Comments on: 12 Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:08:44 +0000

Personally, I enjoyed the Crime & Punishment Museum in DC.

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By: anaximander

anaximander — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Bata Shoe Museum.

By: Bob Brown

Bob Brown — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:52:00 +0000

http://www.bilyclocks.org

The bily Clock Museum in Spillville (pronounced Speelville), Iowa is interesting.

The Bily brothers made lots of intricate moving clocks and many of them are still in that house. When I was there in the early 1990s there was a collection of random clocks that people had given to the museum (basic normal clocks including digital bedside clocks).

The upstairs is a special exhibit about the composer Antonin Dvorak who spent a summer there in 1893.

By: steph

steph — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:10:00 +0000

How about this one?
umbrellacovermuseum.tripod.com
I’ve never been there, but I read about it in some odd travel guide.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:59:00 +0000

There is actually also a SPAM museum in Austin, Texas.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:58:00 +0000

The “American Sanitary Plumbing Museum” in Worcester, MA. Most of us just called it the “Toilet Museum”. Sadly, it’s closed now :(

By: Nikole

Nikole — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:24:00 +0000

This list reads like a rundown of places Cash Peters visited in the writing of his book, Gullible’s Travels. I really miss his “Bad Taste Tours” segment on NPR’s sadly canceled “The Savvy Traveler.” I loved that show.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Vent Haven is actually an AMAZING place. It is divided into three different subsections that showcase different aspects of ventriloquism. Berger no longer is a guide of the place (he’s been dead for a while now), but there are two tour guides who do an excellent job. There is also an International ventriloquism convention that was started by Berger. If you ever get the chance you should try to go to this place. it’s only 5 bucks to get in and it is soooo amazing!