Weird wacky museums of the world
88Weird, odd, strange or just different
Thats what you could says about the museums I have found here. I really did not know what I was getting myself into when I decided to write this hub. I thought what a neat thing, a list of odd and weird museums. After looking at hundreds of pages of museums on the web, I came up with these. I am sure there are so many others out there that I have not found. I encountered broken links, museums closing or moving, and some just had no website at all, so I was not sure if they were valid museums. If you have been to a weird, odd or just plain different museum that is not on this list, Please let me know, I would love for this to be the complete list. Hope you enjoy it.
- Bob McCoy: founder of the The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices: museumofquackery.com
Dubbed 'The Quackery Hall of Fame,' the museum is the world's largest display of what the human mind has devised to cure itself without the benefit of either scientific method or common sense..
- The National Museum of Crime & Punishment
The National Museum of Crime & Punishment's mission is to provide guests of all ages with memorable insight into the issues of crime, crime fighting and solving, and the consequences of committing a crime in America.
The National Museum of Crime and Punishment has the following galleries..
A Notorius history of crime, Punishment, the consequense of crime, Crime fighting, CSI experience, and America's Most Wanted studio.
- Texas Prison Museum
The museum dedication to Texas prisons and the Home of Old Sparky, the decommissioned electric chair in which 361 were executed between 1924 and 1964.
- Meguro Parasitological Museum -Official Site-
Meguro Parasitorogical Museum Official website (English) Welcome to the world's only Parasitological Museum. Try to think about parasite without a feeling of fear.
- Barb Wire History
Devil's Rope Museum designed for students, teachers, historians and collectors who need informaiton about barbed wire history and collecting.
A Barbedwire Hat at the Museum of Barbedwire
- The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
- BURLESQUE Hall of Fame
Dedicated to the art of burlesque. Home of the worlds longest boa.
Photo of float at UFO festival
- The Glore Psychiatric Museum
The Glore Psychiatric Museum chronicles the 130-year history of what was once known as the “State Lunatic Asylum No. 2.” The Museum uses full-sized replicas, interactive displays, audio-visuals, artifacts, and documents to illustrate the history of t
Things removed from a patients stomach
- :: CCP - Mütter Museum ::
The Mütter Museum was founded to educate future doctors about anatomy and human medical anomalies. Today, it serves as a valuable resource for educating and enlightening the public about our medical past.
- www.phallus.is
The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains a collection of over eighty penises and penile parts.
- Wecome to Sulabh International Toilet Museum
Museums as repositories for the preservation and exhibition of the objects of historical, scientific and cultural interest are found all over the world. But rare are the museums that display the evolution of toilets and their various designs.
Wreath made of hair from Leila's Hair Museum
- Mustard Museum: All About Mustard
Mustard is the oldest condiment known. No one knows who first used mustard to flavor food.
The smoking museum, and no, you can't smoke there.
- Le musée du Fumeur
The Smoking Museum presents a practice as ancient as mankind ; it also provides a vantage point for the observation of changing behaviors.
Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast and museum
- INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM
The International Spy Museum is the first and only public museum in the United States solely dedicated to espionage and the only one in the world to provide a global perspective on this all-but-invisible profession.
KGB coat with buttonhole camera.
- National Museum of Funeral History
With over 20,000 square feet of exhibition space the National Museum of Funeral History is the largest educational center on Funeral Heritage in the United States and perhaps the world.
A carved fantasy coffin, one of twelve.
- Arizona Doll & Toy Museum
A constantly changing scenario of dolls and toys from yesterday as well as familiar modern playthings.
Worlds smallest museum
- Daisy BB guns - Daisy Airgun Museum in Historic DownTown Rogers Arkansas!
Welcome to the Daisy Museum in Rogers Arkansas! Home of the Daisy bb gun and Daisy air rifle historic collection.
Getting started in 1890's
- Frog Fantasies Museum & Gift Sho
The museum collection houses frogs in every shape, color, size, and material imaginable, that have been collected for over 60 years, and contains over 7,000 pieces.
Just a few of the many frog items on display here.
- Welcome to the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia Web Site
Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia On-Line Ordering Web Site
Worlds Largest Pez Dispenser
- The Banana Club Museum
Inside you will find the world's largest collection of banana related items, maintained at the same site in Altadena, CA since 1976, and moved to Hesperia, CA in 2006.
A Petrified Banana
- Guinness World Records Experience
Guinness World Records Attractions in Orlando an interactive museum. Visit a fun museum: Guinness World Records Attractions, in Orlando. While in Orlando, visit Guinness World Records Attractions.
