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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 19 2008 | travel, video, museum, designer, craft, collection, shoes, fashion, couture
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    Quoted: Salvatoré Ferragamo began creating wearable works of art for Hollywood films in the 1920's.Now in Florence the Ferragamo Museum houses over 10,000 shoes from...

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2008 | art, museum, history, taxidermy, biology, sculpture, collection, craft
    custom creature taxidermy

    Sarina is a self-proclaimed science nerd who incorporates her past formal art education with her passion for biology and the bizarre. Her childhood preoccupation with cryptozoology and anomalies of nature manifest themselves in her outlandish reveries of fur and flesh and every peculiar artifact she creates. These influences, combined with a slightly dark sense of humor, have carved out an unusual niche for Sarina in the art world. She specializes in creating fictional composite animals and sideshow gaffs for discerning collectors and the many connoisseurs of the curious around the world. We now invite you to peruse the culmination of nearly three decades of the study of art and the natural sciences in her eccentric works.

    "I call it art, you can call it whatever you want."

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 21 2007 | watch, nerd, collection, museum

    Nerd Watch Museum

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | hoax, museum, collection
    Museum of Hoaxes Hoaxipedia

    Museum of Hoaxes Hoaxipedia

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 23 2007 | museum, congenital anomalies, freaks, surrealism, art, collection
    :: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia::

    "Disturbingly Informative"

    The Mutter Museum.
    Medical Science Museum and Archive.
    AAAWWWESSSSOOOMMMME......
    Is there a better way to spend an afternoon? NO. THERE IS NOT.

    "The museum is best known for its large collection of skulls and anatomical specimens including a wax model of a woman with a human horn growing out of her forehead, the tallest skeleton on display in North America, a 5'-long human colon that contained over 40 pounds of fecal matter, and the petrified body of the mysterious Soap Lady, whose corpse was turned into a soapy substance called adipocere. Many wax models from the early 19th century are on display as are numerous preserved organs and body parts. The museum also hosts a collection of teratological specimens (preserved human fetal specimens), a malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland's hard palate, the conjoined liver from Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, and a growth removed from President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth."