Have you ever been to a Natural History Museum?
If you have then you know what kinds of wonders and oddities are behind it's doors. If you haven't ... why not?
There's something creepily fascinating about natural history museums. All the little nooks and crannies filled with all kinds of strange and morbid things. Like the case upon case of bird specimens in an off the beaten track hallway in the basement of the Smithsonian Natural History. Or the flying ape skeletons in London's Natural History Museum. Or the floating heads at Glasgow, Scotland's Kelvingrove. Here are some of my favorite creepy, kooky, altogether ooky findings from some of the museums that I have been to. Hope you enjoy!
entomology...gorgeous butterflies and creepy crawlies...I can't help but feel sorry that they ended up stuck on a pin for eternity but they are fascinating to behold
New York
Paris
Paris
Paris
ornithology... lots of feathers and wings and flying things...I'm obsessed with birds!
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DC
Paris
London
London
London
London
London
New York
marine biology and such...preserved in little jars to ooh and aah and feel slightly queasy over
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
a parade of animals...a little depressing to see them all in their dead glory but I can't help but be impressed
Paris
Glasgow
DC
Paris
London
the odd, the surreal, the just plain strange...
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DC
New York
Richmond
Glasgow
Richmond
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow
London
London
London
Magnificent architecture...a bonus of any museum worth it's salt
London
London
Paris
Places to visit if you so desire...or if you dare.
Most of these are Natural History Museums but even those that aren't have their fair share of creepy kookiness. And ookiness.
- Smithsonian Natural History Museum Washington DC - these first four are classics
- American Museum of Natural History New York City
- Natural History Museum London
- Museum National d'Historie Naturelle Paris
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow - not a Natural History Museum per se but a mix of museums
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC - another mix up museum with all kinds of cool stuff
- Museum of Childhood Edinburgh - full of scary dolls, shivers down the spine
- Poe Museum Richmond - no photos allowed but what the heck, its POE!
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond - mostly fine art but the occasional off the wall exhibit
- Metropolitan Museum of Art New York - ditto to the VMFA
- Mutter Museum Philadelphia - another no pictures allowed but good golly, this is the grandaddy of creepy, yucky, oh so morbidly fascinating STUFF, full of medical oddities galore
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