The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things

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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

A saucy self-portrait from 1828

29 April 2019 by Chelsea Nichols

The story behind a saucy self-portrait from 1828 by Sarah Goodridge

Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: 19th century, breasts, erotic, female artists, paintings, sex

E.J. Bellocq's photograph of Storyville prostitute with scratched out face.

EJ Bellocq and the Storyville prostitutes

12 November 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: history • Tags: art, erotic, history, photography, prostitute, unsettling

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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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