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    Unusual
    Museums

    A L I N A YA RY N A

    FTM 2-4
    Cancún
    Underwater Museum

    Cancún, Mexico

    A stunning series of galleries containing


    500 submerged sculptures in the shallow
    waters of the Cancún National Marine
    Park. Not only are they eerily beautiful,
    they also serve as material for coral to
    collect and grow upon. Essentially it’s art
    as conservation, captured superbly in their
    online gallery.
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    An informative medical museum


    packed full of anatomical oddities, eye-
    watering equipment and bizarre
    specimens. Most notably from Europe,
    Joseph Hyrtl’s 139 Caucasian skulls of
    varying shape, which he gathered to
    disprove a racial belief that cranial
    features were evidence of intelligence.
    You read that correctly! For over a
    decade locals and visitors to Yokohama
    have enjoyed their favorite staple in a
    recreation of 1958 Tokyo, the year
    instant noodles were invented. The
    amusement park also houses branches
    of famous ramen restaurants with
    expert recipes available online.
    A hotchpotch of artwork spawned by
    the “deranged and deluded” (as one
    critic put it). MOBA has spent 20
    years celebrating bad art in all its
    forms, qualifying them as more of a
    museum than a gallery. Their online
    collection is neatly categorised for
    ease of repulsion.
    A central museum with five branches
    across north-east Italy comprises
    Reinhold Messner’s homage to the
    mountains, from the science of
    glaciers to rock climbing and local
    mythology. Not only are the
    locations breath-taking, but the
    website is also well worth a visit.
    Leave your crampons behind.
    Russia’s oldest museum houses
    artifacts of people and cultures that
    range from the bizarre to the morbid.
    If you enjoy pickled heads or
    deformities in large jars, get yourself
    over there. Although the website isn’t
    very graceful, it’s chock-full of
    interesting collections, saving you
    the cost of flights.
    All that glitters in this case is, in fact,
    gold. A collection of over 55,000
    pieces fill the Banco de la
    Republica’s building, many of which
    are fashioned from the precious
    metal, sacred to Colombia’s
    indigenous cultures. The website also
    provides a thorough insight into gold
    across pre-Hispanic societies.
    Time magazine considers Wayne
    Porter’s sheep-farm-turned-recycled-
    metal-structure park worthy of their
    “Things you don’t see every day”
    list. Whether they’re stretching their
    legs after a long drive on Route 90 or
    taking it all in online, the visitors are
    apparently kookier than the
    collection itself!
    Thank you

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