The Most Interesting World Museums

The Most Interesting World Museums

Nothing can be compared with a visit to a cultural place, that helps you to obtain the feeling that at least a couple of days of your vacation you have spent for the intellectual purposes. But let's be honest, - instead of another tour into the life of the prehistoric mankind - would you rather like to visit something less boring? Here is the list of 7 most unusual world museums.

Museum of the medieval tortures, Prague.

In the medieval times, careless words could easily lead you to the public square, where the instruments for extracting of all kinds of admission from the potential heretics were always prepared and ready to use.

In this museum the visitors will be in 45 minutes acquainted with 60 terrible instruments of torture with a detailed description how exactly this had worked and what has happened to a person after this torture. For example, Head-Crusher: the chin of the accused has been put into a wooden holder, a helm has been put tightly on the head and the mechanism has begun to rotate quicker and quicker... you can imagine, what kind of remains were left after that... The entrance to the museum costs about $12.
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Museum of Bad Art, Boston.

Of course, one can argue for a long time - what is it - the top art. But the founder and curator of the Museum of Bad Art (MODA). Scott Wilson, has apparently a good nose for all that stinks. When the terrible painting of the unknown author has appeared - "Lucy in the Field with Flowers", Wilson came to the idea to create a museum, where "Lucy" has occupied the honorable place. Unconceivable perspective, mashed up colors, severe face of the elderly Lucy with the gray brows grown together on the bridge of nose make the painting a true "masterpiece" of the museum.

There are about 400 works in the collection that arouse perplexity. But because of the lack of space not more than 40 works are exhibited simultaneously - the area of the museum does not allow more. The entrance is free!

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Three museums of Sex: in Amsterdam, Paris and Husavik (Iceland)

The Parisian Musee de l'Erotisme is located in the 7-storeyed building in the Quartier Pigalle - the red lights district. Pigalle is famous for it's numerous sex-shops, cabaret Moulin Rouge is also located here. Erotic items from the whole world are presented in this museum, including phallic symbols from South Africa and Asia. There is an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Parisian prostitutes and an exhibition of the contemporary erotic art. Entrance costs about $12. Hotels in Paris 

In the museum in Amsterdam, or the Venus Temple (Venustempel) paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and all the impossible erotic toys are presented... All of them incredibly tickle the nerves and excite. The entrance costs about $5. Hotels in Amsterdam

The Museum of "Phallology" in Iceland is located in a small fishers town Husavik. About 250 kinds of animal phalluses are located here, all natural - dried and hung on the walls, or preserved in alcohol. They say that in the museum there are phalluses of every mammal in Iceland. The founder of the museum Hjartarson gathers the collection since 1974. It includes also salted horse penises that were a delicatessen in the past and also "men's pride" of mice, hamsters, rats, guinea-pigs, seals and white bears. One glass is still empty. It is supposed to host the human exemplar that has been already bequeathed to the owner of the museum by the 92-years old Icelander - Paul Arason. The entrance costs $7,50.

The mysterious Winchester House, San-Hose, California.

The mansion of Sasrah Winchester, the daughter of the creator of the rifle bearing the same name. The heiress of the multi million heritage has continued the construction of the house for 160 rooms and 40 bedrooms for 38 years, till her death that came to her at the age of 82. She was constantly pursued by visions and to get rid of them, she has decided to build a shelter for the souls of the people killed from the rifles of her father so that they could find their peace at last. The excursion round the mysterious mansion costs $23,95.

The Mutter museum of the medical history, Philadelphia, USA.

More than 20 000 items of the human body anomalies are presented here. This museum is most famous for it's huge collection of skulls. There are also unique items there, as for example the human guts with the length of 12,5 meters and the corpse of a woman that turned into soap in the soil where she was buried. There is also a collection of the ancient medical instruments. The entrance costs $12, children free of charge.

Among the other museums, where you surely won't be bored are:

• The Glora Museum of the Psychiatry, Missouri
  Among the presented items - blades for phlebotomy and 1446 items from the stomachs and guts of the patients (paper clips, nails, pins, buttons...).
• International Museum of Toilets, New-Delhi, India.
  Here you can find out that the toilet of the Queen Victoria was made of gold and in the throne of Louis XII there was a special hole for the vase. A huge collection of the lavatory pans, vases, bide and urinals, representing the evolution of the toilets since 3000 B.C. till nowadays is presented there.