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Design Panoptikum, a Museum of Extraordinary Objects, is an unnerving world of retro-tech attached to body parts, medical equipment, & items from past & future eras. It reminds me of the show “Criminal Minds,” Berlin style.
The “space carnival atmosphere” is a spooky, yet whimsical, world of doll-like mechanical monsters.
These eerie figures, and the furnishings, are designed using historical objects from aviation, the medical field, the film industry and more.
If you like freaky art, this is the place.
This horrific thing is actually an old head that dental students practiced on. Owner Vlad may even give you a personal tour of his half design museum, half horror house. Located at: Poststrasse 7 Berlin, 10178 Germany
https://www.facebook.com/Designpanoptikum-surreales-Museum-für-industrielle-Objekte-164829883543984/
The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
Click here to check these great photos and learn more about this museum in Chichibu, Japan.
Click here to visit the website of the museum.
If you are interested in visiting Japan, we host a Kyoto Trip every year in October. Join us next year? Visit our trip page to learn more or email Nancy directly at [email protected] to book your slot.
Peter Mitterhofter Typewriter Museum - Partschins-Parcines, Italy
Open since 1998, this purpose-built museum in Italy’s Bolzano region holds over 1,500 typewriter models in its permanent collection. The museum was built in honour of Peter Mitterhofer, one of the machine’s many accredited inventors, with the help of typewriter collector Kurt Ryba’s donation “for all times and as an inalienable cultural heritage.”
Spanning 4 floors, the museum displays its most polished examples as part of a vast chronology of key-punching and space bar slapping, complete with theatrical re-stagings for those unable to imagine how things were typed before repetitive strain injury was conceived.
Keep drooling over the Peter Mitterhofer Typewriter Museum at Atlas Obscura…
AVANOS HAIR MUSEUM - AVANOS - TURKEY
Locks of women's hair adorn the walls of a cave/house/pottery center with a surprisingly touching origin.
The story goes that the local potter was bidding farewell to a dear friend of his when he asked for something to remember her by. She cut off a piece of her hair to leave as a reminder. He put it up in his shop, and told the story to the visitors and tourists who passed through. Not to be outdone, other women who enjoyed the story left a piece of their hair as well.
More details on the museum here !