Tuesday, September 20, 2011

10 Oddest Museums In the U.S

     When someone says "museum", what's the first thing you think of? A place where beautiful and perfect artwork hundreds of years old, created by the most famous artists in the world are located? Well.. you might want to see for yourself!
                             The Top 10 Oddest Museums in the World:

10. The Circus World: Located in Barboo, Wisconsin that had more than 100 traveling museums meet there. Today, it holds circus displays such as costumes, photos, films, props and more than 200 wagens!
9. Mavin's Mavelous Mechanical Museum: Do you like things like video games and pinball mechines? This is the place for you! This museum has anything and everything to do with amusement world!
8. International UFO Museum & Research Center: Created in 1991, The UFO musuem in Roswell, New Mexico holds trade shows, alien costume contests, parades and even some special Hollywood guests!
7. Toilet Seat Art Museum: In San Antonio, Texas, a retired plumber had an idea. He created masterpieces with toilet seats! At his museum, he has over 600 decorated toilet seats!
6. Aurora Ice Museum: This museum keeps at 20 degrees fahrenheit all year! World champion ice carvers used over 1,000 tons of ice to make circular staircases, jousters on horseback, a bar for tourists and many more sculptures!
5. Devil's Rope Museum: They will take you back to the old wild west! In McLean, Texas, they want to show you the importance of barbed wire. Over 40 sculptures were made out of barbed wire! There, they demonstrate how barbed wire is made.
4. The National Museum of Health and Medicine: This is one of the oldest museums. Founded by the U.S amy, it holds over 24 million items like organs, bone fragments and skeletons. Here, you will find parts of Abraham Lincoln's scull, the bullet that killed him and a hair ball the shape of a stomach from a girl that ate hair!
3. The Spam Museum: A museum of canned meat! This museum was opened in 2001 to be dedicated to  remind everyone of the pleasures of canned pork, with the "Wall of Spam".
2. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices: Coming in at the 2nd oddest museum in the U.S, this museum is located at the Science Museum of Minnesota. This museum includes a machine that determine your personality by the bumps on your head. Most of the devices still work today!
1. Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia: Since there was so many heads on the pez dispensers, they decided to make a museum Burlingame, California! The most popular are Mickey Mouse (possibly the first ever), Mary Poppins and a counterfeit Hitler pez dispenser!

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