It is hard to imagine that there are museums in the world whose exhibits are hair items, dead cockroaches dressed up in various costumes, human organs, disgusting paintings ... Nevertheless, they not only exist, but also cause interest and are very popular among tourists.
We have compiled a rating of the ten most unusual museums in the world, which contain very strange exhibits, thereby attracting a huge number of visitors.
List
- 10. Leila Hair Museum | Independence, USA
- 9. Phallus Museum | Husavik, Iceland
- 8. Museum of death | Hollywood, USA
- 7. Museum of the souls of the dead in Purgatory | Rome, Italy
- 6. Museum of the human body Leidlen, the Netherlands
- 5. International Toilet Museum | Delhi, India
- 4. Dog Collar Museum | London, Great Britain
- 3. Museum of Bad Art | Boston, USA
- 2. Museum of German Sausages Carrivurst | Berlin, Germany
- 1. Cat Museum | Kuching, Malaysia
10. Leila Hair Museum | Independence, USA
Ms. Leila's hair museum has a large collection of different hair items. So, for example, 500 wreaths of locks of hair are exhibited in the museum, and also, in the collection, there are more than 2,000 pieces of all kinds of jewelry that use human hair: earrings, brooches, pendants and more. All exhibits date back to the 19th century.
By the way, in Cappadocia (Turkey), there is another museum where you can see human hair. The founder of the museum is potter Chaz Galip. Despite the fact that this museum appeared not so long ago - its collection has about 16 thousand locks of female hair.
9. Phallus Museum | Husavik, Iceland
Another rather strange, to say the least, museum. It would seem to whom it might occur to create a museum dedicated to penis? Such a person turned out to be a 65-year-old history teacher. The museum has over 200 exhibits. Penises are in various glass vessels with a formalin solution. Here are presented organs, both of the smallest sizes - hamsters (2 mm long), and the largest - of a blue whale (part of the penis 170 cm long and weighs 70 kg). In the collection, so far, there are no human genitals, however, one volunteer already bequeathed his "dignity" to this unusual museum.
8. Museum of death | Hollywood, USA
The museum was originally housed in a morgue building in San Diego in 1995. Later, he reopened in Hollywood. The following exhibits are presented in the museum's collection: funeral paraphernalia - wreaths, coffins, etc. photos of serial killers, bloody road crashes, executions, crime scenes; photo and video of the autopsy in the morgue; various embalming and surgical instruments. Also, the museum has a hall dedicated to suicides and suicide, as a phenomenon in general. Among the exhibits there is even an embalmed head of a serial maniac and a killer of women - Henri Landry, nicknamed “Bluebeard”.
7. Museum of the souls of the dead in Purgatory | Rome, Italy
This museum is located in the church of Del Sacro Cuore. The main theme of the museum exhibits is the proof of the existence of the soul and its presence on earth (ghosts). For example, in the collection there is such an artifact - a night hat, on which a ghost palm print remains. Also, there are many other objects exhibited with fingerprints and soles, which, according to the people who provided these artifacts, were left by ghosts.
6. Museum of the human body Leidlen, the Netherlands
This original museum is located near Leiden University. The building itself is a 35-meter human figure, where on each floor you can see how various human organs and systems look from the inside and function. The museum is very interactive, it imitates various sounds inherent in one or another organ, shows various processes occurring in the human body - reproduction, respiration, digestion, injuries of one or another organ. This is a very interesting and informative place.
5. International Toilet Museum | Delhi, India
A very interesting museum dedicated to all the famous subject of hygiene - the toilet. All exhibits, one way or another, are related to the toilet theme: urinals, toilet paper, toilet bowls, etc. The museum was first created by a scientist from India who devoted his life to studying the problems of utilization of human feces and their subsequent processing in order to obtain electricity. In total, the museum has several thousand items, the oldest of which is about 3000 thousand years old. In fact, it is not surprising that such a museum is located in India, because In this country, the sanitary and epidemiological problem is very acute.
4. Dog Collar Museum | London, Great Britain
This museum is located in Leeds Castle near London. The range of exhibits covers five centuries and includes everything from strict collars designed to control hunting dogs to stylish and shiny accessories made in the 21st century.
3. Museum of Bad Art | Boston, USA
The idea of creating such an unusual museum, antiquarian Scott Wilson, was prompted by the painting “Lucy in a field with flowers” that he saw in a trash can, after which he decided that such “works of art” should be collected in a collection. Here are the works of artists that have not been evaluated by any other museum in the world, and by the way, it is not clear by what criteria they can be evaluated. The museum exposition has about 500 items.
2. Museum of German Sausages Carrivurst | Berlin, Germany
In fact, in the world there are many museums dedicated to various products, for example, canned food or bananas located in the USA. Curry sausages are a kind of fast food in German. They are very popular among residents of Germany, so there is nothing strange in the fact that there is a museum that talks about this part of German cuisine. In this museum you can see what ingredients this dish is made from, visit the seller’s place, in a very realistic stall (there is even the sound of a boiling kettle and fry food), try to determine spices by smell or compete with a machine in the speed of cooking sausages. Also, at the exit from the museum, you will be offered to taste real German curry sausages.
1. Cat Museum | Kuching, Malaysia
Cats are one of the most common pets in the world, so it is not surprising that there is a whole museum dedicated to them. Even the name of the city is Kuching, in Malaysian it means “cat”. The museum presents a lot of objects: figures, drawings, photographs, postcards and more. There is also information about the habits, types and physiology of these animals.