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Museum of unbelievable things will be opened in London

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In the very center of London, at the Piccadilly street in August will be a new museum opened: "Ripley’s Believe It or Not!".

It will exhibit various amazing things, for example a Mini Cooper car completely incrusted with Swarovski crystals, absolutely real equipment for hunting for vampires, 70-centimeter long hair lump taken out of the cow's belly and three dried heads from Ecuador.

The first Ripley's museum, also called Odditorium, has been opened in 1933 in CHicago. The author of the concept became Robert L. Ripley - artist, journalist, architect and collector. In December of the 1918, while working as an comics artist for the "New York Globe" newspaper, he has created his first comics - "BELIEVE IT OR NOT!". Today this column appears regularly in the newspapers of 38 world countries and the motto itself became the visit card of all 29 Ripley's museums, scattered all over the world.

In search of the items for his museums, each of which is a masterpiece of the architectural and designer art, Ripley has traveled all over the world. Each museum is unique in it's own way, it is always a gaudy unusual building and it's items never repeat.

The idea of the Ripley project has been implemented not only in the astonishing museums, equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies, but also in the daily television show "Ripley's "Believe It or Not!", that tells during an hour about all the unbelievable world events: about a Pakistan girl that cries with glass tears, the Chinese blind musician that can reproduce any melody that he has heard a couple of seconds ago on the piano, about the unique surgical operations for splitting of the Siamese twins, about the Thai tarantula hunters.

Among the items, presented in the Hollywood Ripley's museum there is a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost that has been made by the Englishman - Reg Pollard out of 1 016 711 matches and in the San-Francisco Ripley's museum there is a 8-feet tall dinosaur figure made completely of car bumpers and the Van Gogh portrait out of the roasted bread.

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Article Submitted On: May 20, 2008