Visiting Museums are very interesting to every one; kids and adults. It’s not only aim to educate or show the development‘s nations and people, its introduce the weird things and wonders to public, moreover having fun to everyone; epically kids. The British museum and The Louver are symbol of traditional museums, where’s in the capital of any country, showing the ancient antics and monuments to the world. But other museums take different path and show the most different and strangest things, and if we deep looking, we well find very strange museums could never been thinking about. I search in Europe, and I found some strange museums, these museums are some of it.
- PLASTINARIUM , GUBEN, GERMANY:-
The unusual museum was founded in 2006, by Gunther von Hagens, after years of studding medicine. It offers great opportunity to study the history of anatomy, preservation techniques and development of Plastination and it’s also holds many workshop of with stations of the individual body systems, the Anatomical Dissection and Positioning. You‘ll see 2 full size Giraffes out of their skin and many internal organs to many animals, like reindeer and elephant.
The master piece of this museum is the show-room which has 3 sections, first the “Silicone plastinates” which includes real palatinatesing human organs and real whole human bodies without skin in different shape showing the structure of our muscles. You need know this human body was donated, by their sold owner after their death to the museum. The second section “Blood Vessel configurations” which you will see the perfect whole blood vessel system to human bodies and some inner blood. The third section is “Slice plastinates” which shows slices of real bodies. The museum opens his door every day. You can times of visiting from Here.
- The Dog Collar museum, London, England :-
Dogs had always been part of the English life especially to the Aerostatics people. The Dog Collar museum presents developing of dog collars in fun way to everyone. Also, it has the largest number of dog collars over the globe.
You can see the earliest the Spanish heard iron dog collar in the 15th century to mastiff bread to protect dog from the wolf and bears at the time, and other collars in the 16th century made in German from iron with fearsome spikes and ornate gilt and other collars from Baroque ears and modern life, which made from tyres and plastic. The museum was founded in 1977, by Mrs. Gertrude Hunt to memorize her husband and presented the first collection of dog collars in The Leeds Castle.
The Leeds Castle is time machine take you to fascinating Journey. The first stone was put, in 1119, on an island in the River Len and was place to 6 queens and place to Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon and contained 2 different museums addition of the dog collars museum, The Gatehouse Exhibition and Battle for the skies. You can buy ticket online to visit from here
- The Icelandic Phallological Museum, Iceland :-
Museum of penises, Can You Imagine?
This museum contains collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. More than 200 penises and penile parts from land or sea mammal creatures in that strange museum, it contains their specimens from different kind; like whales, rogue polar bear, seal and walrus or other kinds of land mammal. This museum is opening window to study Philology without any borders.
The museum laid when Sigurður Hjartarson, the founder, found bull‘s penis when he was at 7 years he continued to collect them from other species, until he established his museum in Reykjavík in August 1997. You can know the location of museum by here.
All these museums are example of strange museums in one continent. If anyone seeks in his country or traveler in his destination, he well find one. Some museums choose very strange way and items presents to public regardless any consideration of anyone. However museums well be the are best places to know the people and civilization developing and creatures; regardless of showing way and the unique items of it .
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