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In my web wanderings, I come acroos a lot of weird stuff. For example, I found a listing of over 100 very unusual museum sites. You simply won't believe some of these. Check out this and the next two posts for one that tickles your sense of irony.
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1. Wooden Nickel Museum Join Date: October 05, 2000 The Wooden Nickel Historical Museum has the world's largest collection of Wooden Nickels. See pictures of various Wooden Nickels from the long history and many uses of Wooden Nickels, such as souvenirs, tokens, scouts, coupons, collecting, trading, state fairs, centennials, etc., etc.
2. Toilet Seat Art Museum Join Date: October 03, 2000 Artistically decorated Toilet Seat Lids. Each one is individually designed and numbered. There are over 500 different in the collection and more are being produced every week.
3. Cigar Box Art Join Date: October 03, 2000 Collection of cigar box art. These are the pictures that were on the inside of the cigar box.
4. Martin's Owl Collection Join Date: October 03, 2000 Owls, Owls, and more Owls.
5. World of Crabs Join Date: October 14, 2000 A collection dedicated to that charismatic crustacean, the Crab
6. The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 A full-featured museum celebrating that lowly substance that plays such a major role (or {;}should that be "roll"?) in our daily lives. We offer myriad specimens from the common to the {;}exceeding rare, artworks of wondrous beauty, and numerous informational exhibits.{;}
7. Furnace Sticker Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 Furnace cleaning stickers taken off old furnaces dating from the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Featuring "Power-Vac" trucks.
8. American Icon, American Collectible - The Classic Sunbeam Mixmaster Join Date: January 02, 2003 "The mixer America grew up with" - the complete story of 20th Century America's most popular kitchen appliance, and the man who made it happen, from its birth to the last of its classic breed.
9. Classic Cameras Join Date: November 07, 2000 The site includes a timeline of the history of cameras and descriptions and pictures of many - mostly German - classic cameras.
10. Transit Uniform Buttons N.California Join Date: October 17, 2000 An educational page showing various old uniform buttons worn by street car, cable car and other transit workers in the San Francisco, California (primarily) Bay Area and some from Los Angeles, CA. Just for information.
11. Lacy Glass Buttons Join Date: October 17, 2000 An informational site showing some of the prettiest antique glass buttons you've ever seen! They're called Lacy Glass, come see why! Molded in handmade iron molds, carrying sharp detail and featuring reverse painting, just breathtaking!
12. British Lawnmower Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 The Britsh Lawnmower Museum houses a collection of over 200 pristine exhibits which depitcs British Engineering at its best.{;}Enter the fascinating world of this award winning internationally famous Museum and a unique experience, it marks the culmination of a dream by Ex racing cahmpion Brian Radam.
13. Retrocom 27 Megacycle Museum Join Date: October 18, 2000 A virtual museum containing pictures and ads of vintage tube type CB radios from the golden age of Citizen Band radio. {;}{;}
14. Vintage Pix: Images of Women in the Past Join Date: October 17, 2000 Private collection of antique photos and humorous vintage postcards of women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: courtship and marriage, women at work, Merry Widow hats, studio props, flappers and more{;}{;}
15. Melvyn Wright's World of Vintage Slot Machines Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site is a museum of classic British penny-in-the-slot machines of the 1930s to 1960s. There is also an extensive section devoted to Bryans machines
16. Dan's Matchbox Picture Pages Join Date: October 17, 2000 Over one thousand pictures of Matchbox cars, featuring the Premiere series, Matchbox Collectibles, new 1-100 series, and old 1-75 series regular wheel and superfast vehicles. Also includes links to related sites.
17. Mountain Dew Memorabilia Guide Join Date: November 19, 2000 The Mountain Dew Memorabilia Guide is an electronic repository{;}created with the express purpose of displaying electronic images of Mountain Dew Memorabilia{;}created by the Tip Corporation, PepsiCo, its advertising agencies, merchandise licensees, regional{;}bottlers and private parties for the private reference use and enjoyment of Mountain Dew collectors{;}world wide.
18. Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices Join Date: November 22, 2000 Museum of pocket electronic calculators, slide rules, addiators and abacusses{;}
19. The Toilet Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 Take a stroll through a world of toilets with your curator, Burt Stark. You are sure to be moved.
