#TTOT Round-Up: Museums

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Here's the round-up of this week's #TTOT on "Museums!"

Q1 via L_e_a_h: What is the most unusual museum you've visited?

• KiwiCollection: The Sedlec Ossuary or Bone Church in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic contains 40,000 to 70,000 skeletons
• ilivetotravel: The Doge Palace in Venice had a section on chastity belts that could have scared the devil herself! 
• SustainableTrip: There was a miniature museum in Lyon, France with miniature scenes of human life in EXCRUCIATING tiny detail. It was pretty cool
• ehalvey: I walked by the Leprechaun Museum in Dublin
• SmarterTravel: The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia is pretty weird: A collection of anatomical oddities
• emeraldcitytooz: The Umbrella Shop in Tasmania with a display of umbrellas used over the past 100 years
• CaptainandClark: Korea's largest penis park 

Q2 via BackPackerSteve: What's the most interesting museum to visit in your own "backyard"? Why?

• Inga_Ros: Ghost museum in Eyrarbakki in Iceland
• analopezct: Roman Theatre Museum, Cartagena (Spain). one of the most surprising archaeological discoveries of the city 
  
• TravelDesigned: In Chicago not famous but should be.... The National Museum of Mexican Art.... and it's FREE
• lpusastaff: Don't forget outdoor museums: UC Berkeley Botanical Garden & nearby Tilden Botanic Garden make for a fantastic day in the Bay Area
• emeraldcitytooz: Haven't been yet but the Bondi Shark Museum could be interesting
  
• HiddenFlorida: The World Erotic Art Museum. It's incomparable, primal & fascinating

Q3 via waphle: What's the coolest niche museum you've ever been to?

• familytravel4um: One of our fave museums is the Tata Shoe Museum in Toronto... Egyptian reed sandals to Elton John glitter heels
• CareerBrkSecret: The torture museum in Cartagena is cool. Creepy, but cool
• WillingFoot: The museum of Ham in Madrid
• littlegingerkid: Coolest niche museum is the comic book museum in Brussels
• YHZgirl: Coolest nitch museam - Voodoo Museam in New Orleans! Small but really cool
• jennifuchs: Parasitological Museum in Tokyo was quite cool  
• xcomglobal: BALL OF YARN MUSEUM 

Q4 via L_e_a_h What is the most impressive exhibit or item you've seen in a museum?

• analopezct: Robert Capa's Leica, at Science Museum (London). He died with his camera in his left hand, killed by a landmine in Indochina War
• SuuperG: I just love the statue Victory at Samothrace aka Winged Victory in the Louvre
• JaclynLiechti: Definitely the purple-marble bathtub at the Vatican (supposedly belonged to Emperor Nero)
• SwannySA: Slab of the Parthenon at the British Museum (should be returned to Athens)
• hjortur: Seen Mona Lisa, dinosaurs, meteors, space crafts, Egyptology stuff, but most impressive was Terra Cotta army!
• raelinn_wine: The Lady of Shallot by Waterhouse at the Tate Gallery in London
• RainyDayTravelr: The Killing Fields museum in Cambodia
• FareBuzz: Forgot about the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. They have the chair Lincoln was assassinated in and Edison's last breath in a tube 

Q5 via TravelThirst: Most valuable things a good museum must have?

• StayAdventurous: One night with late access. maybe till 10pm
• evanwolf: Great museums have great signage, provenance, and explanations because we're all newbies compared to curators
• LAbackpackrChik: FREE is always nice
  
• SwannySA: Authenticity & atmosphere. Then add sights, sounds & space. Perfect!
• JimODonnell2: Mummies. And a coffee shop with those old time cakey donuts
• TendToTravel: Not too many valuable things in one museum. I don't like a sensory overload! the Louvre is great but too much for me!
  
• MalloryOnTravel: A good coffee shop or bar even

And there you have it, "Museums"!  

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