Weird Museums From Around the World

Weird Museums From Around the World

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Some museums feature things that would never normally become an exhibition item, yet people enjoy visiting them. There’s a museum of funeral culture in Russia, a museum of women’s hair in Turkey, and a museum of love in South Korea. When traveling abroad, we all want to have unforgettable experiences, so visiting one of the museums below may be a good idea.
We  decided to show you 15 weird museums around the world that are worth putting on a bucket list.

photofun4ucom Pada February 08, 2018 Komentar

The Museum of Failure

The Museum of Failure

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Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pretend they never happened. A new museum is set to open in Sweden that hopes to make this right.
The “Museum of Failures” is the brainchild of Dr. Samuel West, an organizational psychologist, who has spent the last seven years studying failure and success and what people say about both.

Dr. Samuel West holding the Nokia N-Gage.
"I got tired of all of this glorifying of success, especially within the domain of innovation where 80 to 90 percent of all projects fail," Dr. West said.
Then, he stumbled into the Museum of Broken Relationships—which collects mementos from failed romances and displays them under glass—while he was on a family trip to Zagreb, Croatia, and he had a light bulb moment.
“I rushed out, and I had this sort of eureka moment that I'm going to start the Museum of Failures. Like, there's no going back,” Dr. West told NPR.
The purpose of the museum, Dr.West says, is to show that innovation requires failure. “If you are afraid of failure, then we can't innovate,” he said.
Scheduled to open in June this year, the museum will showcase over sixty failed products and services from around the world. “Every item provides unique insight into the risky business of innovation,” the museum's website says.
Some of the products that will be on display includes —Harley-Davidson perfume; Bic pens made especially for women; Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink; Nokia N-Gage that was a mobile phone and a gaming console in one; Apple Newton, a personal digital assistant; beef lasagna from Colgate; and more recent products such as Amazon Fire Phone and Google Glass.

The Twitter Peek, a device for tweeting, launched in 2008.

Frozen beef lasagna from a toothpaste company.

The Harley-Davidson's fragrance, according to Dr. Samuel West, was a "total flop.

Apple Newton, an early PDA.

Trump: The Game was released in 1989, based on buying and selling properties.

The Sony Betamax video cassette player, which lost the format war to its rival, VHS.

Coca-Cola BlaK was a coffee-flavored version of the soft drink, launched in 2006.

Bic for Her pen, which was discontinued at the end of 2016.

Google Glass.

Kodak pioneered the digital camera in the 1990s but failed to market it.
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photofun4ucom Pada April 29, 2017 Komentar

The Museum of Broken Relationships

The Museum of Broken Relationships

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The Museum of Broken Relationships 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 magazines. These are some of the artifacts displayed at the Museum of Broken Relationships, a project that collects and displays the wreckage of failed romantic exploits. The museum has two locations—the original at Zagreb, Croatia, and a second establishment opened in Los Angeles, the US, about a year ago. The Museum was the brainchild of Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic, two Croatian artists who fell out of love and couldn’t decide what they should do with the leftover items they had acquired during their four year relationship. They joked about starting a museum but didn’t thought about it seriously, until three years later, when Grubisic contacted Vistica with the idea in earnest. They asked their friends to donate items left behind from their break-ups and a collection was born.
 
 Photo credit: Connie Ma/Flickr The collection was displayed in public for the first time in 2006. In the years that followed, the collection went on a world tour across more than twenty countries from Argentina to the Philippines, from South Africa to the United Kingdom. Along the way it gathered new items donated by members of the public, and the collection grew. The museum found a permanent home in 2010 in a small apartment in Zagreb, Croatia. Six years later, they found a second home in Los Angeles. Some of the most bizarre items in their collection includes:

• an axe that a woman used to chop up her former lover's furniture, before neatly arranging the fragments into small heaps.
• a pair of pink fake breasts, donated by a woman whose husband made her wear them during sex
• a Brazilian Playboy collection a boyfriend stored at his ex’s place and failed to pick up
• a pair of silicone implants that a demanding partner forced a woman to have, which she removed after breaking up

