The
Lynx (
Lynx canadensis) with her kitten. Some authorities group this animal under
felis. Her urine is said to harden into precious stones.
Links
A selection of our colleagues who demonstrate a fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us. We list them, electronically, for your illumination and erudition.
Virtual Places We Like
J. Tithonus Pednaud presents a compendium of human oddities, Albino; Bearded; Conjoined; Deformed; Dwarfism; Fakes… Etc.
The Lost Museum is home to a virtual P. T. Barnum's American Museum on-line!
McGill University has a virtual Wunderkammer. Its all about History and interaction.
The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy has a Web site. They also give tours of garbage dumpsters in Manhattan's Chinatown, in search of rare specimens.
Roadside America: Two words that say it all.
You will be Shocked and Amazed at shockedandamazed.com and you'll find "A great bunch of magazines" and "A great web site!"
Our colleague James Taylor presents an encyclopedia of novelty & variety performers & showfolk!
Weird America seems to be as enamored of the Main Street Museum as we are of Joe Citro!
Museology: Museums-about-Museums
The City Reliquary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite Civic Organizations, with a new-old perspective on New York City.
The Coney Island Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of Coney Island.
The Creation Museum in Cincinnati is a Biblical science museum. O My!
The Mutter Museum is the museum of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, memorializing Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins," and the "Soap Lady." And who doesn't love the Bunkers and the Soap Lady?!
The Reanimation Library in Brooklyn is a specialized repository for books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation but take on new life as resource material for various cultural archeologists.
Natural History and Other Great Collections
The Icelandic Phallological Museum may be the world's only museum showcasing the phalli of all the mammals found in a single country. What could be better than that?
The Marvelous Kunstkammer of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts houses wonders!
The Pitt Rivers Museum is Oxford's great collection of everything.
Local Interest: Our Colleagues for a Great Local Trip
The American Precision Museum in nearby Windsor, Vermont is both a world renowned repository for machine tools, and a record of the Upper Valley's long history on technology's cutting edge.
Bread and Puppet our outstanding, brave, colorful, merry, fierce colleagues in all things theater and they even have their own museum in a barn!
The Center for Cartoon Studies. Who knows, perhaps White River Junction was a cartoon before it was a town. Sometimes it seems that way and so a "Cartoon College" is a natural fit for our Downtown. "Hey CCS! Youre the Best!"
The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation celebrates and studies America's 30th president, who was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his boyhood home and his grave. And buy cheese!
The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is located just one hour north of the Main Street Museum an hour well spent to reach this fascinating and stately institution.
The Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont has art and Vermontiana galore! The Main Street Museum has co-curated shows of artifacts there, too.
Northern Stage right here in White River Junction is a great place for live theater. Check out a show after visiting the Museum!
Check out the Vermont Historical Society. Their Pavilion Building in Montpelier is home to a real (stuffed) catamount. And don't forget the Vermont History Center in Barre, Vermont.
Road Trips to See Relics: Real Places We Like
The Home of Andrew Johnson in Greenville, Tennessee is now a National Park. Be sure to check out the willows in the back yard. They grew from little shoots taken from willows growing around Napoleon's tomb at Fontainebleau. Not kidding.
The Barnum Museum of Natural History in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Mother Nature's world P.T. Barnum-style!
The Bostonian Society in Boston. You can search their "object catalog" online. Neat Stuff!
The Cazenovia Public Library in Middle-New York State has a museum, with an Ethiopian neck rings and an Egyptian mummy!
The Villa Zorayda is a collection of wonders from the "East" including an Egyptian rug made of cat hair! All in moss-draped St Augustine, Florida.
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) are long-term friends. Conservation teams from the MSM stabilized "Peter the Kitty", one of the master-works from this Dedham, Massachusetts, collection.
The Christian Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is something "anyone born in the 20th century" should see. (Maybe anyone born in the 21st as well...)
The UCM Museum in Abita Springs, Louisiana, offers you an unforgettable time, viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"
