Incredible Museum Items You Never Knew Existed

Museums are known for their impeccable exhibits which echo the myriad facets of world history. From iconic structures to well-known personalities all find place in museums. But did you know museums house some of the world’s most incredible things as well?

Toilets of the World: Weird as it may sound the Sulabh International Toilet Museum of New Delhi makes itself unique by displaying exhibits from toilets taken across the globe.

Exhibits of Broken Relationships:

relationship-artifact

Drazen Grubisic and Olinka Vistica a Croatian couple made way for their unique Museum of Broken Relationship which sought to showcase the grief and disillusionment that stemmed from their broken relationship. The exhibits embrace things which echo both happiness and grief including a pair of kinky garters with an attached text which said “I never put them on. Maybe if I had, the relationship would have lasted longer.”

Cat Exhibits:

Cat Exhibits

The Cat Museum of Kuching in Malaysia presents over 2000 exhibits that relate to the feline family and which present interesting facts about the history of cats that are domesticated. Among the displays are the Felis Badia, one of the rarest of the feline species and the mummified cat which is 5000 years old brought from Egypt.

Rib Bones of Individual with Rickets:

The Mutter Museum of Philadelphia houses

The Mutter Museum of Philadelphia houses weird exhibits from the human body including rib bones of an individual who had suffered from rickets. The bones thus are softened due to vitamin D deficiency, a factor which is clearly visible in the rib bone display.

Head Press:

Head Press

The Amsterdam Museum of Torture Instruments a has for one of its exhibits a Head Press which was used during the Middle Ages for the purpose of execution. The machine underwent the process of guillotine by crushing the head and then the brain inside till it was completely dead.

The Palace of Pills:

Palace of Pills

A stunning and incredible piece of art the Palace of Pills is one of the highlights of the Science Museum of London which had been used as poster campaign model for their anti-Big Pharma endeavor. The palace is made of syringes and medicine bottles and is the brainchild of artists Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunn.

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