice car. Or any car for that matter. Maybe some drivers deserve to get scratched a little but do not take it out on the car.
It's an object with some paint on it. Nobody's damaging the engine or any important parts - just the paintwork which can be easily repaired any time.
Load More Replies...i wonder if someone will buy it afterwards? i feel like it's worth would be increased for some reason.
These Jars In A Surgery Museum Are Full Of Gallstones And Kidney Stones
I had to have my gallbladder removed. Yes. Feels like you're being punched in the stomach. Not fun.
Load More Replies...i don't understand how kidney stones work, and quite frankly i don't want to find out.
Of course you haven't had THESE, they came out other people.
Load More Replies...OH MY GOD!! I've always thought that comparing any pain to childbirth was a bit of an insult to women. But Christ almighty... having to pass some of the larger ones?!! No. Just No.
Some of my friends have had both. On a pain scale, the rocks win..
Load More Replies...As the proud but not happy owner of a mere 4mm one of these, I believe you are correct
Load More Replies...Out of everything that has happened to me, pain and discomfort wise, kidney stones was hands down the absolute worse. I really do not want to ever try to top that.
I have a picture of my gallstones from after my gallbladder was removed. They're bright yellow! Maybe the color fades when they dry out?
Charming Anglerfish Sculpture At The Ripleyās Museum In Wisconsin Dells, Made From Scrap Metal
These Models Of Hippies, Skaters, And Punks Are In A History Museum In Ecuador
LOL. Makes me realise what indigenous people / tribes people / foreigners etc must think of our exhibits of their cultures.
The hippie looks so miserable and the punk looks happy. Wonder how they chose the facial expressions.
Plastic Bag Jellyfish At Vancouver Aquarium
if you write the word "only" in front of the sentence. They are already ocean creatures. That's why whales die, because they eaten too much of those and starve to death, because their stomaces are full.
Load More Replies...This is also brilliant. Every time I see a picture of a sea turtle involved with plastic bags it gives me nightmares.
I live in a state that banned plastic grocery bags about five years ago. I thought it was silly at first, until I was driving home one autumn and saw the bare branches of a maple tree completely filled with discarded plastic bags. Ok, so maybe this isn't such a bad idea...
Dom Pedro Aquamarine. The World's Largest Cut Aquamarine Gem. At The Smithsonian National Museum
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.
Thank you for all the information. ... so how many bananas long is it?
Load More Replies...For political and ethical reasons, I don't do diamonds, so my wife's engagement ring has a large Aquamarine, her birthstone. I've added many matching pieces over the years, so this would make a nice addition to her jewelry collection, although I don't know how she'd wear a 14" crystal obelisk.
This Wax Museum Has A Wax Figure In The Restroom
Harmless. A pub I know had a wax Jack the Ripper posed in a dark corner behind the restrooms... You could tell who was there for the first time because of the screams.
How would they know it was supposed to be Jack the Ripper, lol? They never apprehended him. Unless the figure had a featureless face? (I still think he was either a Royal, or an upper class surgeon)
Load More Replies...Hope they're isn't one in the ladies - the queue will be long enough already.
Years ago, mid 80s, at Madame Tussauds, London, they had a figure of on old woman that had fallen asleep on a bench with a program in her hand. Was done well enough we had to touch it to make sure it was a statue and not some one that had checked out because it wasn't breathing.
The Digital Art Museum In Tokyo Is A Must-See For Japan
i went to this, will never ever forget it. one of the best things i've ever experienced.
Going off this photo, it must have been spectacular.
Load More Replies...Van Gogh Exhibit's Entrance
And here I thought it put you into the right frame of mind to see Van Gogh!
Load More Replies...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
I'm sorry, but I could think of at least 5 reasons why it should be in a museum within the first minute of reading your comment.
Load More Replies...All Separate Blown Glass Pieces. Chihuly Glass Museum, Seattle
The arboretum in Dallas had his installations all over one year. It was truly beautiful.
I got to take a class from Chihuly when I was in glass blowing in middle school. He is such a cool guy and amazing artist.