20. Graham Barker's Navel Fluff Collection Join Date: October 18, 2000 The incredible world of navel fluff (lint), featuring the world's biggest and longest-term collection of an individual's navel fluff, with photos and an online survey you can take part in.
21. Ronald Dupont Jr.'s Elongated Coins Join Date: October 18, 2000 Photographs of personal collection of elongated (squished) coins.
22. JMH's Valve Collection Join Date: October 19, 2000 A personal collection of valves (vacuum tubes) and associated devices, of all shapes, sizes and ages.
23. Toaster Museum Foundation Join Date: October 19, 2000 A site devoted to educating, entertaining, and enlightening visitors about the history and cultural importance of the bread toaster.
24. Comptometer - Biography of a Machine Join Date: October 21, 2000 Comptometer - Biography of a Machine {;} The Comptometer, together with trained operators, comprised THE back office data processing system of the early 20th century. It was used by far more large businesses and governments than IBM and Univac combined until the 1940s. THE most comprehensive collection of data and pictures of this historic calculator anywhere in the world!
25. The Old Calculator Web Museum Join Date: October 21, 2000 A Web-based museum specializing in preserving, documenting, and sharing information about late electromechanical and early electronic calculators, from the early 1950's, through the late 1970's. Detailed exhibits on early Wang, HP, Casio, Canon, Sharp, Friden, Monroe, Compucorp, and many others.
26. David Dahle's Powerline webpage Join Date: January 02, 2003 A small photo gallery of old power line construction and substation photos.
27. USCGC WESTWIND Icebreaker Museum Join Date: October 22, 2000 Interactive history and image archive of the now decommissioned US Coast Guard icebreaker WESTWIND maintained by former icebreaker sailors.
28. Pezananda's Fantasy Free Pez Page Join Date: October 22, 2000 A site with pictures and descriptions of my PEZ dispenser collection, now more than 545 strong!
29. The COMWEB Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 The museum pages of Canada's retired Foreign Service Communicators.
30. Darryl Hudson Antique Electric Fan Collecting Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site displays many early electric fans from the turn of the last century and also lists many obsolete and otherwise unavailable parts that are in stock and readily available for those collectors who may need them to make their fan complete.
31. ONE MANS JUNK Join Date: October 30, 2000 Museums dedicated to preserving some of humanities disposible relics. Specifically Soda Cans and Embossed beer bottles.
32. My Tissue Box Cover Collection Join Date: November 04, 2000 My collection of wacky and unusual tissue box covers! Animals, faces, and more. :)
33. Todd Augsburger's Roller Ogan Website Join Date: January 02, 2003 Roller Organ Website by Todd Augsburger. A comprehensive source of Roller (Cob) Organ information, including a complete list of Rollers.
34. Post Mark Museum Join Date: November 05, 2000 The Post Mark Museum is the largest single collection of post marks and postal history items in the world. It is located in Bellevue, Ohio and sponsored by the Post Mark Collectors Club.
35. The Fisher Museum of Automotive Art Join Date: November 06, 2000 The personal collectiong of automobile drawings by Derrek Fisher between 1989 to present. Comments welcome and encouraged.
36. AOL CD Preservation Guild & Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 The Web's only AOL CD museum complete with a CD search engine. Dedicated to those unsolicited little plastic discs we've all come to love. The A.C.P.G. Museum is constantly updated. We gladly accepts donations or trades!
37. Just For Openers Join Date: November 22, 2000 For collectors of bottle openers and corkscrews.
38. National Association Breweriana Advertising Join Date: January 02, 2003 For collectors of beer advertising items.
39. Novelty Transistor Radios Join Date: January 02, 2003 A collection of unusaul transistor radios disguised as other things;even Jimmy Carter is depicted as half man/half peanut and includes an am radio to listen to!
40. The Glass Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 Great photographs and text explaining all kinds of glass; up-dated regularly with new material forming an entire museum of glass on the web.
