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2019

Museum Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée — 2 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
31st Oct 2019, 5:58 pm · museums
It really does have a lot of skeletons.
Museum David Rumsey Map Center — Bing Wing, Green Library, 459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
30th Oct 2019, 8:54 pm · museums
A room full of maps.
Museum Pirates Museum — 103, Rue de Liège, Tsaralalàna, PRIORI travels, 4th floor, Boîte Post BP-273, Antananarivo, 101, Madagascar
29th Oct 2019, 3:51 pm · museums
Pirate paraphernalia.

Weeknotes: Niche Museums, Kepler, Trees and Streaks

Every now and then someone will ask “so when are you going to build Museums Near Me then?”, based on my obsession with niche museums and websites like www.owlsnearme.com.

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10:42 pm / 28th October 2019 / museums, productivity, projects, visualization, weeknotes, baked-data, streaks, duolingo
Museum Novelty Automation — 1a Princeton Street, London, WC1R 4AX
28th Oct 2019, 4:54 pm · museums
The microbreak holiday simulator.
Museum International Art Museum of America — 1023 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
28th Oct 2019, 12:13 pm · museums
A plaque with an effervescent caption.
Museum The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum — 461 Brookside Village Way, Gatlinburg, TN 37738
28th Oct 2019, 4:01 am · museums
Shelves full of salt and pepper shakers
Museum The Gregangelo Museum — 225 San Leandro Way, San Francisco, CA 94127
25th Oct 2019, 7:23 pm · museums
A weird alien bed
Museum California State Railroad Museum — 111 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
25th Oct 2019, 5:23 am · museums
A lovely old timey train
Museum Hyde Street Pier — 2905 Hyde Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

This historic ferry pier now hosts a collection of ships, including an 1886 square rigged sailing ship (the Balclutha), a 1907 steam tugboat (the Hercules) and Eureka, a side-wheel paddle steamboat built in 1890 which is now the largest existing wooden ship in the world.

24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Looking down the pier at the Eureka
Museum Museum of Russian Culture — 2450 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94115
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Museum Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia — 214 California Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Six antique Pez dispensers on display
Museum The American Bookbinders Museum — 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
The outside of the bookbinders museum.
Museum Bigfoot Discovery Museum — 5497 Highway 9, Felton, CA 95018
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Proprietor Michael behind his desk, covered in Bigfoot paraphernalia
Museum Musée Mécanique — Pier 45, Fishermans Wharf, San Francisco, CA 94133

Unique collection of antique coin-operated arcade games, orchestrions and other artefacts, some of them over 100 years old.

24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Mechanical circus at Musée Mécanique
Museum Jehning Lock Museum — 175 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Museum Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum — 1660 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
The architecture of the museum has an ancient Egyptian flavor
Museum The Bay Model — 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
A portion of the Bay Model
Museum Santa Cruz Surfing Museum — 701 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
Museum Nike Missile Site SF-88 — Field Road, Sausalito, CA 94965
24th Oct 2019, 4:32 am · museums
A nuclear missile inside the bunker

2018

Datasette: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (via) The Metropolitan Museum of Art publish a CSV file on GitHub with details of 464,360 items from their collection. I turned it into a searchable Datasette instance.

# 9th May 2018, 6:38 pm / art, museums, datasette

2017

First King Tut went to the British Museum in 1972, where over 1.7 million people went to see him. Then in June 1974, with the threat of Watergate and impeachment hanging over him, Richard Nixon signed a bilateral trade agreement that Henry Kissinger had negotiated with President Sadat of Egypt. One of its terms: that King Tut would come to America. Two years later, with Nixon gone under the darkest of clouds, he did.

— Chris Michaels

# 26th December 2017, 9:08 am / museums

2012

What are the few must-do things in London before one leaves this place for good?

In terms of museums, it really is worth checking out the big four: the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the V&A. They’re all exceptional (and free to enter). Here are some highlights...

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1:32 pm / 8th August 2012 / london, museums, travel, quora, science-museum

2010

Follow a Museum day. It’s follow a museum on Twitter day. Useful directory of museum Twitter accounts around the world, organised by country.

# 1st February 2010, 11:15 am / museums, twitter

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