Museums and Collections

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.