Top 10 Extremely Weird Museums in the World

Visiting a museum can be a great learning experience. Usually the museums are dedicated to the historical monuments, and reflect the cultural and traditional beauty of a state. Some of the world’s museums have something extraordinary in the fields of science and technology. It is interesting to know that there are some museums which have been dedicated to themes like cats, water, and others. Let us check out the list of top 10 extremely weird museums in the world.

10. Museum Of Bad Art

The Museum of Bad Art or MOBA was established in 1994. It has been made to expose the lowest quality of art. The museum was founded by Scott Wilson, a dealer in antique. He started collecting bad art stuffs with his friend Jerry Reilly, and kept the stuff in this museum. Nowadays, there are hundreds of such ill-looking art monuments in this museum.

9. Museum Of Burnt Food

This museum started with Grammy-nominated harpist Deborah Henson-Conant cooking a hot apple cider when she, all of a sudden, got a call and went out. On coming back, she found that the dish had been completely burnt. This is what the theme of this museum is. Here the burnt foods are kept, such as sweet potatoes, and others.

8. Museums Of Questionable Medical Devices

Founded by Bob McCoy, this museum consists of devices invented to cure maladies of 20th century. Here you can view the device which is a foot-powered breast-enlarging pump, and several others. Some of its devices look extremely weird such as the phrenology reader, the Buster Brown shoe-fitting fluoroscope, and others. It was closed down in 2002 because the devices were placed in the Science Museum of Minnesota.

7. The Museum Of The Holy Souls In Purgatory

This museum has items that have been touched by the souls of ancient times. Believe it or not but the people say that this museum has all the monuments which directly or indirectly belong to the sould. It is situated in a small room inside the ‘Church of the Sacred Heart of the Suffrage’ in Rome. The founder of the museum is Victor Jouet. Items like a book with a hand print burned into the pages by a deceased priest are kept in display here.

6. Beijing Museum Of Tap Water

This museum has more than 120 different items that are significantly related to the history of tap water in China. The museum contains extremely weird and strange-looking things of that time. It is built to celebrate the significance of water in our lives.

5. Winchester Mystery House

Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester founded this museum in 1800. It is said that after the death of Sarah’s daughter and husband, she contacted ghosts of the people who were killed by the Winchester family’s rifles in this house where today we see this museum. It has various rooms, all are strange-looking.

4. Museum Of Broken Relationships

A weird travelling show started in 2006. It exhibited the items of an ex-couple (Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišic). Their daily use items are kept in this museum. The purpose of this museum is to offer people an outlet for their grief.

3. Cockroach Hall Of Fame Museum

The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum was founded by an exterminator, Michael Bohdan. He had started the concept in his shop at Plano, Texas. The museum contains dressing dead cockroaches as celebrities and historical figures. It was built in 1980s when Bohdan had held a contest of finding the biggest cockroach in Dallas, America.

2. Paris Sewers Museum

Paris Sewers Museum (also called Le Musée des Égouts de Paris) is the only vaulted-walled sewer. It was founded in 1370. It is spread in an area of 2,400 kilometers. Since ‘The World’s Fair’ of 1867, the French government dedicated much money to renovate this museum for catching the eyes of millions of tourists.

1. The Cat Museum

This museum is built to celebrate the existence of cats in the city of Kuching in Malaysia. It was created by the Chief Minister of the state, and has over 2,000 artifacts including a 5,000 year old mummified cat from Egypt. This is a unique museum, containing a lot of information about cats.