{"id":859023,"date":"2024-10-16T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/?p=859023"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:37:24","slug":"top-10-most-unusual-museums-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/top-10-most-unusual-museums-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f Top 10 most unusual museums in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you have already visited the exhibitions from our previous selection<\/a>? Because we continue and expand the list with the next ten most unusual museums in the world. It will be funny, creepy and even a little disgusting.<\/p>\n

Microbe Museum (Micropia), Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Go visit the microbes? Easily! The Micropia Museum<\/a> is great for getting to know these inhabitants of our planet. The purpose of the exhibition is to present microbes in the best possible light.<\/p>\n

They are usually associated with diseases. In fact, microbes are not only harmful, but also useful.<\/p>\n

All exhibits are divided into several categories. These are mainly microbes that are involved in the fermentation process of foods, and are also part of vaccines and viruses. The funniest exhibition is probably “Mouth to Mouth”. After her, kisses no longer seem so sweet.<\/p>\n

Parasite Museum (Meguro Parasite Museum), Tokyo<\/a>, Japan<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I recommend eating in advance before visiting the exhibition, because afterward you may lose your appetite for some time.<\/p>\n

The museum building houses more than 60 thousand parasite samples. Most of them are located in the research laboratory on the upper floors of the building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the ground floor, parasites and their animal carriers are stored in three hundred glass bottles filled with formaldehyde. This exhibition will show the diversity of small pests. There's a lot to see<\/a> here, from common roundworms and tapeworms, parasite eggs to malaria specimens. On the second floor of the museum there are exhibits that people can become infected with. Including from pets.<\/p>\n

Whose idea was it to create such a place? Doctor of Medical Sciences Sator Kamagei. In the 50s, when hygiene in Japan left much to be desired, he began his “hunt” for parasites. I just traveled around Japan and collected samples. And now, more than half a century later, the museum can be visited completely free of charge. Those who wish can support their existence by buying souvenirs: shoppers, T-shirts and all sorts of badges, and not what you thought.<\/p>\n

Sulabh International Toilet Museum, New Delhi, India<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Since we're talking about hygiene, you shouldn't ignore the toilet museum. Such exhibitions operate all over the world. One of them is located in India and is part of the International Social Service Organization Sulabh. It was founded by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, who became a reformer in his country. He directed his efforts to improve sanitary standards and hygiene for all segments of the population.<\/p>\n

The museum introduces the evolution of sanitation over thousands of years. There you can also learn about technological advances in the field of sanitation, customs<\/a> and legislation. Of course, the exhibition presents samples of toilets dating back to ancient times.<\/p>\n

International Spy Museum, Washington<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Want to feel like a spy? The International Spy Museum will help with this, where in a playful way visitors can touch the world of secrets and intrigues of the political backstage. Of course, no one is going to expose hitherto classified objects and documents to the general public. But the museum has a fairly large collection of exhibits and artifacts. Thanks to them, we can understand the impact of intelligence operations on world history. In addition to photographs and documentation obtained by spies, the exhibition features encryption machines, counterfeit currency, disguised weapons<\/a>, mini-cameras, radio transmitters and even hiding places.<\/p>\n

There were also pop cultural items from<\/a> films and shows. For example<\/a>, ” Mission Impossible<\/a> ” or “The Avengers”. Here you can find a lipstick-shaped gun and a recreated Aston Martin DB5.<\/p>\n

For active visitors, there is an interactive exhibition, something like a quest, during which you can try<\/a> on the role of a secret agent.<\/p>\n

The Mummy Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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In the Museum of Mexican Mummies, you will not see the usual luxurious sarcophagi with the bodies of rulers and rich people carefully laid out in them. Although the found remains were buried in coffins, and the crypts containing them were walled up, all other mummification processes in this area were carried out by nature itself, and not by human hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apparently, this is why the mummies here are gloomy and creepy, put on public display without the right to rest peacefully. Despite this, there are always crowds of people wanting to look at the remains and even take a couple of pictures with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Therefore, a museum was opened at the burial site. It features more than a hundred mummies, mostly former inhabitants of Guanajuato from the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum also boasts the smallest mummy in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dog Collar Museum, Broomfield, UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The unusual museum was placed in the former stables of Leeds Castle in Broomfield, England, almost 50 years ago. Its creator, Gertrude Hunt, opened the exhibition in honor of her deceased husband. Both were avid collectors with a penchant for special items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And this is a truly unique selection of dog jewelry. The oldest is the collar of a Spanish purebred mastiff, who lived at the end of the 15th century. In total, the collection contains more than 130 rare and quite expensive collars, from iron ones topped with sharp-toothed spikes to luxurious ones covered with gold.<\/p>\n