Huh, living in the area my whole life I guess I haven't realized how mind-boggling Chihuly art is to people. Not even 5 minutes from me there's a McDonald's with Chihuly glass in it. And the museum of glass is nearby; largest glass-blowing studio on the west coast (of USA)
Life-Size Model Of A Megalodon Hanging At The Smithsonian Natural History Museum
This scared the c**p out of me. Its the sheer size of the thing! It's terrifying
What a megalodon actually looks like. https://www.reddit.com/r/Paleontology/comments/sx7vpu/i_did_some_digging_and_i_found_out_that_an/
"All The Flowers Are For Me" Exhibit By Anila Quayyum Agha (Cincinnati Art Museum)
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.
If I had the cash I'd just spend a few years visiting museums around the world.
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
I read that wrong and thought they were made out of body parts!!! Tour comment threw me!!!
Load More Replies...Found In The LEGO Exhibit At The Museum Of Science And Industry
that movie ruins my brain, i think about it everytime !
Load More Replies...Check Out This Glass Sculpture By Dale Chihuly At The Milwaukee Art Museum
Also at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Load More Replies...I got to take a class from Chihuly when I was in glass blowing in middle school. He is such a cool guy and amazing artist.
There's a truly enormous one of these, by Dale, at the V&A in London -https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O301268/va-chandelier-chandelier-dale-chihuly/
Massive Swords Of Hungarian Origin Dating Back To The 14th Century, Now On Display At The Topkapi Palace Museum In Istanbul
I recall that swords of this length and weight were primarily used to break the heads off enemy pikes, but could certainly break the heads off enemies too.
Load More Replies...Because Spears, Poleaxes, and Lances, were not getting the job done?
Cardiff Museumās Marble Exhibit
They've got a similar thing in one of the Oxford museums, very instructive. Should put it near the entrance though
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.
This Minecraft Diorama Thingy At The Indianapolis Children's Museum
You Can See Dolly The Cloned Sheep At A Museum In Edinburgh
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
I may be over-simplifying this, there's an in depth explanation around telomere shortening, but a short version... 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.
Load More Replies...Dolly wasn't cloned from another sheep named Dolly. She actually had 3 mother's, one provided the egg, another the DNA, and the third carried Dolly to term.
Load More Replies...Called Dolly because she was cloned from material taken from the breast of another sheep. Anyone know of a Dolly with notable breasts?
The Very First Exhibit You See When You Begin Your Tour At The Army Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
The war machine would like us to believe that violence is in our nature, but our hominid ancestors outsmarted the other larger, stronger early hominid species through our ability to cooperate. (Human Kind by Rutger Bregman is a fascinating read, if your interested)
I shall find it. But I can recommend Better angels of our nature, by Steven Pinker as a follow on, if you've not read it.
Load More Replies...This is right before the obelisk appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
the poster behind is quite disturbing too "a thousand and one way to accommodate his enemy "
Also Sprach Zarathustra, composed by Richard Strauss. Incredible piece of music.
Load More Replies...This Blown-Glass Statue Is In The Boston Art Museum
iPhone And Google G1 Shown In Museum. I Feel Old Now
Ha! I still have old Nokias and a Blackberry lying around. Will call the museum.
Proving that cr@pple's phones were always unusable garbage. Left handed people couldn't them fifteen years ago because of the lousy OS, and still can't today.
I'm left handed, so is my father. Haven't faced any issues with iphones or iOS
Load More Replies...Giant Isopod In A Museum
Looks a bit like the cockroaches I see in my backyard, only smaller
Nope, Nope, Nope. Need a very big thermobaric bomb filled with Raid!
No. No it doesnāt. Itās horrifying enough the way it is. I donāt want to know how many bananas it is
Load More Replies...Cup Noodle Museum. Ikeda, Osaka
Check Out This Cube Of One Million Dollars In One Dollar Bills, Displayed At The Federal Reserve Bank Museum In Chicago
One of the dumbest tropes in Hollywood is when the kidnapper says, "I want one million dollars in small bills or we k*ll your daughter!", and then the guy shows up to pay the ransom with just an ordinary sized briefcase. Real cash is bulky, people.
