Geoff Tibballs

The World's 100 Weirdest Museums (eBook, ePUB)

From the Moist Towelette Museum in Michigan to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When we think of the world's great museums, we tend to think of the Louvre, the Guggenheim or the Victoria and Albert. We do not immediately think of the Dog Collar Museum, the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, the Museum of Broken Relationships or Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum. Yet scattered across the globe are museums dedicated to every conceivable subject, from bananas to Bigfoot, lawnmowers to leprechauns, teapots to tapeworms, mustard to moist towelettes, and pencils to penises. Many are serious collections housed in grand buildings, others are located in tiny premises and are open to visitors by appointment only, often the result of one person's crazy lifetime obsession.

This book lists the world's 100 weirdest museums in order of quirkiness, encompassing such delights as The Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, a museum in Kentucky that houses 800 ventriloquists' dolls, the Museum of Bad Art in Massachusetts, the Paris Sewer Museum, the French Fry Museum in Bruges, the Museum of Contraception and Abortion in Vienna, the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Tennessee, Japan's Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum (quite possibly the world's only museum devoted to instant noodles), and the Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, home to Peter the Great's collection of oddities including deformed fetuses and the decapitated head of a love rival preserved in vinegar. After all, what holiday is complete until you have seen a 300-year-old decapitated human head in a jar?

Each entry will include address, contact and admission details, so the next time you are in Berlin there is no excuse for missing out on a visit to the Currywurst Museum, the world's leading museum dedicated to sausages in hot ketchup.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472136961
• Artikelnr.: 45696669

Autorenporträt

Geoff Tibballs is the author of the bestselling The Mammoth Book of Jokes and forthcoming The Mammoth Book of Dirty Jokes. He is a former journalist and press officer. He is now a full-time writer and has previously written the highly successful Business Blunders and Legal Blunders for Robinson. He lists his hobbies as sport, eating, drinking and avoiding housework. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

From the Contents:EUROPE
Austria
Condomi Museum
Nonseum
Azerbaijan
Baku Museum of Miniature Books
Belgium
Carrot Museum
French Fry Museum
Laundry Museum
Croatia
Museum of Broken Relationships
Czech Republic
Sex Machines Museum
Denmark
Bottle Peter Museum
Finland
Bonk Centre Museum
France
Corkscrew Museum
Museum of Automatons and Robots
Museum of Vampires and Legendary Creatures
Paris Sewer Museum
Wallpaper Museum
Germany
Deutsches Currywurst Museum
Gherkin Museum
Mousetrap Museum
Hungary
Szabó-Szamos Marzipan Museum
Iceland
Icelandic Phallological Museum
Italy
Bora Museum
Little Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Lithuania
Devils' Museum
Netherlands
Red Light Secrets, Museum of Prostitution
Torture Museum
Norway
Mini Bottle Gallery
Poland
Neon Museum
Russia
Kunstkamera
Spain
Museum of Funeral Carriages
Rezola Cement Museum
Sweden
Surströmming Museum
Turkey
Chez Galip Hair Museum

Republic of Ireland
National Leprechaun Museum

BRITAIN AND IRELAND
England
Cheshire
Cuckooland Museum
Cornwall
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
Cumbria
Cumberland Pencil Museum
Derbyshire
Vacuum Cleaner Museum
Devon
Barometer World Museum
Gnome Reserve
House of Marbles
Kent
Dog Collar Museum
Teapot Island
Lincolnshire
Bubblecar Museum
London
Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret
Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History
Merseyside
British Lawnmower Museum
Norfolk
Colman's Mustard Shop and Museum
Somerset
Bakelite Museum
Suffolk
Museum of Knots and Sailors' Ropework
Warwickshire
Jack Hampshire Pram Museum
West Yorkshire
Museum of Mental Health
Worcestershire
Forge Mill Needle Museum
Milk Bottle Museum
Scotland
Museum of Piping
Wales
Pembrokeshire
Telephone Box Museum
West Glamorgan
Baked Bean Museum of Excellence
Republic of Ireland
National Leprechaun Museum