Museum visits are often informative to enrich one’s knowledge. But occasionally, you will have experiences that may leave you questioning whether what you saw was indeed real.
Take these unusual exhibits, for example. We’re talking about displays like jars filled with actual kidney stones, “the world’s roundest object,” and Thomas Edison’s final breath preserved in a test tube (and no, you didn’t misread that).
Like what we did in a previous piece, we’ve collected some of the oddest, most eye-catching museum finds from different corners of the internet. Scroll through and be amazed or weirded out, either of which would be understandable.
#1 This Little Girl’s Rock Displayed In My Local Museum
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#2 Plastic Bag Jellyfish At Vancouver Aquarium
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#3 Thomas Edison’s Last Breath, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Michigan
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Since we’re on the topic, let’s look at a few of the world’s unusual museums, beginning with the Beijing Museum of Tap Water in China. As the name suggests, it’s all about the 90-year-old history of Beijing tap water.
What can you expect inside the museum? One hundred thirty artifacts, 110 photos, 40 models, and sand tables. It also has a miniature tap water filtration system for a better visual presentation.
#4 iPhone And Google G1 Shown In Museum. I Feel Old Now
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#5 I Found The Infamous 3700-Year-Old Copper Sale Complaint In The British Museum
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#6 You Can See Dolly The Cloned Sheep At A Museum In Edinburgh
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The British Lawnmower Museum in the UK is about the history of the grass-cutting device, which dates back to the late 1700s. It displays around 300 restored lawnmowers, including the first patent in 1799.
The museum also features lawnmowers owned by notable figures Princess Diana and Prince Charles, legendary musician Brian May, and television personality Nicholas Parsons.
#7 These Jars In A Surgery Museum Are Full Of Gallstones And Kidney Stones
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#8 The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History Is Now Vaccinated! They Gave It A Bandage When Kids In America Were Approved For Their Shots
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#9 Bra Ball At The American Visionary Art Museum
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In addition to soulful jazz music and delectable Cajun food, New Orleans is also known for the Museum of Death. Stepping into the place, you’ll find antique mortician tools, body bags, coffins, and everything that will remind you of mortality.
The museum also features photos of the infamous Manson family, along with images of crime scenes and car accidents. The website was kind enough to point out that this isn’t for the faint of heart, so proceed with caution.
#10 The Capitoline Museums In Rome Have Artworks Carved Out On Stone For Visually Impaired People To Feel So That They Can Also Enjoy Paintings
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#11 That’s Unreal
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#12 1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
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If you are curious about indoor plumbing and happen to be in India, visit the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets. Sociologist Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak founded the museum in 1992 to highlight the historical development of toilet systems and the evolution of sanitation.
It houses pictures and objects dating back to 2500 BC, as well as bidets and water closets that began to appear in households in 1145 AD. You will also find poems that appreciate the use of toilets.
#13 The Roman Wine Of Speyer Is The Oldest Wine Of The World That Is Still Liquid. The Bottle Has Been Dated Between 325 And 350 AD. It Was Found In 1867 In A Grave And Is Today In A Museum
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#14 The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years Almost Completely Intact
Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship.
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#15 The Original Gay Pride Flag, And The Sewing Machine It Was Made With
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We’d also like to hear from you, readers. Have you encountered odd museum finds? If not, which ones among this list stood out to you? Comment below!
