If you visited a lot of museums and you are bored with the exhibits presented in them, we advise you to pay attention to the fact that in different parts of the world there are museums devoted to the most unusual things. Sometimes, even, it is difficult to imagine that in the world there is a museum, exhibits in which are dead cockroaches dressed up in various costumes or, for example, guillotines, lawn mowers, carriages. Nevertheless, all the unusual, often, is of great interest.
So, today we have prepared for you a rating of Top 10 The most unusual museums of the world , in which we will tell about the most amazing and interesting museums of the world and their strange exhibits.
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Leila's Hair Museum Independence, USA
The Leila's hair museum has a large collection of various hair products. For example, the museum exhibits 500 wreaths of hair strands, and, in the collection, there are more than 2,000 copies of various ornaments that use human hair: earrings, brooches, pendants and so on. All exhibits date back to the 19th century.
By the way, in Cappadocia( Turkey), there is another museum in which you can see human hair. The founder of the museum is potter Chez Galip. Despite the fact that this museum appeared not so long ago - its collection has about 16 thousand locks of female hair.
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Museum of the phallus Husavik, Iceland
Another rather strange, if not more, museum. It would seem, who can come up with a museum dedicated to sexual members? This person turned out to be a 65-year-old history teacher. The museum has more than 200 exhibits. The penises are in different glass vessels with formalin solution. Here are represented the organs of the smallest size - hamsters( 2 mm long) and the largest ones - of the blue whale( part of the genital organ is 170 cm long and weighs 70 kg).In the collection, while there are no human genitals, however, one volunteer already bequeathed his "dignity" to this unusual museum.
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Museum of Death Hollywood, USA
One of the most unusual museums in the world - the museum of death, began its work in 1995.Originally, the museum was located in the building of the morgue, in San Diego. Later, the museum again opened in Hollywood. In the collection of the museum the following exhibits are presented: funeral paraphernalia - wreaths, coffins and so on;photos of serial killers, bloody road accidents, executions, crime scenes;photo and video autopsy in the morgue bodies;various instruments for embalming and surgical operations. Even in the museum there is a hall dedicated to suicides and suicide, as a phenomenon in general. Among the exhibits, there is even the embalmed head of a serial maniac and murderer of women - Henri Landry, nicknamed "Bluebeard."
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Museum of Souls in Purgatory Rome, Italy
This museum is located in the church of Del Sacro Cuore. The main theme, which is devoted to the exhibits of the museum, is the proof of the existence of the soul and its presence on the earth( reduction).For example, in the collection there is such an artifact - a night headdress, on which there was an imprint of the palm of the ghost. Also, here are exhibited many other items, on which there were traces of fingerprints, soles and other traces, which, according to people who provided these artifacts, were left by ghosts.
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Museum of the Human Body Building Leiden, Netherlands
This original museum is located near the University of Leiden. The building itself is a 35-meter figure of a man, where on each floor you can see how the inside look and function of various human organs and systems. The museum is very interactive, it imitates various sounds inherent in this or that organ, shows the various processes occurring in the human body - reproduction, respiration, digestion, trauma of an organ. This is a very interesting and informative place, rightfully considered one of the most unusual museums in the world.
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International Toilet Museum Delhi, India
Very interesting and unusual museum dedicated to all known hygiene items - toilet bowl. All the exhibits in this museum, in one way or another, are associated with toilet themes: 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 for the purpose of generating electricity. In total in the museum, there are several thousand subjects, the oldest of which is about 3000 thousand years old. In fact, it is not surprising that such a museum is located in India, becausein this country the sanitary-epidemiological problem is very acute.
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Dog Collar Museum London, United Kingdom
This museum is located in Leeds Castle near London. The range of museum exhibits covers five centuries and includes everything from strict collars created to control hunting dogs to stylish and brilliant accessories made in the 21st century.
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Museum of Bad Art Boston, USA
The thought of creating such an unusual museum, the antiquary of Scot Wilson, was prompted by the painting "Lucy in the field with flowers" he saw in the garbage can, after which he decided that this kind of "works of art"in the collection. Here are the works of artists who have not been evaluated by any other museum in the world, and by the way, it is unclear by what criteria they can be evaluated. The museum exposition has about 500 subjects. Since this kind of museum is the only one in the world, it deserves the title of one of the most unusual museums in the world.
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Museum of German sausages sausage Berlin, Germany
Is it very unusual museum? In fact, there are a lot of museums in the world devoted to various products, for example, preserves or bananas located in the USA.Sausages are a kind of fast food in German. They are very popular among the inhabitants of Germany, so there is nothing strange in that there is a museum telling about this part of the German cuisine. In this museum you can see the ingredients from which this dish is prepared, to visit the seller's place, in a very realistic stall( there is even the sound of a boiling kettle and frying food), try to determine the spices by smell or compete with the machine at the speed of cooking sausages. Also, at the exit from the museum, you will be offered to taste real German sausage curry.
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Cat Museum Kuching, Malaysia
Cats are one of the most common pets in the world, so it's no wonder that there is a whole museum dedicated to them. In the Malaysian cat museum, everything is dedicated to these lovely fluffy, purring creatures. Even the city's name is Kuching, in Malaysian it means "cat".The museum has many items: figurines of cats, drawings, photographs, postcards and so on. Also, there is information about the habits, species and physiology of these animals.
By compiling this list, the top 10 most unusual museums in the world were based on our own preferences, while trying to select the most interesting and worthy of attention museums in the world. Also, it should be noted that there are still many interesting museums in the world, some of them were mentioned in this article.