The World's Weirdest Museums

[SarahS]

Whether it was funny, scary or downright bizarre, what's the weirdest museum you've ever visited? Share your picks here!

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The World's Weirdest Museums

[Metravellongtime]

The strangest museum I've ever been to was definitely the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

It's not for the squeamish ... the museum houses hundreds of real body parts, babies in jars, skeletons, preserved corpses, brains, shocking photographs and other medical oddities.

But surprisingly, the museum is classy, quiet and informative. Despite the sensational nature of its artifacts, the Mutter Museum is more of a serious exhibition than a silly freak show. It's even suitable for mature children!

[ScottF4]

The Ramen Instant Noodle Museum

The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is a food amusement park devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Yo..._Raumen_Museum

[soliteyah]

The Ramen Instant Noodle Museum

The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is a food amusement park devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Yo..._Raumen_Museum

Haha, that's so funny! Have you been there? Was it cool?

[Host Bonjour]

Well, I don't know if it's "weird" to them, but might strike some as weird.

Hong Kong has a Tea Museum and I went to see it. It actually turned out to be very interesting as tea is a very important part of their culture. I didn't expect it to be much of anything and more or less only went inside because it had a/c and well, it was recommended to me by my friend who was living and working in HK and whom I had gone to visit.

But all the while - I was lingering a while outside before I went in and not many others had gone in - I thought what could this possibly be interesting and how much could there be about tea so that there would need to be a museum about it?

Turns out, a lot. As I said, it turns out it was interesting and it was a worthwhile visit and I was glad I went. But if you had ever told me I was going to a tea museum before I went to Hong Kong I'd have told you "yeah, I'll be there too, right after I finish the mustard museum"! (and now, someone will post and tell me they've been to a mustard museum....................ba da bum!

In case you're interested, the HK Tea Museum is located on HK Island, in Central and is very easy to find and is set amidst a lovely garden. And do go, you will be pleasantly surprised, as I was!!

[Big Apple Greeter]

I haven't been there, but this museum turned up when I was doing research for my master's thesis.

R-Lucky Star Ranch (http://www.rluckystarranch.com/)
Welcome to the home of the largest, organized, farm implement wrench collection in the world. The collection is housed in a former tractor shed located in Marsing, Idaho, that was turned into a Wrench Museum in 1996. The museum contains over 3500 wrenches which are displayed in alphabetical order by company. It is also home to the world's largest SUGAR SACK collection. We are always in the market to purchase unusual implement wrenches and cloth sugar sacks. The owner of this collection is the author of The History of Old Time Farm Implement Companies and the Wrenches they Issued.

[cariengon]

One of the wierdest one's I've been to is in Lima, Peru. The Museo de la Inquisicion is based on the Spanish Inquisition and how they tortured the locals to turn them into Christians...

[Phoenix]

One of my favorites is, alas, closed, but you can stills see some of its goodies here: http://www.museumofquackery.com/welcome.htm
This museum had such wonderful "medical" devices as a Phrenology Machine, and a disgnostic radio that could, purportedly, diagnose illnesses from many miles away. There were also any number of weird uses for electricity to cure just about everything.

I also loved my visit to the National Dairy Shrine in Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. (Look here: http://www.dairyshrine.org/visitors.asp)
It has what is probably the most extensive collection of artificial insemination devices on display. Icky, yet fascinating.

[Aredee]

How about The Mustard Museum of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin:


http://www.mustardweb.com/

[SHALOMZONE2007]

The strangest Museum I have gone to was the ****roach Museum in Plano, Texas. They have dead roaches dressed up like Liber-Roachy
and several others . They also claim to display the worlds Largest ****roach... but I have seen bigger ones in Houston....

[soliteyah]

The Mustard Museum! Haha, that one makes me laugh...

[Aredee]

The Mustard Museum! Haha, that one makes me laugh...

It's definitely a museum you can relish. It's a great place to catch up on your spices.