The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things

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

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Illustration of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin. Russuan fairytales.

GUEST POST: Claire Atwater on The Bone Mother illustrations

3 January 2012 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: history • Tags: art, fairy tale, folklore, guest post, history, illustration, images, trees

Philip Braham's photograph of places in Scotland where people have committed suicide.

Suicide landscapes by Philip Braham

31 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: art, landscape, photography, scotland, suicide, trees, unsettling

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

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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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Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits
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