
The nun’s back side
This 1731 painting of a nun contains a saucy hidden secret.
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: erotic, nuns, paintings
This 1731 painting of a nun contains a saucy hidden secret.
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: erotic, nuns, paintings
The shoe that Marie Antoinette lost on her way to the guillotine.
Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: fashion, guillotine, history, shoe
Vintage Krampus gloves from a small town in Austria
Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: creepy, fashion, krampus, vintage
A creepy 19th century automaton of a monkey dressed as a pastry chef, serving a severed cat head in a pastry pie
Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: animal, automaton, cat, creepy, monkey
Create your own bat colony: a downloadable art activity designed by curator and museum educator Alice Fennessy
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, Historical Art • Tags: animals in art, bat, educational, guest post
Would you dare open this glass bottle, said to contain the spirit of a witch?
Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: curiosities, magic, mystery, witch
Some good life advice: don’t let anyone take a picture of you taking snuff, unless you want to be immortalized as a Victorian nose-picker. Snuff is a form of tobacco ground into a fine powder, taken by snorting a little pinch up one’s nose. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a luxury only the rich could afford. So in these pictures, the posh ladies are trying to demonstrate their social standing by posing with a status symbol. But […]
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs • Tags: curiosities, nose, photography, victorian era, weird, women
Does your chewing gum give you nightmares? If not, the Blinkey Eye Soda Mint Gum Machine is here.
Categories: Curiosities • Tags: automaton, creepy, curiosities, eye, horror
A collection of apothecary jars for storing oil of earthworms, plus recipes for making your own disgusting worm syrup
Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: apothecary, curiosities, drugs, medicine, science, worms