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The Museum of Psychic Experience operated from 2004 until its closing in 2007, whereupon it was reborn as "Haunted" at the same location.

Haunted itself closed down in August 2014.

... Daily Mail astrologer Mr Cainer previously sold his horoscopes from the shop.

He joined forces with his friend Uri Geller, the international mind- and spoon-bender, to relaunch it as the Museum Of Psychic Experience in May 2004.

Visitors originally paid £15 for a tour through “mind-opening experiments, providing a personal encounter of psychic power and potential”.

One such experiment took place in the Water Room where people were transmitting negative thoughts to one glass of water, and positive ones to another. The water was then to be frozen and the ice crystals analysed in Japan for any differences. ...

Visitors were tested for their ability to be see into the future, encouraged to try to move objects by the power of their minds and invited to sit in the “aura” chair to see their psychic aura reproduced in colourful lights.

TV psychic Derek Acorah filmed an episode of Ghost Towns Live at 35 Stonegate in January 2006. He was apparently strangled and tipped over the back of a chair by a lively spirit.

In February 2007 the Psychic Museum closed its doors after Mr Cainer revealed only 100 people a week were going through its doors.

It was later reborn as Haunted – “York’s most haunted house” where tourists can pay £7 for tours of the Mask Room, Lantern Room (haunted by a balding monk), Seance Room and more.
SOURCE: https://www.yorkmix.com/haunted-to-close-astrologer-gives-up-the-ghost-on-spooky-attraction/
 
And now there's a museum dedicated to hangovers ...
Student opens Museum of Hangovers in Croatia

A Croatian university student said swapping stories with friends gave him the idea for the country's newest attraction: the Museum of Hangovers.

Rino Dubokovic, a student in Zagreb, said he was sharing stories of drunken mishaps with friends when he came up with the idea for a museum chronicling unusual hangover stories and displaying objects related to those experiences.

The Museum of the Hangover, which opened its doors this month, features exhibits including a collection of unusual items people found after a night of heavy drinking, a "beer goggles" reflex-testing room and an interactive area where visitors can share their own hangover experiences.

Dubokovic said the aim of the museum is not to glorify heavy drinking, but rather to create a bond between people based on their strange hangover experiences.

"In the future, we want to make people aware of the bad things related to alcohol," he told CNN.

Dubokovic said he is hoping to secure funding to expand the museum and make it a permanent attraction in the city.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/1...m-of-Hangovers-in-Croatia/8791577388482/?sl=1
 
A small Ohio town hosts an annual cardboard boat regatta on the Ohio River and the world's only cardboard boat museum.
A SMALL TOWN IN OHIO IS HOME TO THE WORLD’S ONLY CARDBOARD BOAT MUSEUM

Next week, more than 70 colorful boats will set out from tiny New Richmond, Ohio, in the southwestern corner of the state, and race down the Ohio River. Some won’t finish the short 200-yard journey alongside the town's Front Street; they’ll sink before reaching the finish, and that's expected. It's not for lack of skill of the captain—instead, it’s because the boats in the race are all made from cardboard. Captained by all ages, the cardboard boats range from canoes and kayaks to elaborate vessels shaped like guitars, ambulances and battleships.

This is the scene every August in New Richmond, home to both this race, known as the International Cardboard Boat Regatta, and the world’s only Cardboard Boat Museum. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trav...-worlds-only-cardboard-boat-museum-180978310/

MUSEUM: http://www.newrichmond.org/cardboard-boat-museum.html
 
The Cryptozoology & Paranormal Museum- Littleton, NC - Fort Bragg JFK Special Warfare Museum

(skip to 18:55 for the crypto para museum)

 
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CIA museum: Inside the world's most top secret museum​

'On display is a scale model of the compound in which Osama bin Laden was discovered in Pakistan. President Obama was shown a model before approving the raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader in 2011.
"Being able to see things in 3D actually helped the policymakers…as well as help our operators to plan the mission," explains Robert Z Byer, the museum's director who provided a tour.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63023876
 
Wouldn't it be ace if you could visit a museum that had things like a pair of Jim Jonse's glasses, the original sign from the Manson family Sphan ranch plus a pair of Manson's trousers, some of Ed Gein's Mother's hair, freak show multi limbed two headed stuffed animals, the museum owner had his own Great Grandfather's skeleton on display, it had a UFO room, a pinball room, a record shop and much much more weird stuff ...