So how am I supposed to get that thing into the money slot at the self-service checkout?
I'm sorry, that's not real money, is it? Like, they have a million dollars in cash in a museum while people are literally LIVING IN THE STREETS?!
Wait till you hear what billionaires are doing with 99.99% of their money. (Hint: it's just sitting there. Not going back into the economy. They're taking all our money and then just sitting on it.)
Load More Replies...A serious waste of money. I wonder if it came out of their budget?
Today I Visited The National Arboretum's Bonsai And Penjing Museum, And It Was Beautiful
TRUE bonsai (not the stuff you sometimes see for sale in box stores) can be pretty amazing. A couple of times I attended Sakurcon in Seattle. It's an anime convention, which doesn't matter except due to some ties with Japan it has a bit of cross cultural stuff. One room was a display by a local area bonsai club. Some of the 'trees' on display were very many years old (I forget how old, but impressive). One of them looked like an evergreen forest. I don't recall the underlying plant on that one - maybe something in the juniper family. But it was sculpted over time to look like a forest of individual evergreen trees even though it was one plant. I'm sure a full on bonsai museum would be "more" but even though they only had three or four dozen plants, what they had was pretty impressive.
The White Tree of Gondor's daughter has wandered off with one of the Fangorn boys.
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.
That sounds like a line from a film noir voiceover: "It was a street full of broken bangles and fragmented tiles".
Any artists out there want my cats litter trays- free, pick up only.
Whilst I like this exhibit, I cannot agree with the adage "there's no such thing as waste". It seems to absolve us of all our responsibility and complicity in the destruction of the natural world. Plastic is waste in the making from the moment it's created - it MIGHT be recycled once or twice, but it will exist as pollution forever after.
Since you're being pedantic so will I, plastic is not automatically waste and neither does it "exist as pollution forever after" - like all things plastic decomposes and, as it began as natural oils, so will it revert to. "it MIGHT be recycled once or twice" - right now the technology exists (but needs scaling up) to recycle ANY plastic back to base materials -what we need to do is be realistic and stop chucking this stuff away, collect it and recycle it, then it ceases to ever be waste.
Load More Replies...The Biggest Coin I've Seen. 100 Kg Pure Gold. Berlin, Germany
Which is no longer there since it got stolen in 2017 and was never retrieved Fun fact is the the coin has a face value of 1M CAD$ but is actually worth in excess of 4M CAD$
Apparently in 2020 the thieves were caught. It was stolen by 2 cousins, ages 18 and 20, at the time, which allowed them to be charged as juveniles. These 2 cousins were childhood BFFS with a security guard, working at the Bode, which is where the coin was stolen from. The cousins were sentenced to ~4.5 years in prison and fined approximately $4.3 million, the value of the coin. The security guard got 3yrs 4months in prison and ~$109k fine. This particular coin, they made 5 of them, belonged to a private owner who had loaned it to the Bore, and it was melted down by the thieves. It was the largest coin ever, until 2011, Australia came out with the Gold Kangaroo, weighing a whopping tonne(1012kg/2231lbs) w/a million dollar face value.
Load More Replies...Yeah bud, we're sorry. The winters are long and we get bored. We get up to all kinds of crazy stuff, this is one of the few things fit for display.
Load More Replies...This Star Wars Scene In A Spanish Wax Museum
Han Solo looks like Samuel Adams, and Luke looks like one of the members of Abba
And Princess Leia looks like ET. (Just Kidding. I know that's Yoda. Still just kidding. He's from the Galactic Senate. Still just kidding, even though he is.)
Load More Replies...Actually, yes. In one of the Senate scenes in the prequels you can see a group of his species of alien in one of the balcony thingies.
Load More Replies...Luke is upset because he just trying playing the E.T. Atari game.
It looks like there's a 3-eyed Jawa behind "Male Pattern Baldness Han". And why is Luke a woman?
