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Museums

The headdress on display at the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna.

The Fight to Bring Home the Headdress of an Aztec Emperor

The brilliant object sits on display in a Viennese museum—and Mexico's been wanting it back for decades.

Jacob Mikanowski September 26, 2017

Streicher 1869 Grand Piano on display in the museum.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

The Mauer 1 jawbone

Heidelberg, Germany

The Mauer 1 Jawbone

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

Karpeles Manuscript Library.

Duluth, Minnesota

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

Hello, chicken.

natural history museums

See the World’s Most Ordinary Animals as You Never Have Before

Inside a new exhibit that gives dogs, cats, and chickens the full-on natural history museum treatment.

Sarah Laskow September 25, 2017

Lean back and relax in this chair from the late 19th century.

London, England

British Dental Museum

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

Street lights on display.

Los Angeles, California

Historic Street Lighting Museum

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Color lantern slides.

Melbourne, Australia

The Limelight Department

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

Frederick Deeming death mask

Melbourne, Australia

Victoria Police Museum

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

The mural featuring the woman with the Mona Lisa face.

Hrodna, Belarus

Mona Lisa of Grodno

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

Former fire station no 1 and its Watch Tower

Melbourne, Australia

Fire Services Museum of Victoria

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Permanently Closed

The Giant of Extremadura

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

The Hokonui Moonshine Museum.

Gore, New Zealand

Hokonui Moonshine Museum

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

New York, New York

Hispanic Society Museum and Library

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Germantown Colony and Museum.

Minden, Louisiana

Germantown Colony and Museum

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

The beautiful tiles of Manises.

The Ceramics of Manises

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

Brown-nosers.

Prague, Czechia

Brown-Nosers

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The entrance to Piaf's former home and current museum.

Musée Edith Piaf

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.