Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
I plugged the Kircher Society's Lesser Known Museum Week earlier in the week when they kicked it off, and it has only gotten more interesting since. Here's the list so far, and I'll update if they add more:
Museum of the Souls in Purgatory
The Museum of the Hunt and Nature
The Museum of the Past for the Fuure
The Museum of Medical Meteorology
World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things
Of course I love the Frog Museum.
Check them all out. It's a fascinating wander.
TrackBackI've been to the Capuchin crypt in Rome, but not the one in Palermo. Absolutely amazing. I wouldn't mind that happening to me someday, I think.
Posted by: Becks at July 21, 2006 10:15 AMI once spent an afternoon at the Robert-Houdin museum in Blois. Houdin was a magician/inventor who took magic from the streetcorner to the theatre. Many of his illusions were on display and the museum guide put on a little show for me. Houdin also included automina in his shows, and there were some still in good working condition.
It seems his hobby was collecting stuff birds, so about half the museum was taken up with those.
Posted by: Charles Watkins at July 21, 2006 12:27 PMThis thread (and the prior one) caused me to poke around and find the particulars of a really creepy little museum I saw in Florence some years back.
It's part of the Museo di Storia Naturale of the University of Florence. The collection is called the Zoologia "La Specola" and it contains (among other things) life-sized wax models of human innards. You'll see what I mean when you follow this link:
http://www3.unifi.it/msn/CMpro-v-p-98.html
Warning: The site is in Italian, but the pictures are not... :)
Posted by: NCProsecutor at July 21, 2006 02:09 PMOh! And I'm going to the Mütter Museum next weekend! Woo!
Posted by: Becks at July 21, 2006 09:44 PMWe have a couple of good ones: The American Dime museum; and the American Visionary Art museum.
Posted by: shpx.ohfu at July 22, 2006 09:19 AM