1Disgusting Food Museum
There is a Disgusting Food Museum in Berlin which displays disgusting dishes from all around the world. They even have a tasting bar for visitors to try some of them.
2. The motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated is now the National Civil Rights Museum.
3. To prevent a rodent infestation, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia owns around 70 cats. The cats spend their days mostly in the basement and are taken care of by the museum staff. The museum has a small kitchen and a pet clinic dedicated to the well-being of the cats.
4. The Imperial War Museum has an exhibit that lets you listen to the moment guns fell silent after the World War 1 armistice went into effect. They used seismic data to recreate the effect.
5. Chicago’s Field Museum has 10 colonies of flesh-eating beetles, who live and work at the museum cleaning animal bones for display.
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6Reading Museum
In 2016, a 155-year-old mousetrap kept on display in the Reading Museum in Berkshire caught a mouse.
7. The Grand Canyon Museum had three buckets of radioactive uranium ore on display for 18 years and only found out when a kid was goofing around with a Geiger counter.
8. National Museum of American History considers “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “The X-Files” and “Star Trek” important parts of American culture, and has related props in the collection.
9. After a fire destroyed Brazil's National Museum in 2018, university museum studies students began collecting visitors’ photos of the irreplaceable artifacts that were lost so that they could recreate the museum's collection virtually.
10. James Smithson sent $500,000 (1.5% of the federal budget) to the USA in the 19th Century to fund an institution “for the creation and diffusion of knowledge.” Though James Smithson never visited the USA, the Smithsonian today is the world’s largest museum complex; all of which is free of charge and open to the public.
11Pirate and Treasure Museum
There’s a Pirate and Treasure Museum in St. Augustine, Florida that displays not only one of two authentic Jolly Roger flags known to exist but also the only known treasure chest that actually belonged to a pirate.
12. The Moon Museum is a less than 0.5 square inch tile that is left on the Moon and contains drawings by six prominent artists, including a penis drawn by Andy Warhol.
13. There is a museum in Austin, Minnesota dedicated to Spam, and it tells the history of Hormel company, the origins of the canned product, and its place in world culture. The Spam Museum is free of charge, and the volunteer guides, known as Spambassadors offer visitors tours and free samples to savor.
14. The Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska is the first museum in the world dedicated to hammers, and it boasts 1400 hammers and related tools ranging from ancient times to the industrial era. Its mission is to educate the general public about the history and use of hammers.
15. The Creation Evidence Museum is a museum in Texas dedicated to the display of evidence related to creationism. One of their main exhibits is found on the second-floor balcony of the museum and features prominently a 12 feet high statue of Dallas Cowboys football coach Tom Landry.
16Museum of Broken Relationships
There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia. You can go and leave personal objects left by former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.
17. The Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan offers a driver’s training class to teach people of any age to learn how to drive a Ford Model T built between 1908 and 1927.
18. There is an Atomic Bomb Museum in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was detonated. The museum is only open 12 hours each year.
19. Necropants are a pair of pants (trousers) made from the skin of a dead person. They were believed in Icelandic witchcraft to grant unlimited wealth. The only known pair of necropants is on display in the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in Hólmavík, Iceland.
20. There is a Museum of Failed Products in Ann Arbor, containing thousands of consumer products that never took off, including gems like Clairol’s A Touch of Yoghurt shampoo and Pepsi's AM Breakfast Cola.
21Negro Baseball League Museum
In 2008, the lead singer and bassist of Rush, Geddy Lee, had one of the largest collections of Negro Baseball League memorabilia and formally donated it all to the Negro Baseball League Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
22. In 1964, 3 amateur jewel thieves stole $400,000 worth of jewels from the American Museum of Natural History. Using a glass cutter, duct tape, and a squeegee, they were able to take the world's largest sapphire, the world's most perfect ruby, and the largest black sapphire.
23. Older U.S.A. presidential limousines are at the Henry Ford Museum. After Sept. 11, 2001, though the Secret Service adopted a policy to destroy the limos after they are taken out of service in order to protect their security secrets.
24. Galileo’s Middle finger is on display in the Galileo Museum, in Florence, Italy. The finger is to be interpreted by the viewer as sitting eternally defiant to the church that condemned him or pointing upwards to the sky, where Galileo glimpsed the glory of the universe.
25. An almost perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil was found in a Canadian oil sand mine in 2011. The 2500-pound fossil was unveiled to the public in 2017 and is currently on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.
