Museums Of The Absurd

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/R4TRQjC.jpg

Aktung just sent me a picture of a museum of SPAM. I told him I've already seen both a museum of CANDLES and a museum of PENCILS, by all that's holy.

Have you ever emerged from such a place wondering "WHY?" and, if so, what was it a museum of and where can we go see it?

[Platapus]

I love those types of museums. I wish there where more of them where I live.

[Eichhörnchen]

Why not start one yourself then? I'm sure we could think of something. How about a museum of jam jars, or maybe famous peoples' nose-hairs? Probably already been done...

[Tango589]

Me and the wife went here:



Sexmuseum Amsterdam Venustempel




This was good for a laugh, cheap to enter, and even more fun after a visit to a good coffee shop!:|\\

[Eichhörnchen]

You'd have a job keeping out of trouble in Holland. Why do so many of their words look like naughty words in English? You go out looking for a newsagents and the sign over the shop door says something like "Gobbler-Shoop". Do you go in or not?

[Tango589]

It depends on who's behind the counter.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm260/tango589/attractive-woman.jpg

Oh hell yes!:yeah:


http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm260/tango589/ugly%20man.jpg

Oh hell no!:nope:

[Wolferz]

Museum of squirrels and moose...

It might have a rocky start but you'll soon be flying high with a Bullwinkle in your eye

[STEED]

I think we in the UK have a museum of lawn mowers the old ones you had to push to cut the grass...Oh some people here are scratching their heads.

This..

http://www.tractorshed.com/photoads/upload/38610.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3361/4640074262_189e9c4399_z.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Me and the wife went here:



Sexmuseum Amsterdam Venustempel




This was good for a laugh, cheap to enter, and even more fun after a visit to a good coffee shop!:|\\

Snap :know:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Hey! :huh:

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick, it was a wet Wednesday afternoon and it passed the time. How many others here can claim to have seen the world's largest pencil (I suspect Jim has seen it)?

(Although Cars of the Stars and the James Bond museum were better, but they disbanded a few years ago.)

[Dowly]

Well.. there's that museum in Italy that I hear is full of crap...
http://magazine.good.is/articles/museo-della-merda-sht-museum

:doh:

[Jimbuna]

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick, it was a wet Wednesday afternoon and it passed the time. How many others here can claim to have seen the world's largest pencil (I suspect Jim has seen it)?


Rgr that :yep:

How about the mustard museum in Wisconsin?

http://mustardmuseum.com/

[Eichhörnchen]

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick

Did you get in for nothing when you told them your name is HB?:D

[Catfish]

:D

The button museum:
http://www.knopfundknopf.com/museum/index1.html



Seems they want to found it:
http://museumoftheabsurd.blogspot.de/

[Aktungbby]

Museum of squirrels and moose...

It might have a rocky start but you'll soon be flying high with a Bullwinkle in your eye

CLOSE! There was Dudley Do-Rights Emporium in Hollywood http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/slides/DudleyDoRights%28small%29.JPG alas no longer open; but the statue has been restored and has been on display on the Sunset Strip and the Jay Ward Legacy Exhibit...about as good as it's gonna get...:up: http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/paley-center-hosts-jay-ward-legacy-exhibit-restored-rock-bullwinkle-statue-unveiled-20141007 (http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/paley-center-hosts-jay-ward-legacy-exhibit-restored-rock-bullwinkle-statue-unveiled-20141007) http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/slides/Bullwinkle%28small%29.JPG

[vienna]

CLOSE! There was Dudley Do-Rights Emporium in Hollywood http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/slides/DudleyDoRights%28small%29.JPG alas no longer open; but the statue has been restored and has been on display on the Sunset Strip and the Jay Ward Legacy Exhibit...about as good as it's gonna get...:up: http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/paley-center-hosts-jay-ward-legacy-exhibit-restored-rock-bullwinkle-statue-unveiled-20141007 (http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/paley-center-hosts-jay-ward-legacy-exhibit-restored-rock-bullwinkle-statue-unveiled-20141007) http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/slides/Bullwinkle%28small%29.JPG

I used to go into the Jay Ward/Dudley DoRight Emporium all the time, starting from the mid-60s on until it closed some years ago. In fact, I made a purchase there about a week before it was shuttered. Something a lot of people didn't know was that many of the buildings behind the Emporium were the production offices for Jay Ward. Also, the building which the Bullwinkle statue stood in front of has a small courtyard; in the courtyard are a series of concrete disks inlaid into the courtyard, in a manner similar to the courtyard at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd.. The writers, animators, voice artists, and Jay Ward himself, wrote their names and placed their elbow prints (yes, elbow; it was Jay Ward's group, after all) in the concrete. In addition, a few other notables in animation added their names and prints, including Walt Disney. The building is now a dog daycare center and, since the statue was removed, I fear the historic signatures may not be around much longer...

The statue will not be returned to the original site, but last time I heard, back in March 2015, the City of West Hollywood, where the statue originally was placed, was to vote on placing the statue of donated space at another location on the Sunset Strip near the original location...

Here's an article about the restoration and the restorer:

http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/update-mystery-sunset-strips-rocky-bullwinkle-statue-disappeared-solved-last/


On the subject of strange museums, in nearby Culver City, close to the old MGM Studios (now Sony Studios), is a rather unique museum straight out of Victorian curiosity, THE MUSEUM of JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY:

http://www.mjt.org/

This place is a combination of surprising and creepy...


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[Eichhörnchen]

That museum sure is interesting...

[vienna]

That museum sure is interesting...

Check out the link on the site to "Sympathetic Institutions":

http://www.mjt.org/Links.html

There are a few more interesting museums listed...


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[Eichhörnchen]

Aktung tells me there was a Museum of Menstruation in Maryland. Honestly, I think maybe some of these places should just have a big sign over the door saying "WTF?"