World's First Meme Museum In Hong Kong
I'd like to believe that this represents the downfall of civilization, but I remember my Latin teacher telling me that the Ronan Coliseum used to have commercials, with Gladiators making product endorsements between battles, so I guess a Meme Museum is to be expected...
D-Day Model At The WWII Museum In New Orleans
Torture Masks, St. Augustine Torture Museum
so inventive when it comes to finding a way to kill our neighbor even better !
Load More Replies...These are probably fake. So many masks and torture devices were completely made up years after they were supposed to been used
Not really. If you're speaking of the iron maiden, then yes, it's never been used for what we thought long time. But there are a lot of torture devices that were widely in use. Some of those in the pictures are shown and described in reliable historical sources.
Load More Replies...Rage Against The Machine's Tour Van Is Featured In The Human Rights' Museum
They use force...To make you do...What the deciders HAVE DECIDED YOU MUST DO!
My Small Town Has One Of The Original Copies Of The Declaration Of Independence
"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'.
The Declaration of Independence was created to be published. 200 copies were made. 27 still exist. Voltaire famously commented that there were enough fragments of the "True Cross" (of the crucifixion of Jesus) to account for the entire forests of Lebanon. In fact, all the fragments in the world totalled 27 kg.
Load More Replies...There were at least 200 printed by John Dunlap, ensuring colonials could reproduce/spread it and George couldn't stop English people from knowing about it.
Bra Ball At The American Visionary Art Museum
I've been to this museum! Bra ball aside, it really is an amazing place full of interesting, beautiful, disturbing "outsider" art. I remember a display of a collection of small, exquisitely detailed embroideries created by a man while in prison, and he used threads from old socks to create it.
Origin story: Employees in the back of Value Village sorting clothing donations. Can't resell the bras, not good for use as rags. Bored empoyees start making a ball. Every shift sees how much they can add to the bra ball. One day a friend of the manager stops by and he happens to be the curator for a local museum.... /J
19th Century Skull From A Hydrocephalic Fetus, Royal College Of Surgeons' Museum, Edinburgh
I have been to this museum. They have strict rules about taking photos of human remains. I hope this was taken officially with permission.
I'm sorry, but this rule is kinda hypocritical. If you are so serious about protecting deceased human's dignity, you shouldn't display their remains in the museum.
Load More Replies...The Last Column At The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum
Hereās The Other Authentic Pirate Flag. It Resides In The Mexican History Museum In Monterrey, Mexico
Personal Bomb Shelter. Imperial War Museum
Not sure if it's still like that, but some years ago you were allowed to enter it! There's a seat inside. Suprisingly, I didn't feel claustrophobic, but again, no one was bombing me...
I've been in a concrete example in the Liberty museum in Groesbeek, the Netherlands.
Visited The Flower Exhibit At The Museum Today
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
Merman Exhibit At My Local Museum
That looks like something Mike Mignola (the creator of the Hellboy comic) would draw.
This looks like the exhibit at the Olde Curiosity Shoppe on the Seattle Waterfront, which also has a "child" with it - it is labelled "Thing and Son of the Thing."
I once read that mermaids supposedly had incredibly beautiful (siren) voices to lure you in - and then they'd drown you. This looks like it would eat you instead, lol.
Sirens can make them selves look beautiful if need be, but most of the time ships would crash before they even saw them.
Load More Replies...East Asian people used to sew the tails of fish to the tops of the monkeys, 'mummify' them and sell them as mermaids to European aristocracy
Art Museum Uses Glazed Ceramic Bits As Groundcover
Thomas Edison's Last Breath, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Michigan
Probably someone else's and he just put his name on it.
Load More Replies...If you put it to your ear, you can just hear him shouting "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB".
Half Of Charles Babbageās Brain Is Displayed At The Science Museum, London (The Other Half Is At The Hunterian Museum, Also London)
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.
Let's also give credit where credit is due. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She worked on the analytical engine, but was the first to recognize that is had applications beyond calculation.
Load More Replies...I keep getting mistaken for the curators of those two museums. People keep saying to me "If you had half a brain, ..."
I missed that when I was there several years ago, though I saw various Babbage/Lovelace exhibits.
