Wonder Cabinets

Image of Trundle Manor: House of Oddities located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US | One of Trundle Manor's owners.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Trundle Manor: House of Oddities

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures tucked into a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood

Trundle Manor looks, from the outside, like any other house in the neighborhood of Swissvale near Pittsburgh - except for the coffin on the porch. But the inside is filled with a wide assortment... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Outsider Art, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Miniatures, Memento Mori, Purveyors of Curiosities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by VonMinx and Nicholas Jackson

Image of Chamsori Gramophone and Edison Science Museum located in Kangnung, South Korea | A glimpse of the collection housed by the Chamsori Museum.
Kangnung, South Korea

Chamsori Gramophone and Edison Science Museum

Explore the history of recorded sound at the world's third largest collection of Edison memorabilia

An oddity of geography, the Chamsori Gramophone and Edison Science Museum is situated fifteen minutes from downtown Gangneung, South Korea. While neither Thomas Edison nor the Gramophone have any... »

Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections, Musical Wonders, Electrical Oddities | Edited by timothylegion, Annetta and others

Image of Vancouver Police Centennial Museum located in Vancouver, Canada | Painted Skull Sent Into Vancouver's Police Department
Vancouver, Canada

Vancouver Police Centennial Museum

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada

When you think about Canada, mayhem and murder are not the first things that come to mind. Like any country, however, Canada has its seamy underbelly, and the Vancouver Police Museum (formerly the... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by jiblite, Annetta and others

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Iowa, US

Battle Hill Museum of Natural History

Ones man's collection of the natural world's strange and unusual

The Battle Hill Museum in Battle Creek features the collection of one man, Dennis Laughlin. The windowless building packs in more than 4,000 natural history specimens and wildlife mounts. Other... »

Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by Sam E, michelle and 2 others

Image of Charles Willson Peale's Museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | Charles Wilson Peale, "Self Portrait of the Artist in His Museum," 1822
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Charles Willson Peale's Museum

The first natural history museum in the United States

Charles Willson Peale, an American portraitist, has largely been forgotten by the annals of museum history, but his studio-cum-gallery-cum-natural history museum was one of the first museums in... »

Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Annetta and others

Image of Jadis located in Santa Monica, California, US | Photo by Anhie Nguyen
Santa Monica, California, US

Jadis

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities

Filled to the brim with antique scientific instruments and sci-fi movie paraphernalia, Jadis is part prop rental store and part science history museum. Above all things, it's an extensive... »

Wonder Cabinets, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by anhie

Image of The Morbid Anatomy Library located in Brooklyn, New York, US | Morbid Anatomy LIbrary
Brooklyn, New York, US

The Morbid Anatomy Library

A macabre oasis in the sprawl of New York City: The Morbid Anatomy private collection and research library, open to the public by appointment

The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and private collection available to the interested public. The library makes available a collection of books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Morbid Anatomy, Dylan and 2 others

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London, United Kingdom

Wellcome Collection & Library

Curios of Pharmacist and Collector Henry Wellcome

Born in Wisconsin in 1853 (five years after the state had been incorporated in the Union), Henry Wellcome studied medicine first hand at a young age, helping his uncle. At 17, he apprenticed... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Annetta and others

Image of The South Australian Museum located in Adelaide, Australia | Pickled baby Echidna
Adelaide, Australia

The South Australian Museum

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits

In 2003 the Smithsonian quietly renovated their animal dioramas. They removed the taxidermied gazelles, elephants, giraffes, and put in a series of interactive exhibits aimed at 10 year olds with... »

Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by meanie and Dylan

Image of Agricultural Museum of Cairo located in Cairo, Egypt | A taxidermied lion lies on its side, broken.
Cairo, Egypt

Agricultural Museum of Cairo

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace

Once the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, Egypt has a long agricultural history, so it's no surprise to find a museum in Cairo dedicated to Egypt's farming past. The surprise lies in what this... »

Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, Josh and 3 others

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