Musée des Plans-Reliefs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2024
In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...
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Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2023
In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...
Micrarium: The Museum of Microscopic Animals
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2021
It is said that more than 95 percent of animal species are smaller than your thumb, yet the vast majority of the creatures that are displaye...
The Space Museum Inside a Church
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2020
About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...
The Ruins of Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2019
The tasteful ruins on the banks of the Mississippi River from which rises the Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum serves as a reminder to the site...
The French Chateau With The World’s Largest Private Collection of Warplanes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2019
Among the rolling hills of Burgundy's wine country, surrounded by vineyards and forested land, stands a 14th-century castle belonging to...
The Museum That Collects Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2019
The Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, West Sussex. Photo credit: Anguskirk/Flickr In the village of Singleton, in West Suss...
The Disgusting Food Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2018
A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...
Morwellham Quay: A Historic Copper Port
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2018
Just four miles to the southwest of Tavistock, in Devon, England, “bordering the beautiful River Tamar, amidst towering cliffs and gently ro...
The Japanese Museum With The Most Flexible Opening Times
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2018
Ichimura Mamoru stands in front of his museum in Kyoto. Photo credit: thornet_/Flickr In a quiet residential street in Kyoto, Japan, just ...
Stuckie The Mummified Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
Fifty years ago a dog went up a tree chasing a racoon or something. He never came down. Fast forward twenty years. A group of loggers cut d...
The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
How Clowns Trademark Their Face By Painting On Eggs
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2017
Every clown’s face makeup is unique, or at least, they should be, for there is an unwritten rule within the clowning community that no clown...
World’s First Nuclear Power Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2017
Spread over nearly 900 square miles in the high desert of eastern Idaho, lies the vast campus of the Idaho National Laboratory. Much of the ...
The Birmingham Back to Backs
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2017
In the late Georgian era, Britain’s urban population began to grow rapidly as the country’s economy shifted from agricultural to industrial....
The Museum of Failure
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pr...
The Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mining Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2017
The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey, United States, is known for its variety of immersive and educational exhibits, but is best kn...
Galileo’s Missing Fingers
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2017
Everybody in Florence knows where Galileo Galilei lies buried. His mortal remains are in a crypt inside the famous Basilica di Santa Croce, ...
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2017
An empty bottle of whiskey, a pair of fake breasts, a pair of tattered blue jeans, a toaster, an axe, and a stack of Brazilian Playboy magaz...
The Fortress of Mimoyecques
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2017
About twenty kilometers from the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques, in northern France, lies a once-secret undergroun...
