REALLY bad hole-in-the-wall museums

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:45pm

in the Titanic discussion Luv mentioned draggin people to really bad museums, and it got me to thinking, what is the worst, hole-in-the-wall museum you've been to.

for me, it was the Sisi Museum in Munich, dedicated to the Empress Elizabeth of Austria.......it was obvious the exhibits were never cleaned, and everything was falling apart......and most of it was junk.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:53pm

Do battlefields count? My dad must have dragged our family to every mid-Atlantic battlefield associated with the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. I understand that something important happened there, but it's just an empty field.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:56pm

I have to tell the story about the Titanic museum.

My father and I drove 3 plus hours to Springfield, MA to see this Titanic museum one weekend, several years ago. We thought it was going to be a big deal, since Springfield wasn't really very far from Wood's Hole, where Robert Ballard's lab is. It was literally two teeny, tiny rooms in the back of a run-down drug/greeting card store. They had a lot of nifty knick-knacks from the wreckage, but it was less-than impressive, and kind of angering that they called it a museum, as though it was some big attraction.

My dad was pretty pissed.

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 03:56 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:57pm

luv, that is exactly how the Sisi museum was.....I made friends from Munich come with me, and I was SO embarrased when we got inside....

skittles, battlefields count......

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:58pm

Lol, Emcee, I live in a neighboring town to Springfield and I definitely remember seeing something like that.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 3:58pm

Kennedy Conspiracy Museum.

unorganized. unprofessional. un-everything.

the only plus was that it was interesting.

Posted: 5/7/06 at 4:00pm

Do battlefields count? My dad must have dragged our family to every mid-Atlantic battlefield associated with the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. I understand that something important happened there, but it's just an empty field.

The summer course I took at the College of William & Mary did the exact same thing. We drove hours to stare at an empty field. I think looking at a photograph of it would have had the same educational value.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 4:06pm

The first time I went to Alaska when I was 7, my mother and I were in Anchorage and we went into this Trappers Museum. It was 2 incredibly old men sitting in a room surrounded by a lot of very scary, sharp things hanging on the walls.

[Mamie]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:31pm

I was about 16 and my family was driving cross country to California. We would often go off the main drags just so we could see whatever was interesting. One time it got to be evening and we ended up staying at this very old, very rundown motel. There was a sign in the office saying that there was a 'nature museum' in the back cabin. It turned out to be one very dusty room with things like 2 tailed snakes, 3 legged rabbits, and odd road kill inside. Based on the way it smelled, I'm not at all certain that all the artifacts were preserved.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:48pm

If you're ever in Columbus, Georgia be sure to check out the Lunchbox Museum. It is really just an attic room above this guy's antique store where he's got a couple hundred vintage lunchboxes on display. Impressive collection? Sure. Museum? Not so much.

I also know where you can see a display of cat stains on off-white carpet, but there is a fee for admission.

[MistressoftheHouse]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:49pm

I was at an amusement park with my family once, and not even a very good amusement park, and it started to thunderstorm. We ran into the nearest building for cover, which turned out to be some museum about coal. (I live in PA and coal mining was a big industry here.) It was small and uninteresting...not the most fun place to hide out until the storm was over.

[Mamie]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 6:18pm

I also know where you can see a display of cat stains on off-white carpet, but there is a fee for admission.

When were you in my apartment?

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:34pm

I've been taking tour groups through there every Tuesday and Thursday while you were at work for the past eight months. You don't mind, do you?

[Mamie]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:55pm

You're actually finding groups willing to shell out money for that? Good on ya!

(It does explain the rapidly disappearing toilet paper.)

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 07:55 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 11:28pm

The Elvis Is Alive Museum in in Wright City, Missouri was huge disappointment.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 11:37pm

roadsideamerica.com has a very funny listing for the Elvis Is Alive museum.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==776

[Kringas]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 11:41pm

I would like to get that book by the real Lisa Marie.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:52am

Mamie, I hear wonderwaiter made a nifty profit on that, too!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:58am

undi, that is one of my fav online museums

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:00am

Undi, make sure to find 'Sunday on the Pot with George".....lol

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:28am

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 11:28 AM