WEIRDEST Museums In The World!
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Check out the weirdest museums in the world! From the bizarre hair museum or museum of bad art to the strange toilet and barbed wire museum, this top 10 list is absolutely amazing!\r
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11. International Cryptozoological Museum\r
Like so many museums on this list, this one is the only of its kind. The International Cryptozoological Museum in Maine, USA is a formal archival museum. \r
Cryptozoology is the study of hidden or unknown animals. This includes Bigfoot, the Yeti, and Sea Monsters. However, it also includes animals unproven to science. Animals that have been recently found were once considered cryptids, like the mountain gorilla, okapi, megamouth shark, and the coelacanth. Therefore, its not necessarily a branch of pseudo-science for the crazy.\r
According to their website, the International Cryptozoological Museums mission to educate, inform, and share cryptozoological evidence, artifs, replicas, and popular cultural items with the general public, media, students, scholars, and cryptozoologists from around the world. It came about in 2003 when the museum was founded by cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman.\r
The museums collection includes an 8-foot-tall representation of Bigfoot, one hundred footcasts believed to belong to Bigfoot, the Yeti, and others, a six foot-long model of a coelacanth, and reproductions of fakes like the Fiji mermaid and furred trout. Cryptid-related props are also on display, such as The Mothman Prophecies Point Pleasant “police” outfit, the TVFreakylinks 22 foot wide “Thunderbird,” and some of Magnolias falling frogs. \r
The collection is shown in a fun and engaging manner because Coleman sees cryptozoology as a “gateway science”. Part of the mission of the museum is to spark the interest of young people in more popularly-accepted exploratory and research-oriented disciplines like biology and anthropology.\r
10. Icelandic Phallological Museum\r
The name of Reykjaviks Icelandic Phallological Museum probably gives you a hint as to the nature of its collection. This museum contains the largest collection of phallic specimens, most of which were gathered from land and sea mammals that live in Iceland. At present, the museum houses more than 215 penises and penile parts. It also contains four human penises and a so-called “elf” penis.\r
The museum itself got its start because of a joke. In 1974, Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson received a bulls penis as a gag gift. Hjartarson worked as the headmaster of a secondary school. After he was given the bulls penis, other teachers began bringing him whale penises to tease him further. I dont know how the ual gag-gift/tradition got started. Hopefully they didnt give him these gag gifts at school because I dont think that would have been very appropriate. Gradually, the idea arose to create a real collection of various penises and penile parts. In the 1990s, a museum was opened to show off the “growing” collection.\r
Hjartarsons son Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson inherited the collection from his father and now s as the museums curator.\r
9. The Museum of Bad Art\r
If you love art but maybe feel like what you picture in your mind isnt exly what comes out on paper, dont worry. Theres at least one place in the world that will showcase your art no matter how ugly people might say it is behind your back: The Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, Massachusetts. Their slogan is, “Art too bad to ignore.”\r
The collection began when founder Scott Wilson pulled the first piece, dubbed Lucy in the Field with Flowers, out of a trash heap. Since the museum opened its doors in 1994, it has horrified the eyes of all visitors. Its not enough for the art to just be ugly, however. Curator in Chief Michael Frank sifts through bad artwork from the world over, looking for art that has a special quality that sets it apart.\r
You wouldnt think a place like this would be popular but the gallery has opened branches in other parts of Massachusetts as well, both near Boston. Today, the collection consists of over 600 pieces.
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11. International Cryptozoological Museum\r
Like so many museums on this list, this one is the only of its kind. The International Cryptozoological Museum in Maine, USA is a formal archival museum. \r
Cryptozoology is the study of hidden or unknown animals. This includes Bigfoot, the Yeti, and Sea Monsters. However, it also includes animals unproven to science. Animals that have been recently found were once considered cryptids, like the mountain gorilla, okapi, megamouth shark, and the coelacanth. Therefore, its not necessarily a branch of pseudo-science for the crazy.\r
According to their website, the International Cryptozoological Museums mission to educate, inform, and share cryptozoological evidence, artifs, replicas, and popular cultural items with the general public, media, students, scholars, and cryptozoologists from around the world. It came about in 2003 when the museum was founded by cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman.\r
The museums collection includes an 8-foot-tall representation of Bigfoot, one hundred footcasts believed to belong to Bigfoot, the Yeti, and others, a six foot-long model of a coelacanth, and reproductions of fakes like the Fiji mermaid and furred trout. Cryptid-related props are also on display, such as The Mothman Prophecies Point Pleasant “police” outfit, the TVFreakylinks 22 foot wide “Thunderbird,” and some of Magnolias falling frogs. \r
The collection is shown in a fun and engaging manner because Coleman sees cryptozoology as a “gateway science”. Part of the mission of the museum is to spark the interest of young people in more popularly-accepted exploratory and research-oriented disciplines like biology and anthropology.\r
10. Icelandic Phallological Museum\r
The name of Reykjaviks Icelandic Phallological Museum probably gives you a hint as to the nature of its collection. This museum contains the largest collection of phallic specimens, most of which were gathered from land and sea mammals that live in Iceland. At present, the museum houses more than 215 penises and penile parts. It also contains four human penises and a so-called “elf” penis.\r
The museum itself got its start because of a joke. In 1974, Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson received a bulls penis as a gag gift. Hjartarson worked as the headmaster of a secondary school. After he was given the bulls penis, other teachers began bringing him whale penises to tease him further. I dont know how the ual gag-gift/tradition got started. Hopefully they didnt give him these gag gifts at school because I dont think that would have been very appropriate. Gradually, the idea arose to create a real collection of various penises and penile parts. In the 1990s, a museum was opened to show off the “growing” collection.\r
Hjartarsons son Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson inherited the collection from his father and now s as the museums curator.\r
9. The Museum of Bad Art\r
If you love art but maybe feel like what you picture in your mind isnt exly what comes out on paper, dont worry. Theres at least one place in the world that will showcase your art no matter how ugly people might say it is behind your back: The Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, Massachusetts. Their slogan is, “Art too bad to ignore.”\r
The collection began when founder Scott Wilson pulled the first piece, dubbed Lucy in the Field with Flowers, out of a trash heap. Since the museum opened its doors in 1994, it has horrified the eyes of all visitors. Its not enough for the art to just be ugly, however. Curator in Chief Michael Frank sifts through bad artwork from the world over, looking for art that has a special quality that sets it apart.\r
You wouldnt think a place like this would be popular but the gallery has opened branches in other parts of Massachusetts as well, both near Boston. Today, the collection consists of over 600 pieces.