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Date Posted: 19:13:09 06/30/03 Mon
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "America's Strangest Museums" by Sandra Gurvis

Published: 1996 by Citadel Press

As the title suggests, this is a tour of more than 100 bizarre little museums people (and a few corporations) have set up across the USA ( and a couple in Canada). Some include:

-The Museum of Mestruation (started by a single man in his 50s)

-The Tooth Fairy Museum

-The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices

-Spam has a museum

-So does Combat, the bug spray company. They also have a contest in which you can send them dead roaches dressed up in dioramas.

-The Bull Hall of Fame.

Indiana offerings include:

-The Old Jail Museum in Crawfordsville

-The Dan Quayle Center and Museum in Huntington

-Drake's Midwest Phonograph Museum in MArtinsville

-The Bird's Eye View Museum in Wakarusa.

My favorite is "the Museum of Bad Art: in Massachusetts. Here is a link: Museum of Bad Art.

You can see samples by clicking on the different galleries.

Anyway - fun book. Makes you wonder a bit about your fellow man and his collecting habits. This book receives an "A"

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