The Internet has many hidden secrets that most web surfers are unaware even exists. Here are “10 Weird Online Museums Worth Visiting”, and this is just the beginning of a most awesome trip.
The Vintage Christmas Catalog Archive
The vintage Christmas catalog archive project is one of the most fascinating websites that I have personally come across in a very long time. This website contains completely archived Christmas catalogs from 1933 through to 1988 and with the entire inside pages, so that we can browse through to get a real history lesson in retail economics. Can you possibly imagine Goodyear Tires selling for as little as thirteen US Dollars?
Franks’s Vinyl Museum
This is a perfect little museum for both music fans and cover art admirers. Covering several decades of vinyl record cover art of the oddest, strangest and weirdest kinds. Get ready to flashback into the past and for some of you; revisit your youth with the artists, bands, musicians and singers that made you dance and sing the night away.
Brush and floss your teeth three times a day to keep the dentist away. Explore the tooth-tastic world of toothpaste collected from all over the world. Also, learn the history of toothpaste and interesting facts about dental health product that might surprise you.
Museum of Mourning Photography
Honoring the dead and passed away among us, the Museum of Mourning Photography offers its visitors a peek into funerals and wakes of yesteryear. This museum contains photographs of dead people and some are photos of young dead children that may make some visitors uncomfortable, and if so, then just skip visiting this museum.
PEZ candy dispenser collectors can browse through dozens of unique and unusually rare PEZ candy dispensers and learn additional obscure details about the PEZ containers.
The Boombox once reigned supreme in the Hip-hop and Break Dancing culture, because they packed a powerful sound into a then portable box. Just throw the Boombox over-the-shoulder, turn up the volume and strut your stuff, so that the entire neighborhood knew you were coming and that you were so cool. This is an interesting look back onto an age before high performance computerized portable personal hand-held music devices.
Bob Trudy’s Brand Name Pencils
Take a tour through the intriguing universe of the wooden graphite pencil. Hundreds of new wooden vintage writing instruments leaves its mark in the hand of the writing wo(man). The Wooden Pencil Museum exhibits an extraordinary collection of an almost obsolete communication tool in the twenty-first century.
Visa Cash and Mondex Cards Museum
This is the most comprehensive collection of Visa Cash and Mondex cards and the history of the smart card programs. The majority of the civilized world routinely uses some type of credit or debit card to make purchasing transactions fast and easy everyday, but most of us are quite uneducated regarding its earliest beginnings.
Frequent flyers and globetrotting travelers might appreciate this unique collection of airline flight stewardess uniforms collected from nearly every airline that have ever existed. If obscure fashion trends are your thing, then the Uniform Freak Museum will exceed your expectations.
The Plate Shack is the most comprehensive collection of license plates from the year 1976. The license plates were issued both in the United States and Canada during 1976 and can all be found here all in one convenient place at the Plate Shack.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Damn, I was just going to log off! Now I will have to stay on a little longer!
April 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Nelson, I love museums. Thanks for handpicking such a wonderful assortment.