41. MIke's Electric Stuff Join Date: January 02, 2003 Antique electric glassware - valves/tubes, bulbs, geissler tubes, nixies and other digital computing and display tubes. Also tesla coils, high voltage and science stuff
42. Soviet Calculators Collection Join Date: January 02, 2003 Over 125 Russian calculators in the collection. For every model has photo and description.
43. Barry S. Goldberg's Pocket Watch Collection Join Date: January 02, 2003 This is my collection of antique pocket watches, on display for the whole world to see. I currently have over 60 different watches, ranging from an English keywind watch made in 1776 to an American-made ship's chronometer from the 1940's. The site also contains a wealth of useful information about pocket watches in general.
44. Rosie's Needle Book Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 Needle Books are primarily advertising premiums from the 20's through 50's. Rosie's Needle Book Museum offers pictures, information, and a monthly newsletter all about these colorful collectibles.
45. Mrs Mangles Join Date: January 02, 2003 I have an unuseual hobby I collect antique mangles{;}
46. Virtual Matchbox Labels Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site is dedicated to matchbox labels and matchcovers - the small artworks that most of us do not pay much attention to. {;}But they reflect our history, our likes and dislikes and sometimes they are real artworks in themselves. I can show you here only a small part of their variety. And I do hope you will like them. {;}
47. Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site Join Date: January 02, 2003 My personal virtual museum containing 600+ pictures of collectible antique light bulbs inlcuding early radio tubes and box art, Christmas lights, Edison era hand-blown incandescent lamps, history, books to read online, discussion forums, and more!
48. 75 Years of Band-Aid Join Date: January 02, 2003 Images of Band-Aid tins
49. Funomena Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange Join Date: January 02, 2003 The world's smallest museum on wheels featuring 13 mind-boggling exhibits of the weird and strange! See Real Elvis Hair, the Amazing Weeping Icon and Alien Abduction Evidence. A site not to miss!
50. The Sugar Packet Collector Join Date: January 02, 2003 A hobby that is just a little bit different. Sugar Packet collecting is an inexpensive hobby that people of all ages and from all over the world can pariticipate in. Visit the Sugar Packet Collector Page for a few examples from Phil Millers Collection of over 7,000 items. Links to other collectors and clubs are included also.
tiltjlp
1. Wooden Nickel Museum Join Date: October 05, 2000 The Wooden Nickel Historical Museum has the world's largest collection of Wooden Nickels. See pictures of various Wooden Nickels from the long history and many uses of Wooden Nickels, such as souvenirs, tokens, scouts, coupons, collecting, trading, state fairs, centennials, etc., etc.
2. Toilet Seat Art Museum Join Date: October 03, 2000 Artistically decorated Toilet Seat Lids. Each one is individually designed and numbered. There are over 500 different in the collection and more are being produced every week.
3. Cigar Box Art Join Date: October 03, 2000 Collection of cigar box art. These are the pictures that were on the inside of the cigar box.
4. Martin's Owl Collection Join Date: October 03, 2000 Owls, Owls, and more Owls.
5. World of Crabs Join Date: October 14, 2000 A collection dedicated to that charismatic crustacean, the Crab
6. The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 A full-featured museum celebrating that lowly substance that plays such a major role (or {;}should that be "roll"?) in our daily lives. We offer myriad specimens from the common to the {;}exceeding rare, artworks of wondrous beauty, and numerous informational exhibits.{;}
7. Furnace Sticker Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 Furnace cleaning stickers taken off old furnaces dating from the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Featuring "Power-Vac" trucks.
8. American Icon, American Collectible - The Classic Sunbeam Mixmaster Join Date: January 02, 2003 "The mixer America grew up with" - the complete story of 20th Century America's most popular kitchen appliance, and the man who made it happen, from its birth to the last of its classic breed.
9. Classic Cameras Join Date: November 07, 2000 The site includes a timeline of the history of cameras and descriptions and pictures of many - mostly German - classic cameras.
10. Transit Uniform Buttons N.California Join Date: October 17, 2000 An educational page showing various old uniform buttons worn by street car, cable car and other transit workers in the San Francisco, California (primarily) Bay Area and some from Los Angeles, CA. Just for information.
