More than 200 penises and penile parts belonging to various land and sea mammals are displayed in Iceland’s Phallological Museum. Check out the top 12 major museums in Amsterdam and explore the diversity of art, history, culture and educational fun on offer! Absent from this list is Ripley’s Believe It or Not – which admittedly fits the idea of “weird”, but has enough locations around the world to not be very Amsterdam-specific. Hours, Tickets, LocationTime needed: 30-45 minutes. Electric Ladyland | Tweede Leliedwarsstraat 5. KattenCabinet is an Amsterdam museum full of paintings, sculptures, and drawings devoted entirely to cats – plus some real-life cats (I counted four). Gunther Von Hagens’s plastination institute displays … Archive admirers take note, the new Below the Surface website has taken classification to the next level with 134,282 items catalogued with all kinds of fascinating data.

Hours, Tickets, LocationTime Needed: 60 minutes. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to you. Hi! Micropia Museum. From the gold-plated toilets of Roman emperors to medieval commodes, the museum documents the evolution of the toilet through the ages. Micropia | Artisplein, Plantage Kerklaan 38-40. Its focus is on all manner of things unearthed by diggers during the construction of the newly opened North/South metro line running through the centre of Amsterdam. The average “appointment” lasts six minutes, 70% of Amsterdam’s sex workers are married or in committed relationships, There are around 3,000 male sex workers in the city. You might have heard about people being “barking mad”, well you certainly won’t find them at the Cat Cabinet (Kattenkabinet). Visitors get handsy in the Bouncy Castle of Breasts during the “Funland: Pleasures and Perils of the Erotic Fairground” traveling exhibition in New York City. Rijksmuseum. And with one of the richest collections of museums in the world, it’ll keep you occupied sun up to sun down. The museum has made the Guinness Book of World Records twice for all of its rabbit paraphernalia and has pulled in visitors from over 40 different countries. These cookies also store your location, including your latitude, longitude, and GeoIP region ID, which helps us show you locale-specific news and allows our Services to operate more efficiently. In 1910, William Shakespeare Berger bought his first dummy: Tommy Baloney. Rijksmuseum, museum of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam.

Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Due to reopen on 10 November 2020 following an extensive redevelopment, the Museum for the Mind is located in a former asylum and a home for lepers. Weirdest part: a virtual simulation of me as a sex worker. Built during medieval times, it’s now dedicated to showcasing the work of outsider artists and aims to shed light on how writers, artists, and scientists with mental illness create. Cancun's underwater museum is a collaboration between biologists and artist Jason deCaires Taylor, who created an “urban reef” that fosters diverse marine life. And if you’re a germophobe, this will be the most uncomfortable experience on the list. Hours, Tickets, LocationTime needed: 45-60 minutes. Odditorium in Dam Square is a “must see” when you visit Amsterdam! So if you’re deathly afraid of being on the spot, skip the Amsterdam Dungeon. All of which exposes the hidden world of microbes. If families were unable to pay a burial tax imposed by the town, the bodies were exhumed. Located in India’s buzzing capital, the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets details the history of hygiene and sanitation from 2500 B.C. Constructed in 2009 in the azure waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres, and Punta Nizuc, Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA) features over 500 life-size sculptures fixed to the sea floor.

Amsterdam’s museums are world-famous and even without having visited the city, most people know about the Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. In all 700,000 items were found, with 9,500 on display at the new Rokin metro station.

There’s even a large-scale fluorescent environment, where visitors can temporarily become a part of the art themselves. Wondering what to expect? Functional cookies record information about choices that you have made, and they also allow us to tailor the website to suit your needs. After 39 years studying medicine, dissection, and chemistry, Gunther von Hagens perfected plastination—a controversial process in which polymers are used to preserve human tissue. The museum also stages concerts throughout the year. If you’re interested in how the Dutch approach the inevitability of death, then the Dutch Funeral Museum is just the ticket. Experience the cramped confines for yourself and see where the families lived and worked. All rights reserved. Embassy of the Free Mind | Keizersgracht 123. Translations are in Dutch and English with plenty of information to keep you occupied. The library houses some 30,000 music reels and books and the collection includes gramophone records, phonograph rolls and LPs. Owned by an extremely optimistic geologist with a passion for rocks and naturally occurring fluorescent minerals, the museum displays a permanent collection of fluorescent minerals, fluorescent artwork from the 1950s and other glowing artefacts. Weirdest part: SFX almost on par with Disney World. Taking an elevator, you’ll start at the top of the building and work your way through these different areas.

Lot’s of history and highlights to see, plus you can bring your cannabis and cocktails onboard.

But did you know about the quirkier, smaller museums?