Cabinets of curiosities article on MSN

My article about US shops and museums with a wunderkammern aesthetic is up on MSN City Guides today (welcome, MSN readers!), so please do give it a read - it was glorious fun to write about.  For those of you who are intrigued, here is an older entry I wrote about cabinets of curiosities on this site, and below is a list of even more recommended places:

Xanadu Gallery in San Francisco

Necromance in Los Angeles

Mutter Museum in Philly

Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Abita Mystery House in Abita Springs, Louisiana

Belhaven Memorial Museum in Belhaven, North Carolina

Any others you'd like to suggest? 

Comments

[Josh Wilburn]

The House on The Rock in Spring Green, WI. It is hands-down one of the strangest places I have ever been -- and I have been to several on your list.

[momsays]

Have you been to the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri? Artist Bob Cassilly's vision and hard work has created a very unique and unusual attraction.

http://www.citymuseum.org/allattractions.html

[Blue]

The Harvard Museum of Natural History, www.hmnh.harvard.edu is in Cambridge, MA. Their exhibits of 12,000 specimens -- dinosaurs, meteorites, Glass Flowers, and hundreds of animals from all over the world are drawn from the University's vast natural history collections of more than 21 million specimens. This is a wonderful museum for families--kids love the 'frozen' zoo, with tigers, lions, giraffe, hippo, elephant, rhino, and so many more.

[Pam]

Oh, you are absolutely right! Thank you, just corrected that.

[Pam]

House on the Rock and the City Museum both sound amazing. I think it's time I take a roadtrip, don't you?

[cavalaxis]

I think the Museum of Jurassic Technology might be considered a cabinet of curiosities, even if it's as much art installation as it is museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Jurassic_Technology

http://www.mjt.org

[Pam]

Hi there. Thanks for this: I actually included The Museum of Jurassic Technologies in my article: http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/article.aspx?cp-documentid=10011772&page=1 It's on page 4.

[Pam]

"Technology" I mean!

[emily]

Does your unique brand of genius run in your family? How lucky that would be for your sibblings.

[Susan Sanford]

This used to exist in the lower part of Covent Garden in London, is now online

http://www.cabaret.co.uk/index.php

[Pam]

Marvelous - thank you!

[clairdelune]

There's a quirky space in Austin I like-The Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata:
http://www.mnae.org/

[opposable thumbs]

The Woodman Institute in Dover, NH -- It's mostly devoted to the natural sciences, but it's also part doll museum, part colonial historical house, and part military history museum.