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    50 Museums to Blow Your Mind

    By Ben Handicott and Kalya Ryan

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    Thank the stars for the world's eccentric collectors; hoarders of objects beautiful, strange or downright odd. It is these documentors of the great and trivial - who want to show us all something wonderful about their collections and share the insights into humankind each of them illuminates - who have created the most fascinating, wonderful and precious museums the planet has to offer.

    Boggle at the enormity of space, get nostalgic at childhood memories or be dumbstruck by the International Museum of Toilets... Whether you're a history buff, tech-head or have an inexplicable fascination with clowns, you'll find world-class collections here to pique your interest.

    Never drag your heels around a dull museum again!

    Then & now // History museums

    • Acropolis Museum // Greece
    • British Museum // UK
    • Forbidden City // China
    • Goethe House & Goethe Museum // Germany
    • Imperial War Museum // UK
    • Museum of Alchemists & Magicians of Old Prague // Czech Republic
    • Museum of Mummies of Guanajuato // Mexico
    • National Museum of Anthropology // Mexico
    • Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret // UK
    • Prison Gate Museum // The Netherlands
    • Sir John Soane's Museum // UK
    • Styrian Armoury // Austria
    • Torture Museum // The Netherlands
    • Vasa Museum // Sweden
    • Viking Ship Museum // Norway
    • Whitney Plantation // USA

    The world around us // Natural history museums

    • Kunstkamera // Russia 6
    • Messner Mountain Museum // Italy
    • Sarawak State Museum // Malaysia
    • Smithsonian Institution // USA

    Human creativity // Art & culture museums

    • American Classic Arcade Museum // USA
    • Belgian Brewers Museum // Belgium
    • Burlesque Hall of Fame // USA
    • Coffee Museum // Brazil
    • Erawan Museum // Thailand
    • Ghibli Museum // Japan
    • Grammy Museum // USA
    • The Green Vault // Germany
    • Museum of Childhood // UK
    • Musical Instruments Museum // USA
    • Soumaya Museum // Mexico
    • Vodka Museum // Russia

    Things that go // Science & technology museums

    • Bicycle Museum of America // USA
    • Big Hole & Open Mine Museum // South Africa
    • Exploratorium // USA
    • National Maritime Museum // France
    • National Rail Museum // UK
    • New Mexico Museum of Space History // USA
    • New York City Fire Museum // USA
    • Pencil Museum // UK
    • Porsche Museum // Germany
    • Sewer Museum // France
    • Sulabh International Museum of Toilets // India

    Peculiar passions // Quirky museums

    • Avanos Hair Museum // Turkey
    • Clown Hall of Fame & Research Centre // USA
    • Cupnoodles Museum // Japan
    • Gopher Hole Museum // Canada
    • International Cryptozoology Museum // USA
    • Museum of Broken Relationships // Croatia
    • Watermelon Museum // China

    About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLonely Planet
    Release dateJun 1, 2016
    ISBN9781760341824
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    • 3/5
      50 Museums To Blow Your Mind Ben Handicott and Kalya Ryan 2016 Lonely Planet3.5 / 5.0I love museums. Not just art/fine art museums, although I love those too.....any museum, anywhere. I just love them. The more bizarre the museum, the better.......This brings together 50 unusual museums from around the world, and there are some great ones featured. Many I never knew of. But there are several missing that I think should be in there....like the Museum of Death in Hollywood and the Bearded Ladys Mystic Museum in Burbank......but there are many here I intend to explore.American Classic Arcade Museum in Laconia, NHBurlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, NVGrammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA (who knew....i lived here and never knew!)Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZInternational Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine Clown Hall of Fame in Baraboo, Wisc.......and a few others. I enjoy books by Lonely PLanet so much, this one as well.
    • 2/5
      Not really funky, some more interesting museum should have been in the book like Gigers Museum in Gruyère Switzerland.