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The most unusual museums of the world

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The list of seven most strange and unusual world museums, where funny, horrible or unusual expositions are exposed.

The medieval torture instruments, Prague, Czech Republic. The visitors are offered a 45-minutes tour around the exposition that consists of 60 torture instruments. Each item is supplied with the information about the usage of the mechanism.

The Museum of Bad Art, Boston, USA. There are 400 "masterpieces" in the collection of the museum, though because of the lack of space, only 40 of them can be exposed simultaneously. The entrance is free of charge. The items for the collection are gathered and moderated by the curator of the museum - Scott Wilson.

Three museums of Sex: in Amsterdam - Netherlands, Paris - France and Husavik - Iceland. In the "Musee de l’Erotisme" in Paris there are items of the modern erotic art exposed and the history of the Parisian prostitution is being told. In the Venustempel in the Netherlands there are paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and contraceptives. In the Icelandic phallus Museum there is a collection of 195 of items. The assortment consists of the salted horse penises, phalluses of mice, hamsters, rats, guinea-pigs, seals, whales and polar bears.

The mysterious Winchester house in San-Hose, California. The mansion of the daughter of the creator of the famous rifle with the same name - Sarah Winchester - is in worth mentioning because the heiress of the multimillion heritage has continued the construction of the house of 160 rooms and 40 bedrooms during 38 years, till the death that came to her in the age of 82. According to the legend, she has been doing this for the souls of the people killed from the rifles of her father that would find shelter in the mansion.

The Mutter medicine history museum in Philadelphia, USA. The museum of the medicine pathology., ancient medicine equipment and biological items is located in the medicine college of Philadelphia. It is famous for the huge collection of skulls and unique items, for example the human guts with the length of 12, meters and the corpse of a woman that has turned into soap in the soil where she has been buried.

The Glora Psychiatric museum, Saint-Josef, Missouri. It tells us the 400-years of history of the treatment of the psychic diseases and also the story of the state psychiatric hospital, founded in 1874 and closed in the middle of 1990s. Among the items exhibited there - phlebotomy blades and 1446 items taken out of the stomachs of the patients.

The International Toilet Museum in New-Delhi, India. This museum tracks the history of toilets since 3000 B.C. till nowadays.

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Article Submitted On: March 27, 2008