Comments on: 12 Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History

By: chrism

chrism — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:09:44 +0000

What about the KOOL-AID museum! :)

By: j in pa

j in pa — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:04:15 +0000

One more attraction north of Philly (Doylestown) is the Mercer Museum, built by Henry Mercer in the early 1900′s to preserve pre-industrial era tools & artifacts –as he saw them being abandoned for machined items & newer inventions during his lifetime.

When you walk into the large museum, there’s a whaling boat hanging from the ceiling inside! Be sure to see the medical & dental exhibits and the Portable Vampire Killing Kit!

In addition to the 6-story museum, his tourable nearby house/castle and his tile factory are made completely out of poured concrete (‘by hand’ people!) because he had the forethought to prevent fire from destroying the collections!
You may remember his home (Fonthill) was featured on A&E’s “America’s Castles” series.

By: j in pa

j in pa — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:42:19 +0000

Do you know they do weddings at Mutter Museum in Philadelphia? Get hitched under those creepy-moving-eye-portraits-of-now-deceased-physicians in the large room upstairs (which actually has gorgeous old architecture by the way)! I think it was one of the coolest weddings & museums I’ve ever been to!

By: Jonascord

Jonascord — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:29:45 +0000

A truly odd place is the National Museum of Health and Medicine. It was on the grounds of Walter Reed, in DC, but is being moved to the Forest Glen Annex in Montgomery, MD. It’s 150 years of what happens when you got shot, blown up or other such Bad Things. One interesting exhibit is Gen. Dan Sickle’s leg. It was amputated after being shattered by a cannonball at Gettysburg. The bones are in a glass case, and Sickles would visit his leg every year on July 2. You can see the saw marks…

By: Sassy

Sassy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:47:14 +0000

How about the J. H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum in Central Illinois?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:18:27 +0000

The National Museum of Roller Skating.
http://www.rollerskatingmuseum.com

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:34:15 +0000

What about the Museum Of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, CA?
http://www.mjt.org/

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:53:59 +0000

How about a museum dedicated (at least in part) to Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, the only Mercury astronaut who never flew in space? -"BB"-

By: dirk alan

dirk alan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:14:31 +0000

everybody collects something – even if its just dust.

By: BTDT

BTDT — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:02:02 +0000

And the ramen museum in Yokahama – its made up to look like Yokahama of the late 30s
http://www.bento.com/phgal3.html

Focus is completely on ramen noodle soup