11. Lacy Glass Buttons Join Date: October 17, 2000 An informational site showing some of the prettiest antique glass buttons you've ever seen! They're called Lacy Glass, come see why! Molded in handmade iron molds, carrying sharp detail and featuring reverse painting, just breathtaking!
12. British Lawnmower Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 The Britsh Lawnmower Museum houses a collection of over 200 pristine exhibits which depitcs British Engineering at its best.{;}Enter the fascinating world of this award winning internationally famous Museum and a unique experience, it marks the culmination of a dream by Ex racing cahmpion Brian Radam.
13. Retrocom 27 Megacycle Museum Join Date: October 18, 2000 A virtual museum containing pictures and ads of vintage tube type CB radios from the golden age of Citizen Band radio. {;}{;}
14. Vintage Pix: Images of Women in the Past Join Date: October 17, 2000 Private collection of antique photos and humorous vintage postcards of women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: courtship and marriage, women at work, Merry Widow hats, studio props, flappers and more{;}{;}
15. Melvyn Wright's World of Vintage Slot Machines Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site is a museum of classic British penny-in-the-slot machines of the 1930s to 1960s. There is also an extensive section devoted to Bryans machines
16. Dan's Matchbox Picture Pages Join Date: October 17, 2000 Over one thousand pictures of Matchbox cars, featuring the Premiere series, Matchbox Collectibles, new 1-100 series, and old 1-75 series regular wheel and superfast vehicles. Also includes links to related sites.
17. Mountain Dew Memorabilia Guide Join Date: November 19, 2000 The Mountain Dew Memorabilia Guide is an electronic repository{;}created with the express purpose of displaying electronic images of Mountain Dew Memorabilia{;}created by the Tip Corporation, PepsiCo, its advertising agencies, merchandise licensees, regional{;}bottlers and private parties for the private reference use and enjoyment of Mountain Dew collectors{;}world wide.
18. Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices Join Date: November 22, 2000 Museum of pocket electronic calculators, slide rules, addiators and abacusses{;}
19. The Toilet Museum Join Date: October 17, 2000 Take a stroll through a world of toilets with your curator, Burt Stark. You are sure to be moved.
20. Graham Barker's Navel Fluff Collection Join Date: October 18, 2000 The incredible world of navel fluff (lint), featuring the world's biggest and longest-term collection of an individual's navel fluff, with photos and an online survey you can take part in.
21. Ronald Dupont Jr.'s Elongated Coins Join Date: October 18, 2000 Photographs of personal collection of elongated (squished) coins.
22. JMH's Valve Collection Join Date: October 19, 2000 A personal collection of valves (vacuum tubes) and associated devices, of all shapes, sizes and ages.
23. Toaster Museum Foundation Join Date: October 19, 2000 A site devoted to educating, entertaining, and enlightening visitors about the history and cultural importance of the bread toaster.
24. Comptometer - Biography of a Machine Join Date: October 21, 2000 Comptometer - Biography of a Machine {;} The Comptometer, together with trained operators, comprised THE back office data processing system of the early 20th century. It was used by far more large businesses and governments than IBM and Univac combined until the 1940s. THE most comprehensive collection of data and pictures of this historic calculator anywhere in the world!
25. The Old Calculator Web Museum Join Date: October 21, 2000 A Web-based museum specializing in preserving, documenting, and sharing information about late electromechanical and early electronic calculators, from the early 1950's, through the late 1970's. Detailed exhibits on early Wang, HP, Casio, Canon, Sharp, Friden, Monroe, Compucorp, and many others.
26. David Dahle's Powerline webpage Join Date: January 02, 2003 A small photo gallery of old power line construction and substation photos.
27. USCGC WESTWIND Icebreaker Museum Join Date: October 22, 2000 Interactive history and image archive of the now decommissioned US Coast Guard icebreaker WESTWIND maintained by former icebreaker sailors.
28. Pezananda's Fantasy Free Pez Page Join Date: October 22, 2000 A site with pictures and descriptions of my PEZ dispenser collection, now more than 545 strong!
29. The COMWEB Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 The museum pages of Canada's retired Foreign Service Communicators.
