Comments on: Liberoachi, Voodoos, and Condiments: The World’s 10 Wackiest Museums

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:09:35 +0000

in 2007 we went to the “Electric Lady Land Museum of Fluorescent Art” in Amsterdam. totally worth the 5 euros.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:14:53 +0000

How did the Museum of Jurassic Technology not make the list. I spent my first hour in that place utterly confused . . . and then the next two hours vaguely confused.

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By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:50:24 +0000

I’m definitely taking this list on the road with me, Carlo. And hitting the American museums fo’ sho. I love that kind of kitch–glad you made it easy for me!

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By: Carlo Alcos

Carlo Alcos — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:32:49 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I searched their site and found this:

http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/lots-of-fatwas/

I’m very flattered.

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By: danmbob

danmbob — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:20:21 +0000

I was linked to this article via the NY Times

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By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:45:37 +0000

The only thing more strange that the strange museums is… the strange people who pay their money to go there! Each of us is less than perfectly normal, aren’t we?

The first museum mentioned… the Penis Museum, is in Iceland. I know the American guy who has donated his oversized “specimen”, Elmo. Yeah, he’s always been proud of it. And probably should be. Ending up in a penis museum is the perfect place.

There’s a museum for everyone and everything!

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By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:35:36 +0000

These are fantastic! And admittedly frightening.
I think that a Mexican outpost of the ramen museum should be opened– Mexico loves its ramen noodles!
And speaking of Mexico, it has some pretty strange museums of its own. There’s a famous mummy museum in Guanajuato. On the face of things, doesn’t sound as strange as some on this list. But check out the history of this museum and it gets really bizarre: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/mexico/guanajuato-mummy-museum.htm

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By: Hal Amen

Hal Amen — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:07:59 +0000

Traveling with my folks in Germany back in ‘96, we went to a museum of torture instruments in Ruedesheim (http://www.foltermuseum.com/index_us.html). Torture museum in Germany? Bad taste, I know, but it was one of the highlights of the whole trip in my 16-year-old mind.

By the way, that Toilet Seat Art Museum in the honorable mentions is about 5 minutes from where I grew up. In fact, I very well could be in that picture of the schoolkids (can’t tell due to the poor resolution).

Great job, Carlo!

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