Who doesn’t love a weird museum? In the UK alone we’ve got galleries dedicated to crabs, pharmaceuticals and of course, vaginas. Meanwhile, further afield in Europe you’ve got Amsterdam’s famous sex museum, the Museum of Break-ups in Zagreb and Froggyland, also in Croatia, which is dedicated to taxidermied amphibians displayed to look like they are doing human activities. Not peculiar at all.
Now a new list of Europe’s most bizarre museums has been revealed, and one is in the UK. In the study by easyJet, 2,000 Brits voted for the weirdest museums on the continent to come up with the 20-long list.
The only British museum to make the list was the Surgeons’ Hall Museums in Edinburgh, which came in eighth place. Home to a collection of grisly antique instruments, the Surgeons’ Hall is one of the oldest museums in the UK dedicated to the history of surgery.
Not for the squeamish, inside you can see gruesome pathology specimens (think hands in jars, and the like), surgical and dental instruments, artefacts – including a book said to be made from human skin – and art depicting a historic tooth extraction. Visitors can also take part in the Blood and Guts walking tour, which tells the story of Edinburgh's medical history.
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However, the Surgeons’ Hall had nothing on the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik – the world’s only museum dedicated to penises – which was crowned as Europe’s strangest. Also named as some of Europe’s weirdest museums were the sewer museum in Paris, Amsterdam’s Torture Museum and the Comic Art Museum in Brussels.
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