museum
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I love museums about really specific subjects. I love that a potato museum exists in Idaho. I love the idea that someone, all year round, runs a toilet museum in Kiev – not only that, but it’s still open despite the ongoing conflict. Some museums are truly one of a kind, and I’ll prioritise them…
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I wrote most of this back in October, after coming back from my trip to London, but then forgot all about it – until today, when I found the draft I’d done that was 90% finished! Please enjoy sorry it’s a bit late 🙏 Context! Back in 2014 I flew to the US, and for…
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Context! I read a book earlier this year – The Museum of Whales you Will Never See, by A. Kendra Greene – about unusual museums in Iceland. The first chapter is dedicated entirely to the Iceland Phallological Museum, which as you may have guessed is dedicated entirely to the penis. At first glance, you’d naturally…
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Context! The Natural History Museum in London has its own page on Atlas Obscura and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There’s some odd stuff there – as I mentioned on one of the very posts I did on this here blog – but it’s one of the biggest museums of…
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I took as many photos as I was able during the tour, but the lighting for this experience is intentionally very dark – I’ve tried to salvage them as best I could but sorry for the poor quality! Context! My main reason for visiting Dublin in the first place was discovering the National Leprechaun Museum…
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Context! Dinosaurs are the single best thing ever to exist and anyone who claims otherwise is lying to themselves. Wollaton Hall, despite being a major natural history museum, sadly doesn’t have any on permanent display. However they’ve been rectifying this with temporary exhibits showing dinosaur skeletons from other museums. Back in 2018, the museum held…
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This was originally going to be a small part of my Bulgaria roundup post, but the story got long enough that I’ve turned it into a separate blog entry. I hope you enjoy! Context! Unless you’re a complete sociopath you probably like dinosaurs – there’s something about skeletons of massive, long extinct animals that brings…
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Context! Apologies for not posting in the last few days! I’ve been gathering my thoughts on what I’ve seen and my overall thoughts on Bulgaria but I’m excited to do some more writing. I’ve still got 2-3 more posts planned, don’t worry! It was the 1990s, Communism had just fallen, and Bulgaria had a problem.…
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Context! Okay, first a confession – I am definitely not a military enthusiast. I’ve never read a Tom Clancy novel. I can’t identify a Panzer tank based on one blurry photograph. I’ve certainly never leaked classified data because a game got minor details about an army tank wrong (this actually happened). However, I do have…
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Context! Bulgaria has a… complicated relationship with the Communist era. Of course it was an era of great hardship, repression and surveillance, but the Communist government also (broadly) brought security, stable jobs and improvements to public infrastructure. After Bulgaria moved to democracy, the country’s economy collapsed for several years – it’s still one of the…
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