30. Darryl Hudson Antique Electric Fan Collecting Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site displays many early electric fans from the turn of the last century and also lists many obsolete and otherwise unavailable parts that are in stock and readily available for those collectors who may need them to make their fan complete.
31. ONE MANS JUNK Join Date: October 30, 2000 Museums dedicated to preserving some of humanities disposible relics. Specifically Soda Cans and Embossed beer bottles.
32. My Tissue Box Cover Collection Join Date: November 04, 2000 My collection of wacky and unusual tissue box covers! Animals, faces, and more. :)
33. Todd Augsburger's Roller Ogan Website Join Date: January 02, 2003 Roller Organ Website by Todd Augsburger. A comprehensive source of Roller (Cob) Organ information, including a complete list of Rollers.
34. Post Mark Museum Join Date: November 05, 2000 The Post Mark Museum is the largest single collection of post marks and postal history items in the world. It is located in Bellevue, Ohio and sponsored by the Post Mark Collectors Club.
35. The Fisher Museum of Automotive Art Join Date: November 06, 2000 The personal collectiong of automobile drawings by Derrek Fisher between 1989 to present. Comments welcome and encouraged.
36. AOL CD Preservation Guild & Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 The Web's only AOL CD museum complete with a CD search engine. Dedicated to those unsolicited little plastic discs we've all come to love. The A.C.P.G. Museum is constantly updated. We gladly accepts donations or trades!
37. Just For Openers Join Date: November 22, 2000 For collectors of bottle openers and corkscrews.
38. National Association Breweriana Advertising Join Date: January 02, 2003 For collectors of beer advertising items.
39. Novelty Transistor Radios Join Date: January 02, 2003 A collection of unusaul transistor radios disguised as other things;even Jimmy Carter is depicted as half man/half peanut and includes an am radio to listen to!
40. The Glass Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 Great photographs and text explaining all kinds of glass; up-dated regularly with new material forming an entire museum of glass on the web.
41. MIke's Electric Stuff Join Date: January 02, 2003 Antique electric glassware - valves/tubes, bulbs, geissler tubes, nixies and other digital computing and display tubes. Also tesla coils, high voltage and science stuff
42. Soviet Calculators Collection Join Date: January 02, 2003 Over 125 Russian calculators in the collection. For every model has photo and description.
43. Barry S. Goldberg's Pocket Watch Collection Join Date: January 02, 2003 This is my collection of antique pocket watches, on display for the whole world to see. I currently have over 60 different watches, ranging from an English keywind watch made in 1776 to an American-made ship's chronometer from the 1940's. The site also contains a wealth of useful information about pocket watches in general.
44. Rosie's Needle Book Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 Needle Books are primarily advertising premiums from the 20's through 50's. Rosie's Needle Book Museum offers pictures, information, and a monthly newsletter all about these colorful collectibles.
45. Mrs Mangles Join Date: January 02, 2003 I have an unuseual hobby I collect antique mangles{;}
46. Virtual Matchbox Labels Museum Join Date: January 02, 2003 This site is dedicated to matchbox labels and matchcovers - the small artworks that most of us do not pay much attention to. {;}But they reflect our history, our likes and dislikes and sometimes they are real artworks in themselves. I can show you here only a small part of their variety. And I do hope you will like them. {;}
47. Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site Join Date: January 02, 2003 My personal virtual museum containing 600+ pictures of collectible antique light bulbs inlcuding early radio tubes and box art, Christmas lights, Edison era hand-blown incandescent lamps, history, books to read online, discussion forums, and more!
48. 75 Years of Band-Aid Join Date: January 02, 2003 Images of Band-Aid tins
49. Funomena Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange Join Date: January 02, 2003 The world's smallest museum on wheels featuring 13 mind-boggling exhibits of the weird and strange! See Real Elvis Hair, the Amazing Weeping Icon and Alien Abduction Evidence. A site not to miss!
50. The Sugar Packet Collector Join Date: January 02, 2003 A hobby that is just a little bit different. Sugar Packet collecting is an inexpensive hobby that people of all ages and from all over the world can pariticipate in. Visit the Sugar Packet Collector Page for a few examples from Phil Millers Collection of over 7,000 items. Links to other collectors and clubs are included also.