#16 In Japan, There Is A Museum For Rocks That Look Like Faces
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#17 19th Century Skull From A Hydrocephalic Fetus, Royal College Of Surgeons’ Museum, Edinburgh
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#18 This Wax Museum Has A Wax Figure In The Restroom
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#19 These Dinosaurs Wearing Masks At The Indianapolis Children’s Museum
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#20 This Moon Exhibition In My Local Town
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#21 This Museum Has Taxidermized Animals Randomly Hidden In Odd Places – Behind Other Exhibits And So On
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#22 A Full Human Nervous System In The Anatomy Museum In Baylor College Of Medicine
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#23 Skeleton Of Siamese Twins In The Mütter Museum
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#24 Cardiff Museum’s Marble Exhibit
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#25 A Museum Display Showing The Clothing Worn By Intimate Assault Survivors During The Time Of Their Attacks
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#26 The Titanic Museum In Orlando Is Selling A Huge Piece Of Coal From The Titanic For 500,000 Dollars
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#27 Cup Noodle Museum. Ikeda, Osaka
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#28 My Local Museum Got A Life-Size Replica Of A Quetzalcoatlus. It Looks Too Real
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#29 Merman Exhibit At My Local Museum
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#30 Check Out This Cube Of One Million Dollars In One Dollar Bills, Displayed At The Federal Reserve Bank Museum In Chicago
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#31 This Art Museum In Denmark Lets You Scratch A Lamborghini
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#32 My Brother Went On A Trip To Egypt And Saw Mummified Crocodiles Exhibited In A Museum
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#33 Out Of Over 40,000 Windows In The World Trade Center Building Only One Survived Intact And It Was Marked To Have Come From The 82nd Floor
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#34 The World’s Roundest Object, At The Deutsche Museum In Munich, Germany
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#35 I Took This At The Van Gogh Exhibit In NYC. One Of The Best Experiences Of My Life
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#36 Van Gogh Exhibit’s Entrance
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#37 This Minecraft Diorama Thingy At The Indianapolis Children’s Museum
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#38 There Is A Free Public Cycle Path Through The National Dutch World War II Museum
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#39 Giant Isopod In A Museum
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#40 Froggyland, Museum Of The Best Taxidermy In The World In Split, Croatia
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#41 This Art Exhibit At Renwick Gallery
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#42 I Went To A Guitar Exhibition That Featured A Space For Air Guitar
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#43 Half Of Charles Babbage’s Brain Is Displayed At The Science Museum, London (The Other Half Is At The Hunterian Museum, Also London)
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#44 The Best Preserved “Lorica Segmentata” Roman Plate Armor In The World To Date, Corbridge Roman Site Museum, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, UK
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#45 Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum. Each Suitcase Is A Family, A Life
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#46 Body Part-Shaped Hot Water/Oil Bottles Found At The Asklepieion Of Nea Paphos, Cyprus. Dated In The Roman Era, Exhibited At The Archaeological Museum Of Paphos
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#47 World’s First Meme Museum In Hong Kong
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#48 The Ficus Retusa Linn, The World’s Oldest Bonsai Tree, Is Over 1000 Years Old. Crespi Bonsai Museum, Italy
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#49 “Puppy” – A Dog Statue Made Entirely Of Flowers By Jeff Koons In 1992, Is Located In The Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain
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#50 Museum Glass vs. Regular Glass
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#51 From The Hakone Open-Air Museum
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#52 LEGO Dinosaur, Australian Museum
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#53 Torture Masks, St. Augustine Torture Museum
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#54 The Way This Museum Arranged Snail Shells To Demonstrate Color Variation
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#55 Found In The LEGO Exhibit At The Museum Of Science And Industry
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#56 The Fire Exit Sign In This Egyptian Museum Is A Pharaoh Running
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#57 This Hyper-Realistic Ocean Wave In A Museum Exhibit
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#58 Data’s Costume On Display At The Goonies Museum In Astoria, Oregon
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#59 The Very First Exhibit You See When You Begin Your Tour At The Army Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
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#60 The Actual Bus Rosa Parks Refused To Change Seats On. National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, TN
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#61 Inflatable Tank Decoy Used In WWII To Fool The Germans Into Thinking The Allies Were Going To Invade Hundreds Of Miles From The Actual D-Day Landing Sites
International Spy Museum, Washington DC.
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#62 The Digital Art Museum In Tokyo Is A Must-See For Japan
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#63 Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India. He Turned 40 Acres Into A Museum Of Art Using Scrap Trash Found Around India. Such An Inspiration. There Is No Such Thing As Waste
This is one part of it made of broken bangles and fragmented tiles.
