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Cabinet of Curiosities

So the Mona Lisa fails to excite you and dinosaur bones seem a bit passé? If you've grown tired of the standard museum fare, check out these strange items on display at museums across America.
July 2009

Published in Culture :: Culture


fig 1.1 Conjoined Twins

Fused at Head & Thorax, 1851
Mütter Museum
Philadelphia
www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp


fig 1.2 "Ask the Brain" Mechanical Fortune Teller

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum Farmington, MI (27 miles from Detroit) www.marvin3m.com


fig 1.3 Benjamin Hurd Family Record and Hair Wreath

Leila's Hair Museum Independence, MO (11 miles from Kansas City) www.hairwork.com/leila


fig 1.4 Psycograph, 1930s

Science Museum of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN www.smm.org


fig 1.5 Liberace's 200-pound "King Neptune" Costume

Liberace Museum
Las Vegas www.liberace.org


fig 1.6 Space-themed Salt & Pepper Shakers

Museum of Salt & Pepper Shakers Gatlinburg, TN (42 miles from Knoxville) www.ludden.com/sandp

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