3 Funniest/Weirdest Museums in The Whole Wolrd!!!
- Julia Chen
- Sep 20, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 25, 2019
In 283 BC, the Museum of Alexandrian was built by Ptolemy I Soter, located in the ancient Egyptian port city. As the center of education, research and culture in the ancient Mediterranean world, it was widely regarded as the first museum in this world. Although the museum was destroyed in 270 BC, its educational and research function still lasted until the 5th century and made an indelible contribution to the development of the civilization.
In fact, the museum in early modern period all started from wealthy individuals' art collections. For example, I've been to the Vizcaya Museum & Garden in Miami which used to belong to James Deering in the early 20th century. It was never public until it was taken over by the government. Fortunately, there are various museum all over the world in nowadays. In addition to the museums that display artworks and rare antiques, there are now more and more funny and ridiculous museums and galleries. Keep reading for my TOP 3!
Cup Noodles Museum
@ 8-25 Masumicho, Ikeda, Osaka
At present, there are two Nisshin Cup noodle museums in Japan, commonly known as instant noodle museums. The founders are the main inventors of instant noodles, Mr. Ando Baifu. The contents are basically the same, but the size of Yokohama is relatively large. It has opened since September 17, 2011, next to World Porters. Entering the museum, you will first see the Expo Instant Noodle History Box Exhibition Hall, which shows the instant noodle packaging of different times and different origins since 1958. There are more than 3,000 kinds of well-known brands such as Master Kong and Shine Ramyun.
On the third floor, there is a "My instant noodle factory" that is popular with tourists. You can choose your own instant noodles in 4 kinds of soups and 12 kinds of ingredients according to your preference. A meal is 300 yen and you can go directly to the queue without an appointment.
Museum of Broken Relationship
Ćirilometodska ul . 2, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
It was the first broken relationships theme museum, which was established in 2006. It is located in the upper part of the Croatian capital, Zagreb. It is a museum dedicated to the collection of things after the couple broke up. It has more than 1,000 exhibits donated by the world's lovelorn people. In 2011, it was awarded the "Europe's Most Creative Museum Award" by the European Museum.
Filmmaker Olinka Višticand sculptor Dražen Grubišić co-founded the Museum of Broken Relationships. They had been in love for four years, but they broke up in the end. When they were dealing with common items, they joked that they needed to set up a museum to store them. They didn't expect it to be realized in three years.
So they began to ask their friends to donate personal belongings left after the breakup. And those things made up the first collections. In the following years, these collections were toured around the world, including Argentina, Bosnia, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. More than 200,000 people visited the exhibition from 2006 to 2010. Until 2016, the exhibition tour has covered 21 countries and regions around the world.
Museo Subacuático de Arte
Cerrada Las Golondrinas, Alfredo V. Bonfil # 24, 77560 Cancún, Q.R.,Mexico
In 2009, Museo Subacuático de Arte was created in the waters near Cancun. Located on the Caribbean coast near Cancun, a resort in northern Mexico, this museum is now the largest underwater museum in the world. This is a museum that requires diving to get there.
The project was co-founded by former Cancun Nautical Association President Roberto Díaz Abraham and National Marine Park Director Jaime González Can.To start this unique project, they invited the British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylo to collaborate on the museum's first exhibits. Today, MUSA has more than 500 permanent, large-scale sculptures and has been hired by many artists to become one of the world's largest and most ambitious underwater art destinations.
One of the aims of opening this art museum is that the Mexican tourism department hopes that the new tourist attractions will attract more tourists to reduce the tourist pressure in the Caribbean West Coast National Park, so that the coral reefs there have a breathing space and slowly restore.
Since the opening of the museum, there have been many controversies. Some people like it, and some people think that it has nothing to do with the surrounding natural environment and don't understand why it is built.
So that's my top 3 funniest/weirdest museum in the whole world. Please let me know what you think about these museums or if you have any funny/ridiculous/weird museums that you can share with me!
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