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The nun’s back side

30 May 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

This 1731 painting of a nun contains a saucy hidden secret.

Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: erotic, nuns, paintings

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Marie Antoinette lost her shoe and then her head

23 May 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

The shoe that Marie Antoinette lost on her way to the guillotine.

Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: fashion, guillotine, history, shoe

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Scary vintage Krampus claws

20 May 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

Vintage Krampus gloves from a small town in Austria

Categories: Curiosities, Unsettling Things • Tags: creepy, fashion, krampus, vintage

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Monkey automaton with a severed cat head

17 May 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

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

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GUEST POST: Make your own bat colony with Alice Fennessy

27 April 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

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

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Witch in a bottle

26 January 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

Would you dare open this glass bottle, said to contain the spirit of a witch?

Categories: Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: curiosities, magic, mystery, witch

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Mistaken for a nosepicker

26 January 2020 by Chelsea Nichols

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

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Dispenser of gum and nightmares

20 November 2019 by Chelsea Nichols

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

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Syrup jar for oil of earthworms, with image of Saint Ignatius painted above words OL.LUBRI

Syrup jars for earthworm oil

15 July 2019 by Chelsea Nichols

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

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For those with a taste for the peculiar, The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things is an imaginary museum that explores the strange place between art and curiosities.

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