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Berman Museum of World History

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

Anniston, Alabama

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The museum was started by an a Farley Berman, an American GI who married a French spy while stationed in North Africa. The two spent 40 years traveling the world and collecting antiques, oddities and weapons.

Farley Berman was never entirely clear about how some of the objects made their way back to Alabama. Some pieces, he suggested, might have made their way home in his bedroll after World War II; others, he liked to say, simply appeared magically in his house. One such piece that seem to have made its way home in his WII bedroll is a set of Hitler's tea service.

Having been a spy Berman also liked to collect easily concealed weaponry, and has a fascinating collection of such items as "a flute that fires bullets, a tin of cough drops that conceals a tiny gun, an ink pen that can fire a .22 or a capsule of poison gas."

We explored the Berman Museum on Obscura Day - March 20th, 2010. Photos, stories and more here

 

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Located in Lagarde Park, Anniston, Alabama, at the junction of Highways 431 and 21. From Interstate 20, exit 185, 7 miles north on Highway 21. Allow 1-1/2 hours driving time from Birmingham or Atlanta. To view a map, and map directions from your location directly to the museum, click here.

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Berman Museum of World History
840 Museum Dr.
Anniston, Alabama, 36201
United States
33.69494, -85.819053
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