Apparently this week has seen the opening of a Schwarzenegger museum dedicated to Arnie and located in his childhood home.
Schwarzenegger museum
What's the weirdest museum you've been to?
I've been to the Sex Museum in Amsterdam and the Torture Museum in Prague.
Weird Museums
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 01:41 PM
Not been to either, but there's an underpants museum in Belgium and a penis museum in Iceland.
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 03:00 PM
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 03:05 PM
There's a Salt Museum at Northwich
http://directoryofch...hwich-cheshire/
There's also a museum downstairs at the George Hotel Huddersfield - it's run by weird bloke called Stevo - not sure what it features though
http://directoryofch...hwich-cheshire/
There's also a museum downstairs at the George Hotel Huddersfield - it's run by weird bloke called Stevo - not sure what it features though
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 05:40 PM
These are all pretty interesting but for me the weirdest museums in the world are dedicated to Creationism.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 10:24 AM
They have re named the St Albans Organ Museum the St Albans Organ Theatre. Apparently the old name didn't conjure up the joy and happiness you get from looking at and playing with organs of different shapes and sizes. 
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 09:25 AM
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 09:48 AM
These are all pretty interesting but for me the weirdest museums in the world are dedicated to Creationism.
Those aren't museums
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 10:12 AM
Those aren't museums
I'm afraid some of them are. You'll find dinosaur bones and artifacts, with a bunch of lies about what they could represent.
They're museums alright, just immoral ones.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 10:17 AM
I'm afraid some of them are. You'll find dinosaur bones and artifacts, with a bunch of lies about what they could represent.
They're museums alright, just immoral ones.
The ICOM (International Council of Museums) definition of a museum is:
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 11:15 AM
The ICOM (International Council of Museums) definition of a museum is:
Oh well that's that then.
Except it's not is it? Most of those things are subjective, and I don't particularly care what ICOMs definition of a museum is. I know what a museum s, I've been to many, and this strikes me as a particularly pointless argument.
If there is something called a creation museum, you walk in and it's got museum exhibits, dinosaur bones and purports to tell historical truths, it's a museum. It's a dishonest one IMHO, but it's still a museum!
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 11:22 AM
Oh well that's that then.
Except it's not is it? Most of those things are subjective, and I don't particularly care what ICOMs definition of a museum is. I know what a museum s, I've been to many, and this strikes me as a particularly pointless argument.
If there is something called a creation museum, you walk in and it's got museum exhibits, dinosaur bones and purports to tell historical truths, it's a museum. It's a dishonest one IMHO, but it's still a museum!
They are no more a museum than Disney Land.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 12:40 PM
They are no more a museum than Disney Land.
You are purposely impossible.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 12:46 PM
You are purposely impossible.
Not at all. Calling these ridiculous places a museum gives them a status they shouldn't have. They are well funded, profit making, theme parks for the propagation of ignorance.
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Posted 02 August 2011 - 02:26 PM
Not at all. Calling these ridiculous places a museum gives them a status they shouldn't have. They are well funded, profit making, theme parks for the propagation of ignorance.
You are clearly misinformed as to what a museum is.
Good or bad these are still museums,
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