This museum is ideal for dog lovers, young and old. But the question remains whether Airedale terrier Archie can go to the museum to see what kind of collar his great-great-grandmother wore.<\/p>\n

Avanos Hair Museum, Avanos, Turkey<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Not far from Cappadocia, which we talked about here<\/a>, with its Martian landscapes, is the small town of Avanos.<\/p>\n

Its history<\/a> associated with pottery goes back several thousand years. However, an unusual museum opened by potter Chez Galip in a store under his workshop has become popular among tourists. The walls of the room are covered from top to bottom with locks of women's hair of different colors and lengths.<\/p>\n

According to the legend that the master tells visitors, he said goodbye to a close friend and asked her to leave him something as a keepsake. The friend couldn\u2019t think of anything better than cutting off a lock of her hair. The potter placed it on the wall of his workshop and began to tell this story to all visitors. Women who were touched by Chaz's story also began leaving their hair as a keepsake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there is another reason why women are so willing to leave not only their hair, but also their contact information. Once or twice a year there is a competition in which the best curl is chosen. And his former owner receives an invitation to relax in Chez Galep's guest house and attend his master classes on creating ceramic products.<\/p>\n

The exhibition first opened in 1979. And at the moment, the wall of the museum is decorated with more than 16 thousand samples, thanks to which it was included in the Guinness Book of Records.<\/p>\n

Ready to head into the “hair cave”?<\/p>\n

Museum of the Odd, Lawrence, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Randy Walker from Kansas has been a collector since he was 12 years old. A few decades later, he opened a museum in his house. True, the main requirement for collection items is that they should be slightly strange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to things made “out of nothing,” such as monkeys made from socks, people made from lids, or flowers made from aluminum cans, you can see things from celebrities in the museum. For example<\/a>, Bob Barker's toothbrush, Elvis Presley's underwear, hair and toenail, or Charles Manson's signature.<\/p>\n

The collection includes interior<\/a> items made from animal limbs, photographs of the dead in coffins, clumps of cow hair and even elephant excrement with an image of Adolf Hitler. To some hate towards the museum's exhibits, Walker responds that everyone has the right to manifest themselves as they please.<\/p>\n

The Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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For consolation for a broken heart, you should go to Croatia. Initially, the “Museum of Broken Relationships” was mobile, but as its collection grew, it settled in Zagreb. Its exhibits are personal items or gifts<\/a> from exes with a brief history of the item.<\/p>\n

The idea of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bcreating the museum belonged to a separated couple from Zagreb, who as a joke wanted to create a storage room for their belongings after breaking up. But the joke got out of control and grew into a real museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Franz Kafka Museum, Prague<\/a>, Czech Republic<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Museums dedicated to outstanding personalities and their activities have become quite commonplace. But what if this person is Franz Kafka, famous for his chilling books about paranoia, purgatory and various horrors?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Upon entering the museum, visitors are greeted by sculptures of two men peeing, standing in a bowl whose outlines resemble the borders of the Czech Republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The museum itself is divided into two exhibitions. The first presents objects from the author's real life, his manuscripts and photographs<\/a>. And in the second – “the fictional world of Kafka.” It is dark, with creepy installations from his stories. For example, a copy of the torture machine from the story “In the Correctional Colony.”<\/p>\n

To complete the experience, the exhibition is accompanied by groans, barely audible whispers and the rustling of a pen on sheets of paper, as if Franz Kafka was still working on a new story. Read here<\/a> what else to see in Prague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tired of typical museums? Find out about 10 of the most unusual and eccentric museums in the world. From a hair collection to a museum of broken hearts, a journey through the strangest and most fascinating exhibitions on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1179,2709,2509,2199,2749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-ideen-trends-inspiration-en","category-reisen-en","category-urlaubsideen-en","category-interessante-fakten-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}