(skip to 1:30)

 
A Mexican city is building a nice new museum dedicated to a major component of its region's economy - drug trafficking.
'We can't deny our history': Mexican city mayor is building a $764,000 museum dedicated to the history of drug trafficking - featuring notorious cartel bosses El Chapo, Felix Gallardo and Caro Quintero

The mayor of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's hometown is building a new museum that will have exhibitions that will pay homage to some of Mexico's most notorious drug traffickers.

Badiraguato Mayor José Luis López Elenes said that while the goal of the museum is to spark interest the western Mexican city's tourism industry, it was impossible to exclude the troubled past of El Chapo and his old associates.

'We cannot deny our history,' López Elenes told local outlet Noticiero Altavoz on Tuesday. 'We have to recognize it and we are going to work on that basis. It is possible that we can have drug trafficking museum.' ...

Groundbreaking for the new museum, which is part of an economic redevelopment plan, took place in May. ...

The Sinaloa state government set aside around $730,000 to fund the cost of the construction of the museum, which is set to be completed in December.

The building features columns at the entrance and is located on top of a hill. It will be 116 square meters and the ceiling is 22 feet high.

Local press has reported that the museum will exhibit photographs and other objects of Badiraguato native sons who helped shaped the transnational drug trafficking business. ...
SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...wn-says-new-museum-revolve-narco-culture.html
 
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Strange that no-one’s yet mentioned an attraction in St. Petersburg for which l made a beeline during my visit: the Kunstkammer.

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Completed by Peter the Great in 1727, it houses an eclectic collection of what can only be described as weird shit, including Peter’s personal collection of deformed foetuses ( he had them bottled & shipped to him from all over Russia.)

Peter - normal name, crazy guy - was also a keen amateur dentist, and enjoyed practising his skill set on “volunteers”. Items on display reflect this, so euw!

There’s too much there even to hint at, including some of most delightfully crap taxidermy l’ve ever seen.

The next time you’re in St. Petersburg with a spare 250 roubles, it’s well worth a visit.

https://www.kunstkamera.ru/en/

maximus otter
 
Weird museums and roadside attractions enthusiast Jacob The Carpetbagger visits the Mountain Oddities Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee.

One exhibit in the museum is a prop made specifically for a fairly recent mockumentary presenting mermaids as real. I posted that film in the mermaids thread so it's nice to see this fake mermaid up close for the first time amongst a two headed baby and other bizarre stuff ..

 
Not for those with weak stomachs.

The Disgusting Food Museum - Berlin (with another in Malmo, Sweden)

Disgust is a basic human emotion. It is not universal. What is delicious for one person can be repulsive for another. Our museum presents over 90 extraordinary food exhibits from all over the world such as bull penis, grilled dog, cow’s blood or surströmming. Disgust connects different cultures. Test your good taste and find out what kind of disgusting person you are!


https://disgustingfoodmuseum.berlin/en/
 
Another thread that I didn't know existed. Just over 20 years ago I went to a "museum" in Trujillo, Honduras, which was basically a warehouse with curiosities stacked all over the place or laid out on the floor. I've no idea if it is still there. I recall a fossilised bone claimed to be from an ancient race of giants, Maya artefacts claimed to be over a million years old(!) and a big lump of uranium ore. There was loads of other stuff that I can't remember, but it was a real cabinet of curiosities, not particularly educational in the conventional sense, and most of the labelling was so wildly fanciful that it was hilarious. I hope it is still there and as inaccurate as ever.

Edit: A quick Google turned up its Facebook page - a little more developed (they've opened a swimming pool) but the museum itself looks much as I remember it:

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The Crab museum in Margate:

Eccentric attraction on Kent Thames estuary highlights intelligence of decapods while depicting crabs as 1920s fascists and trade unionists

From The Guardian.

[...]
Their museum is, though, very funny. A diorama shows a spotted reef crab dressed as a trade unionist, in a standoff with a moon crab representing the British fascists, while a common box crab in a tiny policeman’s helmet fails to intervene. The creatures would never be seen together in the wild, they explain, so they decided they may as well show them taking part in the 1926 general strike.
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