TOP 10 weirdest museums: bad art, strange socks, phallology, etc

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

If earlier people preferred to have a cultural rest in museums in order to touch the beauty and plunge into the world of beauty and creativity, today tourists prefer to book excursions in such museums, where one has to be more surprised and horrified than admiring and awe. And the museums that will be discussed today fall into the category of amazing, amazing and even a little shocking temples of art.

Museum of Parasitology

Located in Tokyo. What are the exhibits of this museum, you can guess only from those tiny previews provided by the institution's website. But it should be expected that a live visit will make a lasting impression on the visitor. And the shop at the museum will delight with such souvenirs as flies and midges on key chains, mugs and in the form of jewelry, as well as T-shirts with prints in the form of certain nasty creatures, which the museum suggests not to be afraid of, but to understand and accept.

Phallology Museum

Located in Iceland. It is believed that the Icelandic Museum is almost the only place on earth where the largest number of male genital organs, both human and animal ones, are collected. Of course, during the creation of the collection, not a single living creature was harmed, and the museum exhibits are presented in pictures, photographs, sculptures and other works of art.

Museum of Erotica

Continuing the sex theme, we smoothly move on to eroticism. Oddly enough, this museum is located not in India, in the homeland of the Kamasutra, but in the most puritanical European capital - Paris. Here are all the same paintings and pictures, sculptures and photographs, which, if desired, can be called pornography … If not for the fact that all the exhibits belong to history, and some of them have lived in the world for more than one hundred years.

Banana museum

Once a rare delicacy, today banana is freely sold in markets and shops, and is a favorite delicacy of many people. So why not collect in one place everything that is somehow connected with this delicious and nutritious fruit? The museum is located in the United States.

Carrot museum

So what if it's not an exotic root vegetable? Why are carrots worse than bananas? So the British thought, and created an Internet site filled with a variety of information about carrots, from today's record harvests to deep antiquity.

Toilet Museum

Probably the most famous museum on the list. It exists exclusively in the Internet version, where you can see a lot of "toilet" material, from photographs and creativity to audiovisual information and original genre decorations. Of course, all this is not for everybody.

Sewerage Museum

Also in Paris. Yes, a versatile city - here is your fashion, and here is the sewage museum.

Torture museum

No BDSM! Only torment and death. The most famous museum in Amsterdam is the Museum of Medieval Torture, where you can see all the historical instruments of execution, from the guillotine to the notorious "inquisitorial chair" studded with thorns. A gloomy place … But interesting, yes …

Museum of strange socks

A funny site for stupid knitting. Strange, funny and amusing socks that site visitors themselves upload to the gallery: make people laugh and have fun themselves.

Museum of Bad Art

The name speaks for itself. The institution is located in the USA, in the state of Massachusetts and is a kind of "purgatory", where the most tasteless works of the most mediocre artists are kept. All this is done so that people learn to distinguish between modernity, abstraction and surrealism from the disgusting daub and paperwork.

Some of these strange "temples of art" are real, that is, they have buildings, windows, doors, exhibit stands, a mailing address for letters, and a ticket office. But in general, all museums are open and accessible to Internet users, albeit on a limited basis.