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July 20, 2014 at 9:18 AM #21191July 20, 2014 at 9:29 AM #776912
spdrun
ParticipantIf you’re into that kind of thing, the Mutter Museum in Filthydelphia would be right up your alley and a 2-hr drive or train ride away.
July 20, 2014 at 2:04 PM #776921Hatfield
ParticipantI’m a huge fan of the MJT, it’s pure genius. I try choose my guests wisely because not everyone will “get” it, and I try to tell them as little as possible before visiting.
Not really a “bizarre” museum, but if you’re at all into technology, the Deutsches Museum in Munich is not to be missed. It’s sort of a cross between the Exploratorium and the Smithsonian. They have an amazing musical instrument collection as well as a great collection of cars, bikes, and motorcycles, plus some life-size tunnel-making exhibits and a big faraday cage you can climb into and get zapped with 100,000 volts while dangling 30 feet above ground. What’s not to love?
In Florence there’s a great museum of beautifully crafted Renaissance-era scientific apparatus. As a bonus, they also have on display Galileo’s middle finger.
The Musee Mechanique in San Francisco has a great collection of old arcade games, pinball machines, carny games, and mechanical dioramas. Admission is free and most of the games and devices cost a quarter.
I’ve been trying to get up to the Steam Engine Museum in Vista – in fact we almost went today but the day got away from us.
July 20, 2014 at 3:00 PM #776922scaredyclassic
ParticipantI really liked the cable car museum in sf. Even though I thought I wouldnt. Wish I’d see the arcade museum.
I wonder if Temecula needs a weird museum?
July 20, 2014 at 3:29 PM #776924Anonymous
GuestIt’s days as a museum have passed but, as a Temecula resident, you should appreciate this place:
https://www.facebook.com/BergmansMuseumAguangaCa
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/108227116/Bergmans-Museum-of-Natural-History
Pigg relevant: It’s listed for sale!
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Aguanga/48140-Cahuilla-Rd-92536/home/5789389
There’s probably more to discover.
July 20, 2014 at 8:32 PM #776933UCGal
Participant[quote=spdrun]If you’re into that kind of thing, the Mutter Museum in Filthydelphia would be right up your alley and a 2-hr drive or train ride away.[/quote]
+1medical oddities – some from former presidents… really a bizarre, but interesting museum on the UPenn campus.
July 20, 2014 at 8:44 PM #776934ParticipantAFAIK, it’s not on the Penn campus but about 15 blocks away. I think 22nd and Chestnut.
July 20, 2014 at 8:46 PM #776935NotCranky
ParticipantInquisition exhibit at the wax museum in Madrid is the strangest I have seen. Didn’t expect that. Pretty graphic.
My favorites are natural history museums, nothing too weird there.
July 21, 2014 at 12:34 AM #776945FlyerInHi
GuestI guess the morbid anatomy museum just opened. I’ll have to check it out… but a little creepy.
I guess back in the early 20th century and before, there was a lot more weird stuff. Now we have medical intervention.
I know a guy with 6 fingers on one hand. The extra one grew out of the thumb. Kinda weird. His parents never wanted to get it cut off because it was the will of God.
I used to be grossed out, but now I guess it’s cool. He married a beautiful wife who doesn’t mind at all. Their son just has 10 fingers.
July 21, 2014 at 6:58 AM #776946Participant[quote=spdrun]AFAIK, it’s not on the Penn campus but about 15 blocks away. I think 22nd and Chestnut.[/quote]
You’re right. But I think it’s affilliated with UPenn medical school.July 21, 2014 at 9:01 AM #776947ParticipantI can fold my tongue in 3 and make a freakishly loud clucking sound with my tongue that can echo through canyons but not sure that’s museum worthy
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