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mylanta
05-02-2002, 11:11 AM
The Mustard Museum (http://www.mustardweb.com/) in Mount Horeb, WI
The Toilet Seat Art Museum (http://www.unusualmuseums.org/toilet//) in Alamo Heights, TX
The Fastener Museum (http://www.mellsfastenermuseum.org/) in Julian, California
The Museum of Bad Art (http://www.glyphs.com/moba/) in Dedham Mass
Liberace Museum (http://www.liberace.org/museum.html) in Las Vegas, Nevada
The Mutter Museum (http://www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml) in Philadelphia, Penn. (includes "900 fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological specimens")
The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (http://www.mtn.org/quack/) in Minneapolis, Minn.
The Museum of Funeral History (http://www.nmfh.org/) in Houston, Texas
The Lawrence Welk Museum in Escondido, CA [I included this for our Canadien friends]
The Toaster Museum (http://www.toaster.org/) in Charlottesville VA
The Burlingame Museum of Pez (http://www.burlingamepezmuseum.com/) in San Francisco CA
The Squished Penny Museum (http://www.squished.com/) in Washington Dc
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health (http://www.mum.org/) in Washington DC

Though I didn't get my sites from the following web site RoadSideAmerica.com (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map.html), you still ought to click on it, and select your state to see all the weird stuff that your state has to offer. Like Wisconsin has the World's Largest Replica Cheese and the World's Largest Talking cow. And New Jersey has the Death Rock of Alexander Hamilton. Waycross Georgia has the Petrified Dog in a Tree.

This next site is only a virtual museum, but I thought you all would like it anyway: The Furnace Sticker Museum (http://www.nwlink.com/~pkrogh/museum.html)

Guy
05-02-2002, 11:29 AM
I've seen other references to unusual museums on the net too, like the Coca-Cola museum (and obviously the Pepsi museum). Police museums, like the one in New Jersey featuring the actual electric chair in which the murderer of Lindburgh's baby got fried, and other ones like that. In Montreal, we have the "Just for Laughs" museum dedicated to humor (Just for laughs is first and foremost one of Montreal's many summer festivals, but a museum got created along the way) More on this at:

http://www.hahaha.com

mylanta
05-02-2002, 04:05 PM
The Prince Edward Island Potato Museum (http://www.peipotatomuseum.com/) in Prince Edward Island
The Canadian Canoe Museum (http://www.canoemuseum.net/) in Peterborough, Ontario
The Bata Shoe Museum (http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/non.html) in Toronto
The Museum of Contraception in Toronto
The Canadian Clock Museum (http://www.canclockmuseum.ca/) in Deep River Ontario
The Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin (http://www.cowboy-museum.com/) in Lake Williams
The Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum (http://www.hhof.com/index.htm) in Toronto
The Canadian Military Heritage Museum (http://www.bfree.on.ca/comdir/musgal/cmhm/) in Brantford Ontario [I'm not mentioning oxymoron]
The Honey Economuseum (http://www.bfree.on.ca/comdir/musgal/cmhm/) in Quebec
The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame (http://www.mts.net/~agrifame/) in Brandon Manitoba