Situated in the picturesque fishing port of Boscastle, Cornwall, for the last 50 years this wonderfully dark cottage claims to house the world's largest collection of witchcraft related artefacts... »

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As the criminologist Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of the autopsied the body of Giuseppe Villela, the notorious Italian criminal he had just dissected, he discovered a cranial anomaly known... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by Dylan

The thing about natural history museums is that they are usually concerned about remaining 'up-to-date' both scientifically and curatorially. This can make finding science museums that have the... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by Annetta

Located at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac, and open to the public for only two days a year, the Zymoglyphic Museum houses the cabinet of curiosities created by artist Jim Stewart. Early modern... »

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The dime or dime store museum is by all accounts an endangered species. The first dime museum, "The American Museum," was opened in 1841 by none other than P. T. Barnum himself. It represented a... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and wythe

Steve Erenberg, aka Radio Guy, has what could only be described as a one-of-a-kind collection. The collection includes anatomical models, armor, scientific instruments, and objects that are... »

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In a cobblestone alley near the Piazza del Popolo, a weather-striped window showcases the porcelain heads, limbs, and bodies of dolls long lost and in complete disrepair. Above the ghastly... »

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Monkeys with bared teeth and wild eyes, lumpy looking cheetahs, and a toothy looking polar bear are all residents of the delightfully unkempt Bologna Zoological Museum. Ferrets lay in taxonomic... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by Dylan

Today, arguments are often framed as science vs. religion, empiricism vs. spirituality, but not so long ago it was quite normal for science and religion to live side by side, in both buildings and... »

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The Dom Museum’s Kunst und Wunderkammer is the lovingly recreated and restored collection once belonging to the Archbishop Wolf Dietrich. Wolf Dietrich was an extremely rich and powerful man... »

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