Posts Tagged ‘museums’
The Toaster Museum (previously at Boing Boing Gadgets) is still in fine shape after 15 years (!) online.
The revelation that somebody collects toasters often leads to the same reaction: awkward pause, nervous laugh, then: "…Toasters?" The pr... ...
In this video by Atlas Obscura, we're taken on a tour of a haunted Dollhouse Museum in Granbury, Texas. The museum has collected over 6,000 dolls since its opening in 2012. You'll find everything from Barbie dolls, to G.I. Joe dolls, miniature do... ...
The Testut-Latarjet Museum in Lyon, France is a must-see for lovers of the weird and the macabre. The museum contains display shelves full of chilling oddities and bizarre experiments. The pictures make it look like the basement of a mad scientist's la... ...
Museums, Historical Sites, Zoos, And Parks Global Market Report 2022 by The Business Research Company is the most comprehensive report available on the market, being wide-ranging both in terms of chronology and geography. It covers the historic period – 2016-2021, and the forecast period – 2022-2026, with additional forecasts for 2026-2031. The report helps gain ...
College student Rino Dubokovic has opened a Museum of Hangovers in Zagreb, Croatia. From CNN:
Exhibits include displays of objects people found inexplicably the morning after a ***** night, a room where visitors can test their reflexes after putting on "beer goggles," and an interactive section where they can share their own best and worst ...
In the above episode of the Museum of Modern Art's "The Way I See It," the patron saint of bad taste John Waters looks at Lee Lozano’s "Untitled" (1963). And below, legendary comedian and musician Steve Martin comments on work by American abstractionists Stanton Macdonald Wright and Morgan Russell.
"I don't generally care about theories," ...
As part of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' "Edward Hopper and the American Hotel" exhibition, the curators have created a brilliant installation and visitor experience that's seemingly made for Instagram. They built a physical version of Hopper's above painting "Western Hotel" (1957) and offered overnight stays inside the artwork. The overnight packages ...
While Adam was in DC recently for the Apollo 50th Anniversary celebration (and to do the final assembly on the wonderful Project Egress NASA escape hatch project), he visited the Smithsonian's Office of Exhibits Central (OEC). In a series of videos, he talks to Chris Emo, Head of Production, Carolyn Thome and Chris Hollshwander ...
When Florence Schechter discovered that there's a ***** museum in Iceland, but no ****** museum anywhere in the world, she was "pretty miffed." In fact, the only thing that came close was an online ****** museum in Austria.
"There is no physica... ...
For more than three decades, New York Sanitation worker Nelson Molina has picked personal treasures from the garbage he collects in East Harlem. Now totaling more than 45,000 cataloged items, Molina has an astounding personal wunderkammer of treasures from the trash. Nicolas Heller profiles him in this wonderful short documentary.
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