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Yiu take my heart away. Transplant patient sees own heart go on display at museum Published 30 minutes ago Share IMAGE SOURCE, TOM EVANS Image caption, Jennifer Sutton's heart is on display at the Hunterian Museum in London By Toby Wadey BBC News A woman has visited her own heart at a...

Behind the Headlines | Returning Remains: Context, Consent, and Colonialism Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 7 – 8pm An online discussion with Dr Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), Peggy King Jorde, Prof Samuel Redman (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Evi Numen (TCD), and Dr Olof Ljungström (Karolinska...

I found myself in The Smoke again the other day, so I thought I'd visit an attraction I'd long planned to see: the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury. The Foundling Hospital from which it takes its name was founded in 1739 by a philanthropic sea captain, Thomas Coram. He returned to England after...

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I went to the Danish Zoological Museum in Copenhagen last week. In Denmark we have a kind of gnome with a pointy red hat, generally associated with christmas. They are called "nisse" or "nisser" in plural. You can see some pictures here: http://www.kb.dk/kb/postkort/ Well, at the museum they...

Wondering what "inconvenient" artifacts the Smithsonian Institute is said to have or to have "lost" over the years.

Having stumbled across some mementos from last years drunken jaunt across Eastern Europe (Poland/Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia Finland), I thought i'd mention a little known museum of Fortean interest in Lithuania's second city, Kaunas. Officially known as the A. Zmuidzinavicius Art Museum, it is the...

A thread for unusual museum exhibits like: news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2672538 Link is dead. The MIA web article (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050316194024/http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2672538

mummified cats Hi, I am new on this list and this may sound peculiar but I am working on an online cat-a-log, being a catalog of mummified cats found in houses, churches,deliberatley placed there as a form of foundationsacrifice, all information is welcome, though some of these have a...

This is a question I have kicked around in the back of my mind, especially when it comes to something like the British Museum. Does anyone have a story about a ghostly something inhabiting a museum? In Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History has, on display, the stuffed skins of the...

Egyptian Relics Moving By Themselves In Museums http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=693418 -------------------------------------------------------------- Spooky mystery at Bergen Museum Ancient Egyptian shabti - funerary figures that represent servants in the...

The wax figures of Madame Tussaud - didn't see first get fame casting wax heads during the French Revolution? Did she invent the process of showing them? Did she get any famous heads that still exist, like Marie Antionette? And/or would a wax head from so long ago actually still be...

Museum of stuffed gophers canada.com/national/story.asp?id=C41E0F4B-39F9-456A-9EB5-CC25BD42AA00 Link is dead. No archived version found. The albino gopher (actually a Richardson's ground squirrel) is the least strange thing in this story. There's the guy who shot it: "I heard an ancestor of...