Europe

What Makes Europe Tick

Questions currently being researched by Museum staff. Why are there more public toilets in Europe than in America? A 21st century observation: Where have all the bidets gone?

European restaurants:

• You have to pay extra to sit down.
• You do not have to tip (or at least, you do not have to tip as much as in America).

Belgium

• A Piece of Tan Paint Collected from a Spot Adjacent to the Pedestal of the Manneken Pis, Brussels

England

• Bone from an English Church
• English Artifacts

France

• A Piece of the Palace at Versailles
• Square, Rough Stone from the Piers of the Eiffel Tower, Paris
• Tiny Triangular Piece of Grout from the Foundation of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Ireland

• Irish Shallelagh of the O'Brien Family

Germany

• Piece of Wood from Strasbourg Cathedral

Italy

• Feathers from the Piazza San Marco, Venice

Neatherlands

• Flat Section of Paving Stone from in front of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Green Plastic Bracelet worn by Dan Daly while visiting the "Heineken Experience" in Amsterdam

Russia

• Russian Chalices "The Adulation of Franz Liszt", (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886)
• See also Alexander Pushkin and related artifacts