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The Mutter Museum is gonna win this hard.
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The US Army Medical Museum is a treasure trove of such marvels. Bring your own barf bag.
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Some years back, the Quay Brothers (in their own inimitable style) did a short film of selected items in the Mutter Museum’s collections, Through the Weeping Glass. Interesting stuff.
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It’s a magical place.
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I figure the Museum of Jurassic Technology could be in the mix.
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I’m expecting one curator to go full “Grim Prairie Tales” and post some perfectly innocuous looking item, where the horror is all in the object’s provenance.
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Here’s something just like that, from my private collection:
A compressor and gas turbine from turbostarter/APU that was installed in Warsaw Pact chemical warfare jet.
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I mean this is fine and all, but look up the Nábrók.
-D
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Dark creepy magical, but as we all know, that’s the best kind.
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The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO has a current exhibit about lobotomies. Another weird Missouri museum I haven’t (yet) been to, the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, supposedly includes a very rare dissection & preservation of the human nervous system. I can’t find a photo, but surely will post one when I finally make it there
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