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Modern Museum To Have Pizza Box As An Artifact Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
In an attempt to collect artifacts that represent life from modern times, the Finnish National Museum and the Helsinki City Museum are keeping a box for a frozen pizza as one of their several new collectibles.
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Museum Security Guard Fired For Changing Yoko Ono Artwork Posted: 6 months ago by jasontho
An off duty security at the Seattle Art Museum named Amanda Mae was fired when she removed papers museum visitors had put on a work by Yoko Ono. It is a public participation piece entitled, "Painting to Hammer a Nail." After working for about a half hour, the museum's curator came into the gallery and told her to stop. She was fired the following day when she came in to work. The museum's spokeswoman, said, "The intent of the piece does not include taking things away, only adding things."
Amanda called her intervention, "Yoko Ono Excavation Survey" (Y.E.S.}.
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Museum of Aviation Posted: 2 years ago by Turtle
Visitors to Warner Robins will discover the "Crown Jewel" of Middle Georgia -- the Museum of Aviation, now the second largest museum in the United States Air Force. Displaying 93 aircraft and hundreds of exhibits on a beautiful 51 acre site, the museum has grown into a significant exhibit, education and cultural center drawing more than 500,000 visitors a year. Great intro.
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Amsterdam's hash museum Posted: 3 years ago by kissmenow
Amsterdam's Hash museum - or Museum of Hash, Marijuana and Hemp, to give it its full title, is to be found on one of the canals running through the city's red light district. Tourists of all ages and nationalities are drawn to the area by its reputation as a haven of easily accessible sex and drugs.
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The Icelandic Phallological Museum Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. *NSFW*
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Sora made director of memorial museum for cat-loving haiku poet Posted: 11 months ago by kakana
A cat that has become a regular visitor to a museum for famous haiku poet Issa Kobayashi (1763-1827) here has been made a special director of the museum.
The cat, Sora, makes daily visits from his owner's house nearby to the town-run Issa Memorial Museum in Shinano.
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Woodstock Museum Becomes A Campaign Issue Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
"This is the farthest thing from a hippie museum that anything could be," declared Harold Russell, a dairy farmer who is the town supervisor -- and a reelection-seeking Republican -- in Bethel. "I personally take a little offense to that."
Follow up to DEP's post here.
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Candy giant Pez takes aim at Peninsula museum Posted: 8 months ago by kakana
It took more than 30 years for the creators of Pez candy dispensers to give the little plastic figurines feet, and they never did get hands. But now the long arm of the Pez Candy Co. has reached all the way from Linz, Austria, into U.S. District Court, where it has slapped the tiny faces that fill Burlingame's Museum of Pez Memorabilia with a lawsuit.
*link fixed
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Toilet Seat Museum Named Top Odd Attraction Posted: 5 months ago by Bornbad
The Alamo may attract millions of Arizona visitors each year, but a little museum in Alamo Heights ranks higher than both of them when it comes to off-the-wall attractions.
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Define Irony: Neighbors intolerant of Museum of.. Tolerance. Posted: 2 years ago by tragluk
In the 14 years since it opened, the Museum of Tolerance has become an international sensation, attracting millions of visitors with its message of compassion and mutual respect. But to Sharron Lerman, who lives two blocks away, the landmark has become something more: a bad neighbor.
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Picasso Painting Stolen in Brazil Museum Heist Posted: 2 years ago by KateHadson
Paintings by Paolo Picasso and Candido Portinari, the most valuable pieces in the Sao Paolo Museum of Art collection, were thieved. These paintings had not gone to auction therefore it was difficult to estimate their value.
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Nude statues at the museum are OK - live nudes, not so much Posted: 7 months ago by tigertony
New York photographer Zach Hyman, who been making news by shooting nude models in public places, could only watch as his shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art turned into a worst-case scenario.
Follow up to this story.
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The Sex Machines Museum Posted: 2 years ago by kamaloo
Some images from The Sex Machines Museum in Prague. Lots of kinky stuff that only show how sick and perverted the human mind has always been. NSFW Warning
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Cracking Museum Exhibition, Gromit Posted: 12 months ago by pocksucket
In conjunction with The Intellectual Property Office, Wallace & Gromit will be taking over the London Science Museum from 28th March with an exhibition of inventions and other Cracking Ideas
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Russian museum selling Cold War fears Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new museum in Moscow is attempting to draw in tourists by offering them a taste of the Cold War fears that once gripped most of the world.
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Children's museum executive arrested in child porn case Posted: 2 years ago by wags273
The chief operating officer of the National Children's Museum in Washington was arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges, accused of using his work computer to send explicit images to others — including an undercover New York City detective.
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Salem Witch Museum Posted: 9 months ago by bingo
An abridged story of what happens when a bunch of little girls have too much time on their hands. The Salem Witch Museum covers the events of 300 years ago when people might have been just a little too superstitious.
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Deutsches Museum in Munich - Science and Technology Posted: 2 years ago by xarj
Photo Gallery and information about the Grand Deutsches Museum in Munich. The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology.
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Las Vegas museum embracing secretions Posted: 9 months ago by bornbad
A new series of exhibits at the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas is focused on the subject of bodily excretions.
*I hope they don't forget "spurt".*
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Belgian museum exposes celebrity underpants Posted: 8 months ago by Bornbad
It is a little known fact that Belgium's finance minister wears blue and white striped boxer shorts and the Brussels underpants museum has a pair to prove it.
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