Weirdest museums: Growing up, people don’t particularly like being dragged to the museum. As part of a class field trip or even a family outing, the thought of walking around for hours simply doesn’t excite anyone. There are some positives, however: visiting museums fights stress, is good for the brain and can even make one smarter. Whether it’s slowing down to study the well-organized colonies of insects or staring at Dali’s surrealism, you can lose yourself for a few hours.
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That has to be good for something, right?
But that was studying art and insects; how is staring at food supposed to calm someone down? We’re not talking about #foodporn on Instagram. There are entire museums dedicated to specific foods. From the Idaho Potato Museum to the New England Maple Museum in Vermont or the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, they’re all over the globe.
Food aside, how does one “become calmer” while strolling through a catacomb? At the Catacombe dei Cappuccini in Palermo, Sicily, the exhibits are mummified corpses. The crypt below the Capuchin monastery is home to almost 10,000 embalmed friars, nobles and famous people.
While the condition of the bodies is a testament to the skill of the embalmers, it’s not on anyone’s list of fun stuff to do in Italy.
It seems like, regardless of what floats your boat, someone, somewhere has amassed a collection of it. From the mundane to the scary, there’s a collection out there. Don’t believe us?
Here are 15 of the most unusual museums around the world. Many of them just make you ask “WHY?”
15. Museum of Bad Art, Boston
Why bother with walking for miles staring at old bones and paintings by artists whose names you can’t pronounce? Try something new and view art by totally incompetent artists! Opened in 1994, the Museum of Bad Art’s dedicated to bad art and bringing the worst of art to the widest of audiences.
MoBA “…proudly showcases terrible works of ‘art’ created by the talentless, the colorblind, and those suffering from hand tremors..” With a collection standing at about 600 pieces, you’re sure to find something to ‘take your breath away’.
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