Here is a list of the seven most strange and unusual museums in the world.
1. The medieval torture instruments, Prague, Czech Republic – Visitors are offered a 45-minute tour around the museum which consists of sixty torture instruments. Information on the usage of each mechanism is supplied.
2. The Museum of Bad Art, Boston, USA – with over 400 so-called masterpieces in its collection,only forty of them are can be exposed simultaneously due to a lack of space. Entry is free of charge. The items in the collection are gathered and moderated by its curator –
Scott Wilson.
3. Three museums of Sex: in Amsterdam, Paris and Husavik (Iceland) – In the “Musee de l’Erotisme” in Paris amongst its items of modern erotic art is the history of Parisian prostitution. In the Netherlands, the museum has paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and contraceptives. In Iceland, the Phallus Museum has a 195-strong collection, including salted penises of horses, mice, hamsters, rats, guinea-pigs, seals, whales and polar bears.
4. The mysterious Winchester house in San-Hose, California – the house of 160 rooms and 40 bedrooms was constructed over 38 years till the death of Sarah Winchester. All the construction was in aide of the souls of the people killed from the rifles of her father.
5. The Mutter medicine history museum, Philadelphia, USA – it is famous for its huge collection of skulls and unique items such as the corpse of a woman that turned into soap in the soil she was buried in.
6. The Glora Psychiatric museum, Saint-Josef, Missouri – retelling the 400 year history of the treatment of psychic diseases, the museum has on exhibition 1446 items taken out of the stomachs of the patients.
7. The International Toilet Museum, New-Delhi, India – it tracks the history of toilets since 3000 B.C. until the present.