Museum visits are often informative to enrich one’s knowledge. But occasionally, you will have experiences that may leave you questioning whether what you saw was indeed real.
Take these unusual exhibits, for example. We’re talking about displays like jars filled with actual kidney stones, “the world’s roundest object,” and Thomas Edison’s final breath preserved in a test tube (and no, you didn’t misread that).
Like what we did in a previous piece, we’ve collected some of the oddest, most eye-catching museum finds from different corners of the internet. Scroll through and be amazed or weirded out, either of which would be understandable.
#1 That’s Unreal
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#2 This Little Girl’s Rock Displayed In My Local Museum
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#3 The Capitoline Museums In Rome Have Artworks Carved Out On Stone For Visually Impaired People To Feel So That They Can Also Enjoy Paintings
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#4 The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years Almost Completely Intact
Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship.
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#5 Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum. Each Suitcase Is A Family, A Life
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#6 Museum Glass vs. Regular Glass
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#7 The Actual Bus Rosa Parks Refused To Change Seats On. National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, TN
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#8 The Ficus Retusa Linn, The World’s Oldest Bonsai Tree, Is Over 1000 Years Old. Crespi Bonsai Museum, Italy
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#9 From My Trip Through The Holocaust Museum, This Little Boy Took His Boot Off To Shower And Never Put It Back On
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#10 In Japan, There Is A Museum For Rocks That Look Like Faces
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#11 These Mugs Are 3,700 Years Old. From The Minoan Civilization And Now On Display At The Heraklion Museum, Greece
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#12 The Original Gay Pride Flag, And The Sewing Machine It Was Made With
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#13 The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History Is Now Vaccinated! They Gave It A Bandage When Kids In America Were Approved For Their Shots
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#14 I Went To A Guitar Exhibition That Featured A Space For Air Guitar
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#15 This Moon Exhibition In My Local Town
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#16 The Fire Exit Sign In This Egyptian Museum Is A Pharaoh Running
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#17 These Flowers Are Made From Crystals. Natural History Museum, Vienna
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#18 These Dinosaurs Wearing Masks At The Indianapolis Children’s Museum
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#19 My Local Museum Got A Life-Size Replica Of A Quetzalcoatlus. It Looks Too Real
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#20 The Way This Museum Arranged Snail Shells To Demonstrate Color Variation
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#21 One Of The 4000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wagons Unearthed In The Lchashen Village In The Vicinity Of Lake Sevan. Made Of Oak, They Are The Oldest Known Wagons In The World
Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia.
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#22 LEGO Dinosaur, Australian Museum
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#23 This Museum Has Taxidermized Animals Randomly Hidden In Odd Places – Behind Other Exhibits And So On
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#24 1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
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#25 I Found The Infamous 3700-Year-Old Copper Sale Complaint In The British Museum
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#26 There Is A Free Public Cycle Path Through The National Dutch World War II Museum
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#27 From The Hakone Open-Air Museum
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#28 A Museum Display Showing The Clothing Worn By Intimate Assault Survivors During The Time Of Their Attacks
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#29 My Brother Went On A Trip To Egypt And Saw Mummified Crocodiles Exhibited In A Museum
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#30 Xenomorph By H. R. Giger. Exhibition In Berlin
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#31 A Full Human Nervous System In The Anatomy Museum In Baylor College Of Medicine
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#32 Dice For An Ancient Korean Drinking Game, Inscribed With Commands Like “Chug It All And Dance” Or “Sing A Song”. Around 750 AD, Gyeongju National Museum
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#33 “Puppy” – A Dog Statue Made Entirely Of Flowers By Jeff Koons In 1992, Is Located In The Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain
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#34 I Took This At The Van Gogh Exhibit In NYC. One Of The Best Experiences Of My Life
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#35 Skeleton Of Siamese Twins In The Mütter Museum
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#36 The Best Preserved “Lorica Segmentata” Roman Plate Armor In The World To Date, Corbridge Roman Site Museum, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, UK
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#37 The Museum In My City Dressed Up The Dinosaurs For Christmas. Taichung, Taiwan
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#38 I Found The Holy Grail Today In A Museum In France
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#39 This Art Exhibit At Renwick Gallery
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#40 This Real Triceratops Skull In Mid-Processing. Denver Science Museum
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#41 Inflatable Tank Decoy Used In WWII To Fool The Germans Into Thinking The Allies Were Going To Invade Hundreds Of Miles From The Actual D-Day Landing Sites
International Spy Museum, Washington DC.
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#42 This Hyper-Realistic Ocean Wave In A Museum Exhibit
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#43 The World’s Roundest Object, At The Deutsche Museum In Munich, Germany
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#44 The Roman Wine Of Speyer Is The Oldest Wine Of The World That Is Still Liquid. The Bottle Has Been Dated Between 325 And 350 AD. It Was Found In 1867 In A Grave And Is Today In A Museum
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#45 Data’s Costume On Display At The Goonies Museum In Astoria, Oregon
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#46 This Art Museum In Denmark Lets You Scratch A Lamborghini
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#47 These Jars In A Surgery Museum Are Full Of Gallstones And Kidney Stones
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#48 Charming Anglerfish Sculpture At The Ripley’s Museum In Wisconsin Dells, Made From Scrap Metal
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#49 These Models Of Hippies, Skaters, And Punks Are In A History Museum In Ecuador
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#50 Plastic Bag Jellyfish At Vancouver Aquarium
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#51 This Statue At The National Museum Of Stockholm Perfectly Blocking Sunlight With His Hand
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