The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things

a collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history

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Wedding dress made from a parachute that saved the grrom during World War Two.

WWII wedding dress made from a life-saving parachute

5 December 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: history, Museums • Tags: dress, history, museum, parachute, textile, war, wedding, WWII

Stephanie Casper's knitted meat: roast chicken.

Knit Meat by Stephanie Casper

18 November 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, food, humor, knit, meat, sculpture, textile

Jar of pickled moles from Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London.

GUEST POST: Neil Lebeter on pickled moles, haunting trees and Friday disasters

16 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, history, Museums • Tags: curiosities, grotesque, guest post, haunting, installation, institution, moles, museum, outsider art, sculpture, textile, trees

Judith Klausner embroidered toast with egg

Embroidered Toast by Judith G Klausner

14 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, embroidery, humor, sandwich, sculpture, textile, toast

Taxidermy birds in little knitted sweaters by Annette Messager.

Birds in teeny sweaters

1 August 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Museums • Tags: art, bird, curiosities, installation, museum, taxidermy, textile

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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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