Saturday, June 9, 2012

Museums: As Unusual As They Can Be

By Jay Banks


The word "museum" indicates an organization that obtains and looks after a set of artifacts and other objects of scientific, inventive, cultural, or historic importance and exhibits them to the general public. The first things that the majority think about when they hear this word are dinosaur skeletons, traditional relics, or old warfare. However , this is not the case for the following museums. These organizations showing objects such as important dog collars or toilets are a bit different, some would even say weird, yet they're still very fashionable. Visitors who've already seen all of the classics or are just waiting for something odd shouldn't miss these exciting places where they can learn lots of phenomenal and unique information.

Here we introduce you 2 of the world's most unusual museums that should be on your bucketlist:

Police Museum

Vancouver













The last museum of our list is the Vancouver Police Museum, previously known as the Vancouver Police Centennial Museum. It opened in 1986 to mark the centennial of the Vancouver Police Office. Aside from vintage motorbikes and fake currency, their collection includes some unusual pieces like skin samples showing contact wounds, appropriated home-made weapons, and a mock morgue with an autopsy table that might or might not have held Errol Flynn.

The museum, run by the Vancouver Police Historical Society, organizes one or two popular instructional programs for scholars such as Mini Police Academy, Forensic Science, and Walking The Beat. Furthermore, it features several public programs, including Sins of the City Walking Tour and Forensic Science Drop-ins. The Vancouver Police Museum is located in the previous Coroner?s Courtroom at 250 E. Cordova Street.


The Dog Collar Museum

Leeds Castle, Kent













Leeds Castle is a preferred tourist destination that has got a lot to offer - majestic, luxurious interiors, 500 acres of lovely parklands, a maze, a grotto, a golfing course, and a dog collar museum. Shockingly, the unique collection of historic and engaging dog collars spanning 5 centuries at Leeds Castle is the only one of its type in The UK. Every year, more than 500,000 visitors from around the globe travel to Leeds Castle and enjoy the exhibition of more than 100 collars and related exhibits in the dog collar museum.

The collection of dog neckwear, which dates back to medieval and Victorian times, was initially built by the Irish medieval scholar, John Hunt, and his better half, Gertrude, who passed the collection to Leeds Castle in 1979 in memory of her husband. The dog collar museum also memorialises the Castle's last non-public owner, Olive, Lady Baillie, who was a well known dog owner and whose love of humankind's best chum galvanized Gertrude Hunt to donate the collars.






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