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Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Housed in a remaining Victorian villa in Bournemouth is a fascinating museum of local artifacts including fossils, stuffed animals and preserved in formaldehyde. Many of these objects are unique.... »
Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections | Edited by ropami50 and Dylan
150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs
The Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland is a collection of 150-year-old satirical tableaus of domestic life in the 19th century — all involving stuffed frogs.
The museum began in the... »
Unique Collections | Edited by Josh and Dylan
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English general, but, more importantly, he was a founder of modern anthropology. Though he designed firearms for the military, Pitt Rivers unexpectedly... »
Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999
The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan
A museum where you can see debris caught out of the water
On the area of Finsing Hydroelectric Plant, there is an exhibition of debris, which were caught by the maintenance staff of the hydroelectricpower plants in Munich area out of the water. The... »
Unique Collections | Edited by Alpha
One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician of unusual talent. Born in 1887 and raised in the modest town of Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was largely self-taught. Working alone, the Indian... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Trevor and Dylan
World's largest bunny collection makes this museum the "hoppiest" place on Earth
For Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski, their love for bunnies is a constant reminder of their love for one another. So what innocently began as an occasional bunny-related gift exchange between... »
Unique Collections | Edited by anhie, Dylan and others
