A Mustard Museum and other Weird Museums
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
United States
February 18, 2017 10:30am CST
I have visited a LOT of museums in my lifetime and perhaps you have also. So, during my daily morning reading today, I decided to see what types of museums there might be that are, what I would definitely consider UNUSUAL.
Well, the list is LONG. Here are just a few that I found:
The Cockroach Hall of Fame museum in Plano, Texas which is attached to the Pest Shop, a store that has cockroaches dressed up as celebrities and historical persons.
Missouri’s Glore Psychiatric Museum: Contains many examples of artwork by patients at St. Joseph State Hospital, including a mosaic using 1,446 objects removed from the stomach of a patient with a compulsive swallowing disorder. Say what?????
And then there’s the Mustard Museum in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Here you can see over 5,000 jars of mustard from all over the world and samples of mustard from all fifty states.
Now this is morbid. The Museum of Death in San Diego, has the largest collection of artwork from serial killers. This museum also features photos from famous murder scenes, body bags, execution devices and coffins. Weird!
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@marguicha (223785)
• Chile
18 Feb 17
The jars in that museum were filled with mustard. They sold mustard but it was quite expensive. In my country I can buy Dijon mustard at an affordable price.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
Wow! Those mustard jars could be very valuable to a museum. You should check it out.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
18 Feb 17
@IreneVincent In France you can find them in antique shops, and they are not very expensive, circa $10. The one on my desk says "Moutarde du Vert Pré". The shop was founded in Paris in 1669, but this one is from the second half of the 19th.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
18 Feb 17
Wow those are some weird places to attend. I must look and see what kind of museums we have here.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
@Happy2BeMe OK!!! Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Museums are everywhere We have quite a few here in the Richmond, VA area, especially about the Civil War..
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
You never know what you might see in a museum.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
18 Feb 17
I found a shoe museum, a potato museum, a sardine museum just to name a fuel. The Gopher Hole Museum is a bit strange.
by CARISSA BLUESTONE Canada's Most Unusual Museums: the world-famous Gopher Hole Museum (Photo: Colin Smith) Did you know that Vancouver has an entire museum devoted to corkscrews, that diehard Anne Murray fans can devour every detail of her life and recor
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
There was a long list of weird museums. You can find a museum for almost anything, it seems.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
@MGjhaud Really, I will have to do that. Thanks for the information.
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@marguicha (223785)
• Chile
18 Feb 17
I went to the mustard museum in Wisconsin and found it very interesting. But I would not care for the others. I would find them as morbid as those collections some people have from the terible doings of the nazis during the WWII.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
Oh, so you have been there. I would imagine that it was very interesting. We have a tractor museum here, featuring many old tractors from days gone by. It's quite interesting too. Just depends on what you might be interested in.
Recently, while visiting my oldest son in North Carolina, we went to a museum in Greensboro that was all about the city of Greensboro and it was very informative, going way back to the Civil War days and slavery.
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@marguicha (223785)
• Chile
18 Feb 17
@IreneVincent We also went to a n old railroad engines museum when we visited the US many years ago. It was awesome.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
19 Feb 17
@marguicha My father worked for the B&O Railroad for many years and I know a lot about old railroad engines, believe me. But, I have not been to a railroad museum. I think I would enjoy it though.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
20 Feb 17
@JudyEv Yes, that's very true. Some people just LIKE weird things.
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@JudyEv (342112)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Feb 17
@IreneVincent There is no accounting for people's tastes! 
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Feb 17
I actually plan to visit the psychiatric museum later this year.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
19 Feb 17
You'll have to tell us about it if you do go.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
18 Feb 17
Museums are worth the time and effort. You can learn a lot by visiting museums.
@librarygeek1980 (3137)
• United States
18 Feb 17
Weird, but thanks, now I get to add to my bucket list!
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@kingwriter007 (497)
• Delhi, India
18 Feb 17
Nice information. It is a hard work.
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