Archive for Collection & Museum
September 11, 2007 at 9:00 am · Filed under Travel & Places, Pictures, Collection & Museum, Neatorama Only, Great American Roadtrip
World’s Only Thermometer Museum. Image: eurovancation [Flickr]
There are over 5,000 thermometers in the museum! Image: eurovancation [Flickr]
Image: eurovancation [Flickr]
More from Neatorama reader Rich B’s Great American Roadtrip [Flickr photoset]: here’s the world’s only Thermometer Museum in Onset, Massachusetts.
Here’s a description of Richard (the "Thermometer Man") and Barbara Porter’s Thermometer Museum from Cape Cod Travel:
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Original post by Alex
September 8, 2007 at 9:20 pm · Filed under Archaeology, Collection & Museum
A well-preserved Incan mummy named "la Doncella" or "the Maiden" is on display for the first time in a museum. The serene look of the mummy belies the gruesome condition of her death: stranded on top of a mountain and frozen to death as a sacrifice.
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Original post by Alex
September 5, 2007 at 7:47 am · Filed under Medicine, Collection & Museum
Jennifer Sutton developed a life-threatening heart condition in her teens and had a heart transplant earlier this year. She decided to lend her old heart to to be put on display:
She said: "Seeing my heart for the first time is an emotional and surreal experience.
"It caused me so much pain and turmoil when it was inside me. Seeing it sitting here is extremely bizarre and very strange.
"Finally I can see this odd looking lump of muscle that has given me so much upset."
Link
Original post by Alex
August 20, 2007 at 12:08 am · Filed under Religion, Pictures, Collection & Museum
Inspired by the Creation Museum, the Brotherhood of Fantasy Creatures decided to make their very own Unicorn Museum as a web parody.
Based on the idea of ‘if it’s in the Bible, it must be true’, The Unicorn Museum promotes belief in the Biblical Truth of unicorns, a creature mentioned nine times in the KJV Bible.
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Original post by Alex
August 17, 2007 at 10:08 am · Filed under Video Clips, Collection & Museum
Strong content, but they’re not real (all are wax sculptures):
The video depicts the Specola Museum [wikipedia] in Bologna University where sculptors made lifelike models of human anatomy.
Link - via Morbid Anatomy
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Original post by yayo
August 13, 2007 at 9:07 am · Filed under Blog & Internet, Cartoon & Comic, Collection & Museum
Cover Browser has a huge (80,000+) collection of comic book covers, including some obscure ones that are no longer in print. Whether you love comic books or just like to browse, it’s a virtual candy store of awesome illustrations.
Link (Don’t miss their Top 10 Comic Covers) - Thanks Phillipp Lenssen!
Original post by Alex
August 9, 2007 at 4:42 am · Filed under Collection & Museum
The Corning Museum of Glass is having a show called Curiosities of Glassmaking, where more than a hundred of "wonderfully odd and mysterious objects fashioned of glass, dating from antiquity to the present day" are exhibited.
This one to the left is an antique optical model of the eye, probably from 19th century France. (And below: method of preserving the dead by entombing the corpse in glass!)
Link - via Morbid Anatomy, Thanks Joanna Ebenstein!
(BTW, Joana is working on a travelling exhibition called Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World)
Original post by Alex
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