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40 Magnificent Museum Designs & Outrageous Museums

— March 6, 2009 — Art & Design
As schoolchildren, a trip to the museum meant a day out of the classroom. The exhibits didn't matter much, and the token scavenger hunt was a momentary thrill. As we transcend into adulthood, however, museums take on a different role.

As you'll see below, a museum catalogs oddities, like Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, or shows us how our bodies work, like Corpus in Europe. It also showcases insanely large collections of barf bags, artifacts from ex-lovers, toilet seats from museums, and geek watches.

A museum can also exemplify impressive architecture and drop-dead gorgeous interior design, as you'll see below.
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Ex Exhibits
Ex Exhibits
The Museum Of Broken Relationships Showcases Memorabilia From Old Romances
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Barf Bag Collectors
Barf Bag Collectors
Air Sickness Bag Museum
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MUSAC
MUSAC
The Museum of Contemporanean Art Castilla and Leon
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MOCAD
MOCAD
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Detroit
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Artifacts of Ex Lovers Exhibit
Artifacts of Ex Lovers Exhibit
Broken Heart Museum
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Museo Aero Solar
Museo Aero Solar
Plastic Bages Form Flying Museum
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Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum Is Craptacular!
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum Is Craptacular!
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Museum Hotels
Museum Hotels
21C
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Franchised Art Galleries?
Franchised Art Galleries?
Louvre Museum to Franchise in Abu Dhabi Amid French Protest
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Disappearing Buildings
Disappearing Buildings
The Nomadic Museum
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Sharp Architecture
Sharp Architecture
The New Denver of Museum of Art
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Underwater Museum in China
Underwater Museum in China
Shipwreck Could Have 80,000 Treasures
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Hog Heaven
Hog Heaven
Harley-Davidson Museum
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Toaster Museums + 10 Odd Toasters You Might Find There
Toaster Museums + 10 Odd Toasters You Might Find There
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Burnt Food Museums
Burnt Food Museums
Celebrating Really Bad Cooking
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Retro Breakfast Exhibits
Retro Breakfast Exhibits
The Online Sugar Frosted Cereal Museum
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Aurora Ice Museum Hotel, Alaska
Aurora Ice Museum Hotel, Alaska
Stay Cool All Year Round
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MOBA
MOBA
Museum of Bad Art for 'Art Too Bad to be Ignored'
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Wal-Mart Art Museum
Wal-Mart Art Museum
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
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Nestle Chocolate Museum
Nestle Chocolate Museum
Sweet Mexican Factory
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Sex In Design / Design In Sex
Sex In Design / Design In Sex
NYC Museum Exhibit
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Elegant Exotic Car Museums
Elegant Exotic Car Museums
Porsche Panache Set in New Stuttgart Showcase
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Green Museums
Green Museums
California Academy of Sciences (UPDATE)
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Toilet Art Museums
Toilet Art Museums
Website Features Commodes from Iconic Art Galleries
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Otherworldly Art Museums
Otherworldly Art Museums
Waterflux Alpine Ice Research Station Looks Extraterrestrial
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Multi-Cultural Projects in Dubai
Multi-Cultural Projects in Dubai
Museum of Middle East Modern Art
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Virtual Shoe Museum
Virtual Shoe Museum
Lisa Snook's Beautiful, Bizarre Footwear
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Mafia Museum
Mafia Museum
Las Vegas Honors Founding Fathers With FBI's Help
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Historical Footwear Exhibits
Historical Footwear Exhibits
The Bata Shoe Museum
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Street Art Museums
Street Art Museums
The Ephemeral Museum in Lisbon
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Eco Museums
Eco Museums
San Francisco's Academy of Sciences
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Faking Intimate History
Faking Intimate History
Museum of Communism Showcases Stalin & Lenin Intimacy
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Morally Questionable Virtual Curation
Morally Questionable Virtual Curation
The Museum of Accidents
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Geeky Vintage Collections
Geeky Vintage Collections
The 'Nerd Watch Museum' For Appreciators of Old-School
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Interactive Human Body Museum
Interactive Human Body Museum
Corpus
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Virtual Shoe Museum II
Virtual Shoe Museum II
Whacked Concept Shoes
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Constantly Changing Museum Hotels
Constantly Changing Museum Hotels
The Museumotel Utopia
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Museums for Rescued Letters
Museums for Rescued Letters
Berlin's Buchstabenmuseum is a Typographer's Dream
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Latticed Public Architecture
Latticed Public Architecture
Redesigned Queens Museum of Art Boasts Web-Like Structure
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Showcasing Medical Oddities
Showcasing Medical Oddities
The Mutter Museum
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