20-foot balloon dinosaur at the Virginia Museum of Natural History

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By Eugenia Viti in New Trends on Thursday 9 May 2013

That’s right, some wonderfully talented and imaginative people teamed up with school kids to make a twenty foot balloon Acrocanthosaurus for display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Using a real skeleton of the dinosaur as a guide, they tried to make it as realistic as possible. However, nobody really knows what their skin [...]

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Brain museum in India showcases ‘six hundred brains in an otherwise empty room’

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Tuesday 16 April 2013

In Bangalore, India, which has a geeky rep for being a hub for India’s information technology sector, an offbeat attraction called the Dr Shankar’s Brain Museum, which is open on Saturdays from 10am-3pm, has a superb grey collection of unlabelled brains in jars. Sounds like a visit is rightfully warranted. Also, you should tip off [...]

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The Icelandic Phallological Museum

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By Tanja M. Laden in Cool Travel on Wednesday 27 March 2013

Tucked inside the city of Reykjavík is a sleek, modern-looking little museum that just so happens to display nearly 300 phallus specimens from water and land mammals, including (supposedly) those from Iceland’s “Huldufólk,” i.e., elf-like “hidden people.” The Icelandic Phallological Museum features clean lines and a tidy installation that make it look like it could [...]

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The Museum of Broken Relationships

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By Low Lai Chow in New Art on Saturday 3 November 2012

Back in 2010 when I first heard about the Museum of Broken Relationships (a traveling exhibition of donated emotionally-charged remnants from past relationships), it came across as a tad self-indulgent, or at best, whimsical.

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Famous Art Pieces Being Hung

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By Luke Watson in Cool Websites on Tuesday 8 May 2012

Check out the behind the scenes of famous art pieces being hung, positioned and eased into place around the word. From the small to the ridiculously large, it’s amazing to see the work you love being shunted around the globe.

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