When we imagine a museum, we draw in our imagination a kind of boring place in which gray people scurry back and forth with scarves around their necks. Believe me, not all museums adhere to traditional rules. There are many unusual, and sometimes even strange museums that we want to tell you about today. Let's look at our selection of the strangest museums in the world.
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Hair Museum (Avanos, Turkey)
The Avanos Hair Museum is located in a small cave. Above the cave is a pottery shop. On the walls of the cave there are hair samples with the names and addresses of the owners, about 16,000 curls in total. The history of the museum began 35 years ago, when a friend of the owner of the pottery shop, Ces Galip, left a lock of hair in her memory. Any woman or girl can become part of the museum, leaving her lock of hair here.
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Museum of Bad Art (USA)
The Museum of Bad Art is a private institution founded by a group of enthusiasts. They collect, preserve and display bad art in all its forms. On what grounds are exhibits selected for this museum, we do not know, but visitors are always interested in considering the exhibition. The museum was founded in 1993 in the city of Dedham, then two branches appeared in the two cities of Somerville and South Waitmouth.
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Lawn Mower Museum (Southport, UK)
The Lawn Mower Museum is located in Southport and is one of the strangest museums that can be found in England. This museum has collected more than 200 lawn mowers of different brands, ages and with different histories. Some of them belonged to famous personalities, such as Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
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Underwater Museum (Cancun, Mexico)
This museum in Mexico is located on the seabed in the Cancun National Marine Park. This is one of the most unique and interesting museums in the world. Authorities conceived it to divert the attention of thousands of tourists from coral reefs that have already begun to collapse. At the bottom, 500 sculptures were lowered and installed, which were made of water-neutral clay. Over time, the sculptures themselves became home to corals and other marine life.
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Museum of Broken Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
Located in the beautiful Kulmer Palace of the Baroque era in the city of Zagreb, the museum invites visitors to plunge into the emotional world, which is left behind by the torn relations of loving people. Here are collected various things and gifts of former lovers.
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Museum of Oddities, Metamor, Indiana
The Museum of Oddities is located near the city of Cincinnati in the small village of Metamor. The two-story building has a collection of 2,000 bizarre artifacts hunted by the famous archaeologist Indiana Jones. Here you can see various works of art, relics related to the history of this region.
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International Museum of Toilets, Delhi, India
The Times called this museum the most unusual and strange museum in the world. He presents a collection of facts, photographs and objects that tell about the historical development of toilets from 2500 BC to the present. Here you can learn about the rules of toilet etiquette in different eras, about the toilet rituals of other nations and much more.
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Museum of Instant Noodles, Ikeda, Japan
This unusual museum is located in Ikeda, Japan. This place is considered the birthplace of instant noodles, which was invented by Momofuku Ando. Shows interactive compositions about the history of this food product. It seems ridiculous, but for the Japanese, this noodle once saved millions of lives from hunger. You can participate in fun workshops right at the museum.
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Museum of Sewerage, Paris, France
The Museum of Sewerage in Paris, as expected, is located in the sewer pipe under the promenade on the left bank of the Seine, almost in the center of the city. The museum is open to all comers. It will be especially interesting to lovers of engineering structures. The first tours of the Paris sewer were organized back in 1889.
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Torture Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The capital of the Netherlands has more than 50 interesting museums, but a strange and creepy torture museum stands out among all. It is located in the very center of the city. The museum is a vivid reminder of how terrible torture was carried out in Europe in the dark Middle Ages. The installation “Punishments and Sentences in the Middle Ages” contains more than 40 torture devices from different parts of Europe, from the inquisition chair to the guillotine.
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Vampire Museum, Paris, France
Another creepy museum is located in Paris and is dedicated to vampires and everything connected with them. It was founded by Jacques Sargeon, a very eccentric man, but knowledgeable in all sorts of mystical affairs. The museum has many interesting things, as well as a real set of protection against vampires of the 19th century.
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Collar Museum, Kent, UK
If you are interested in the history of the development of dog collars, then you need to visit the theme museum in Leeds Castle, England. The building of the XII century, once owned by the royal family. In 1979, the Museum of Dog Collars was founded here. The collection has over 100 collars, some of which are 500 years old.
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