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#64 I Found The Holy Grail Today In A Museum In France
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#65 These Models Of Hippies, Skaters, And Punks Are In A History Museum In Ecuador
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#66 Life-Size Model Of A Megalodon Hanging At The Smithsonian Natural History Museum
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#67 Xenomorph By H. R. Giger. Exhibition In Berlin
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#68 The Museum In My City Dressed Up The Dinosaurs For Christmas. Taichung, Taiwan
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#69 The Biggest Coin I’ve Seen. 100 Kg Pure Gold. Berlin, Germany
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#70 My Small Town Has One Of The Original Copies Of The Declaration Of Independence
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#71 Massive Swords Of Hungarian Origin Dating Back To The 14th Century, Now On Display At The Topkapi Palace Museum In Istanbul
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#72 WW2 Tank Displayed At A Museum In Holland
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#73 A Museum Of Hammers Located In Lithuania. The Owner Said, That There Were Around 1200 Hammers, Which Were Collected By Him Only. And It’s Not Only The Hammers That You Hammer Nails With
There are cheese tester hammers, glass-maker hammers, railroad worker hammers, pneumatic hammers, and multi-use hammers.
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#74 An Item At The Field Museum Was Removed Because It Was Inappropriate To Display It
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#75 This Real Triceratops Skull In Mid-Processing. Denver Science Museum
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#76 The Last Column At The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum
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#77 This Star Wars Scene In A Spanish Wax Museum
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#78 Personal Bomb Shelter. Imperial War Museum
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#79 Dice For An Ancient Korean Drinking Game, Inscribed With Commands Like “Chug It All And Dance” Or “Sing A Song”. Around 750 AD, Gyeongju National Museum
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#80 One Of The 4000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wagons Unearthed In The Lchashen Village In The Vicinity Of Lake Sevan. Made Of Oak, They Are The Oldest Known Wagons In The World
Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia.
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#81 An Ancient Clay Tablet Found In Uruk (Warka), Southern Iraq, Inscribed With Cuneiform Script And 3 Geometric Circles Containing Astronomical Calculations
Dated to the ancient Babylonian period (2004-1595 BC), the Iraqi Museum, Babylonian Gallery.
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#82 Charming Anglerfish Sculpture At The Ripley’s Museum In Wisconsin Dells, Made From Scrap Metal
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#83 An Exhibit At The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts
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#84 From My Trip Through The Holocaust Museum, This Little Boy Took His Boot Off To Shower And Never Put It Back On
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#85 Shoe Car That I Found In Some Museum
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#86 These Flowers Are Made From Crystals. Natural History Museum, Vienna
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#87 These Mugs Are 3,700 Years Old. From The Minoan Civilization And Now On Display At The Heraklion Museum, Greece
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#88 “All The Flowers Are For Me” Exhibit By Anila Quayyum Agha (Cincinnati Art Museum)
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#89 D-Day Model At The WWII Museum In New Orleans
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#90 Here’s The Other Authentic Pirate Flag. It Resides In The Mexican History Museum In Monterrey, Mexico
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#91 All Separate Blown Glass Pieces. Chihuly Glass Museum, Seattle
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#92 Today I Visited The National Arboretum’s Bonsai And Penjing Museum, And It Was Beautiful
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#93 The Audio Guide At The Louvre Is A Nintendo 3DS XL
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#94 Visited The Flower Exhibit At The Museum Today
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#95 Dom Pedro Aquamarine. The World’s Largest Cut Aquamarine Gem. At The Smithsonian National Museum
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#96 Check Out This Glass Sculpture By Dale Chihuly At The Milwaukee Art Museum
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#97 An F-117 Stealth Bomber Delivered To A Museum But Stripped Of All Its Stealth Coatings And Instruments
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#98 A Gun Axe That I Found In A Museum
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#99 Art Museum Uses Glazed Ceramic Bits As Groundcover
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#100 This Blown-Glass Statue Is In The Boston Art Museum
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#101 Rage Against The Machine’s Tour Van Is Featured In The Human Rights’ Museum
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#102 Saw This Today At The National Museum Of Native American History
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#103 WW2 Museum In France. Couldn’t Get Away With This Title Today
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#104 The Chair Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated In, Henry Ford Museum
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