1. Museum of Untalented Art in Massachusetts, USA
This collection houses a collection of six hundred paintings and sculptures that, according to museum officials, are “so tasteless that they cannot be ignored.” The collection is constantly being replenished; the museum curators carefully select the most mediocre of the thousands of paintings sent from all over the country.
Works: Mana Lisa and “Mother and Child”
“Lucy in heaven with flowers”
2. Zoological Museum La Specola in Florence, Italy
The La Specola Museum is located in the very center of Florence, next to Palazzo Pitti. He is known for his collection of wax models of organs and bodies with dissected bellies, as well as still lifes of organs. This collection, consisting of one and a half thousand exhibits, is unique in that it was opened to the public already in 1755 and became the first anatomical museum in Europe.
3. Hair Museum in Avanos, Turkey
The Turkish city of Avanos has long been famous for its ceramics, and now it has become famous thanks to the hair museum, which one of the potters organized in the basement of his workshop. The history of the museum is vague: the potter’s beloved woman either left him or died, leaving only a strand of hair as a farewell. hair. The potter told this plaintive story to his customers, and many of them agreed to leave a lock of hair to Galip. Over thirty years, 16,000 strands of hair have accumulated in the basement, hanging from the walls and ceiling. Each strand has a tag with the name of the donor attached. This collection looks creepy, which is what attracts tourists.
4. Phallus Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland
The staff of this museum call themselves “phallologists” and are engaged in collecting preserved penises of all mammals living in Iceland into the museum’s collection: from the hamster to the blue whale. Now the museum has collected more than 200 exhibits, and in 2011 the collection was joined for the first time by a human penis.
5. Paris Sewerage Museum, France
Paris is proud of its sewer system, which was built in the 1950s and was considered an engineering marvel. Over a century and a half of good service, the sewerage system has acquired a unique smell, because of which pregnant women and children are not allowed on excursions, and others are advised not to eat before visiting the museum. In the souvenir shop you can buy a stuffed rat to remember your visit.
6. Parasite Museum in Tokyo, Japan
The museum contains thousands of parasites preserved in alcohol that live in the bodies of people and animals. The pride of the museum is the longest tapeworm (8.8 meters),
living in man. Most of the 4,500 exhibits are accompanied by diagrams, diagrams and photographs of the damage they cause to the body, and some even have multimedia stands dedicated to them.
Parasites in the human brain
7. Museum of Lies in Küritz, Germany
Ordinary museums are proud that all their exhibits are original, but in the museum of lies all exhibits are fakes, its motto is: “don’t believe your eyes.” The museum is located in an old mansion, which is actually 20 years old. In the museum’s buffet, guests are offered to taste a plastic cake; in the halls are exhibited pieces of the Argonauts’ ship, a witch’s broom, Hitler’s false mustache, a radio from the Titanic and Van Gogh’s severed earlobe. Most of the exhibits were created by the founder and permanent director of the museum, the famous German artist Reinhard Zabka.