Worlds Most Posionous
- National Farm Toy Museum
The National Farm Toy Museum located in Dyersville, Iowa is home to 30,000 John Deere, New Holland, Case IH, Massey Ferguson, Oliver, Farmall and Allis Chalmers licensed farm toys by manufacturers Ertl, SpecCast, Scale Models, and First Gear
1993 International Super WD9 McCormick
- THE BUNNY MUSEUM Invites you to hop on over! (626) 798-8848
THE BUNNY MUSEUM is a place devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational understanding of bunnies in nature, historically, and artistically.
This only a small part of the bunny collection.
There are so many museums that are weird, odd, strange or just plain different out there. I will continue you this list as Weird wacky museums of the world part 2.
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Great Hub, from bizarre to weird. I enjoyed it.
In South Africa we have, or had a SA Police museum which had a number of oddities in it, a skull with a knife embedded into it, the owner of the skull walked around with the knife in it for 10 years.
Wow, that is interesting. Thanks for your comment!
I had alot of trouble finding museums outside of the USA. I just don't know if the resources are there. But I will try and continue my search for the wacky and weird in part2.
Too funny! Should I be concerned if more than a couple of these are places my boyfriend would <love> to go?
Thanks Nicole for your comment. I am not sure if you should be too concerned if your boyfriend would love to see a few of these places, I would too. Ok maybe thats not the best argument to help him out.
very interesting my dear....who would'a guessed...Strange things we humans keep for the future generations???Thanks for all the work you went though,,,G-Ma :o) hugs
Thank you G-Ma. It was alot of work but was also alot of fun. There is some very interesting stuff out there in the world.
How fun! I love museums, and a lot of these are just the things I'd like to see... that photo of the things found in a patient's stomach is totally something that would fascinate me!
wow!! this is a very neat hub! thanks for sharing with us :D
Your welcome. I find it pretty fascinating myself. I would really like to visit the crime and punishment museum. They have the CSI exhibit where you can try to solve a crime, that would be so much fun.
Thanks for the comments!
Great list of the bizarre! There are a few in England that might be worth adding that are odd - for example the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring now renamed last year the Natural History Museum (not THE Natural History Museum) which has stuffed animals of all types including one of every known species of zebra!
Thanks Julie-Ann for the information tht will be a great addition for Weird wacky museums of the world part 2.
There's a part 2? Wow definitely consider some of the Uk ones then - you have no idea how weird we are...
Part 2 is in the works and hopefully will be released soon. Weirdeness is good, it gives me something to write about.
Quite enjoyable read for a "lunchtime" diversion! Thanks for the entertainment!
Great collection. I've been to the Mutter Museum a couple times, and I must say it is very odd and well, sometimes a bit gross! haha my little brother loved it when I took him there.
Brilliant hub great read. look forward to part 2.
Loved these interesting, creative and even strange and wacky ideas.
My personal favourite is on the Algarve, in Portugal - the Dried Fruit Museum.
Thank you sixtyorso. Part 2 has already been published. Thanks for the nice comment.
Dottie1, glad you enjoyed it.
2patricias, I had never heard of that museum. That would be an interesting one to add. Thank you.
The one with the parasites - YUCK! I could never go there. Not sure that I'd want to stay in the Lizzie Bordon B & B.
These are funny, great hub Gwendymom!
I just remembered the Insect Museum in Victoria, British Columbia. I took a group of students there and we had a lot of fun. I want to go back.
Shirley-I'm pretty darn sure I'm not gonna stay at the lizzie Borden B&B either, too scary. I'd rather go to the parasite museum. Thanks for your comment.
Patty, I think an insect museum would be alot of fun to see. I really think I'd like the crime and punishment museum, I want to solve a crime in that CSI exhibit.
Wow! There are some strange things out there.
Thank you.
RGraf, Thhere are some strange things out there, I wish I could see them all, I love the weird and strange. Thanks for stopping by.
wow.. wish we have those here.. well.. besides the skulls house which the victims were beheaded by a legendary headhunte... nice article tho.. really like em.. thanx..
Great hub. I'd like to visit some of these - but not all.
Funny.
It is great that some people really put up and organize these museums and displays. Like other 'normal' museums, they also teach us many things and make us more aware of our surroundings.
gwendymom Hub Author 3 years ago
Again some of the links that I had on here did not work, even after I tested them multiple times! So frustrating.