Oddball Museums

The blog's featured waymark this week, Mutter Museum, is a museum focusing on odd medical rarities. It's waymarked in the oddball museum category and it got me thinking about a few of the odd museum's that I've happened upon while researching waymarks for our road trip. We likely will only stop at a couple of these, but here are a few that we came across: the Squirrel Cage Jail Museum (a wheel of jail cells that circles with a hand crank), the National Museum of Roller Skates, Hormel's Museum of Spam with its "World's Largest Wall of Spam" (for those of you who've never been subjected to the horror of eating or looking at Spam - it's a chopped and formed pork (supposedly) product cushioned in a gelatinous ooze and packed in a can - UGH!), and a barbed wire museum which also sports the world's largest plow, I believe. It never ceases to amaze me that any item, no matter how mundane, will be loved enough by some person to have its own museum.

In the past I used to poke fun at the people who are obsessed enough with something that they could create a whole museum to it. Of course, that was before I started a whole Website and a blog dedicated to the hobby of waymarking. I can no longer point fingers. ;)