Saw This Today At The National Museum Of Native American History
It's a contemporary glass sculpture of a fur seal, but it does look rather like Giger's alien design.
I thought it was the asteroid monster that tried to eat the Millennium Falcon.
Load More Replies...WW2 Tank Displayed At A Museum In Holland
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.)
Or maybe somewhere else in the Netherlands? It in the province of Utrecht.
Load More Replies...The reason it resembles swiss cheese is because it was used for target practice for a long time by the dutch military
Even though the Dutch yell "Hup Holland Huo" at sports events, there are only two Hollands in the Netherlands. The two provinces of Noord-Holland (North-Holland) and Zuid-Holland (South-Holland) can be found at the west coast, and are neither the northernmost nor the southernmost provinces.
The Chair Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated In, Henry Ford Museum
The man took a bullet to the head, I think it's fair to say that some of it likely landed on the chair, but I'm look it up. According to the tinterweb, tests show that the dark staining at the top is hair oil. As for blood, they found 'a positive result for two locations on the chairāone on the back, and the other on the front of the seat.'
Load More Replies...The upper stain was more likely to be from the oils and such they used on their hair. I believe it was said he slumped forward after being shot (understandable) band was laid on the floor of the box while Dr Leale assessed him. After, the actress Laura Keene (star of the play) cradled his head in her lap. It was said she showed the bloodstained spron she was wearing tonguests for years.
The Titanic Museum In Orlando Is Selling A Huge Piece Of Coal From The Titanic For 500,000 Dollars
When a wreck or similair is discovered, it is custom for the finders to claim it. This didnt happen with Titanic, for numerous reasons. This is why it is legal for everyone with the right lisence to basically plunder this graveyard.
A few years ago an international ban was implemented so nothing else can be brought up from the wreck site.
Load More Replies...Shoe Car That I Found In Some Museum
Apparently made by George Barris for Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races.
it's a giant shoe, duh. Every time a giant steps into it and walks around, it charges./jk
Load More Replies...A Gun Axe That I Found In A Museum
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.
An Exhibit At The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts
The Audio Guide At The Louvre Is A Nintendo 3DS XL
An Item At The Field Museum Was Removed Because It Was Inappropriate To Display It
From a Native American exhibit, something about legal issues concerning funerary artefacts, accoding to OP.
My DIL is an anthropologist and I know there are a lot of rules she has to follow with Native American dig sites and artifacts.
Load More Replies...Would it also have been inappropriate to tell the visitors what it was? Knowledge is power, but secrecy creates rumours and lies.
Froggyland, Museum Of The Best Taxidermy In The World In Split, Croatia
This must be some definition of the word "Best" that I was previously unfamiliar with...
WW2 Museum In France. Couldnāt Get Away With This Title Today
"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.
Right, so many people have more concern for what is said rather than what is done.
Load More Replies...If you visit the WWII museum in New Orleans you can see some very racist anti-Japanese propaganda posters. This was pretty much the norm back then.
This paper may have been printed before 'Japs' was deemed a slur and was simply abbreviated for typesetting - the rest of the text uses 'Japanese'. However, I will concede that the use of the word in this headline may have contributed to the skunkification of the word. (Skunked term - something I learned today from BPs thread about Wikipedia entries!)
Allowed to happen, even though the US knew about the decrypted message...corrupt Amerika
What is the blocked word? 1941...Nazi? It's a WW2 era paper, I'd expect that word to be there.
Itās āNazisā š¤¦āāļø you can see it uncensored if you click the grey link under the photo. I canāt believe they censored the word Nazis.
Load More Replies...An F-117 Stealth Bomber Delivered To A Museum But Stripped Of All Its Stealth Coatings And Instruments
I always thought the F117A was a stealth fighter (not bomber). Had to look it up. Turns out it was a fighter-bomber :)
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...Kinda surprised the penis museum in Iceland wasn't featured here, well... maybe not.
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).
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...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...Kinda surprised the penis museum in Iceland wasn't featured here, well... maybe not.
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).
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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