Even more interesting than the items are the accompanying text with each display that gives visitors a voyeuristic glimpse into the private lives of these anonymous people. The “toaster of vindication” is explained by its former owner, in the gleeful words: “When I moved out, and across the country, I took the toaster. That'll show you. How are you going to toast anything now?” The text next to a piece of belly button fluff reads: “D’s stomach had a particular arrangement of body hair that made his belly button prone to collecting lint. Occasionally, he’d extract a piece and stick it to my body, sweaty after sex. One day … I met his oddity with my own; I put the lint in a small bag and concealed it away in the drawer of my bedside table.” Another label reads: “We ran hot for two years, laying naked in bed for twelve hours a day, doting and dwelling on each other’s perfection. It was pure bliss for a 20-year-old.” "The Museum of Broken Relationships is an invitation to an empathetic journey to the depths of the human heart," Vištica said to LA Times. "It is a testimony to our ultimate need for love and connection despite the difficulties that go with it. It is a desire to connect visitors in meaningful ways across growing divides of class, community and culture that seem to define our world." Photo credit: Connie Ma/Flickr Photo credit: Connie Ma/Flickr Photo credit: Connie Ma/Flickr Photo credit: brokenships.com Photo credit: brokenships.com Sources: The Guardian / LA Times / Wikipedia Subscribe to our Newsletter and get articles like this delieverd straight to your inbox

photofun4ucom Pada March 23, 2017 Komentar

The Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk

The Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk

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AK-47, the notorious assault rifle, has a museum in its honor - the Kalashnikov Museum also called the AK-47 museum. The museum was opened on November 4, 2004, in Izhevsk, a city in the Ural Mountains of Russia. The museum chronicles the biography of General Kalashnikov – the creator of the rifle - as well as documents the invention of the AK-47. The museum attracts some 10,000 visitors each month.



The Kalashnikov Museum museum serves as Russia's monument to this world-renowned infantry weapon. It presents the guns and their history with civic pride and a revived sense of national confidence. The exhibitions, ranging from static displays of weapons to plasma-screen video presentations showing the guns' use in recent decades, reflect a laborer's affection for what has long flowed from nearby foundries and assembly lines. Much of the material is also viewed through the life of Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the man credited with designing the weapon in secret trials in 1947, and who still lives a few blocks away.

Nadezhda Vechtomova, the museum director stated in an interview that the purpose of the museum is to honor the ingenuity of the inventor and the hard work of the employees and to "separate the weapon as a weapon of murder from the people who are producing it and to tell its history in our country."













Sub-machine guns Bizon-2 (with a screw shop for 66 rounds 9-mm PM) and "Knight CH" (under the NATO caliber - 9 mm Parabellum)



Aircraft gun GSH-6-23 weighs only 76 kg and produces lead at a rate of 12,000 rounds per minute.



Self-loading sniper rifle Dragunov with a folding butt SIDS











Top - AK -108 and Automatic Nikonov AN-94. On the bottom shelf - new sniper rifle SV-98





[via Wikipedia, Livejournal]

photofun4ucom Pada July 22, 2016 Komentar

30 Museum Snapchats That’ll Make Art History Fun Again

30 Museum Snapchats That’ll Make Art History Fun Again

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Museums can be awesome. But let's face it, some of them can also be pretty dull. Which is why it's not surprising that some people get a little bored of them. After all, how many busts do you need to see (no jokes) before they all start to look the same? And frescoes are all well and good, but you can only see so many of them before neck cramp starts to set in.

But museums don't have to be boring. Especially if you have Snapchat. Just take a look at these hilarious pictures compiled by us to see what we mean. Don't forget to vote for the funniest!

When You Realize It's Only Tuesday

photofun4ucom Pada July 07, 2016 Komentar

Charlie Chapin’s Museum in Switzerland

Charlie Chapin’s Museum in Switzerland

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Famous Grévin Museum in Paris, in behind an uncommon museum in Switzerland. A path to the effigy of the legend Charlie Chaplin, located in the last house where he lived, called Chaplin’s World, that extends on 3000m2 on the edges of Lake Geneva. During 16 years, architect Philippe Meylan and museographer Yves Durand got the idea of a museum paying tribute to the man. The visitor is immersed in his leaving room, his studios, on film sets. Photographer Marc Ducrest immortalized this out-of-time place.

photofun4ucom Pada July 06, 2016 Komentar