International Museum Day: Check out the world’s most bizarre and record-breaking museums!
18 May is International Museum Day, and we know museums may seem boring sometimes, but they can also be SUPER fun and interesting!
Don’t believe us? 🤔
Check out these record-breaking museums…
Oldest museum
The Royal Armouries, sitting within the Tower of London (UK) is the world’s oldest museum – open since 1660!
That’s over 350 years. 😧
The museum houses a cool collection of arms and armour.
Poozeum
The owner of the world’s largest collection of coprolites (= fossilized poo) has quit his job to make his dream come true by opening his very own... poo museum. 💩
Yes, you read that correctly!
George Frandsen opened the amazing Poozeum in Williams, Arizona, where visitors can see his entire record-breaking collection, which even includes dinosaur poo. 🦕
First videogame museum
The world’s first permanent videogame museum is Computerspielemuseum Berlin in Germany.
Home to around 37,000 different items, including historical arcade games and consoles, it is every true gamer’s dream!
LEGO museum
Miloš Křeček from Czechia owns the world’s largest collection of LEGO® sets with 6,005 sets! 🤩
It is displayed in the Museum of Bricks, which includes a play corner and a generously equipped shop, where one can find even the most rare LEGO® sets that are not sold anywhere else in the world. 😮
Would you visit the Museum of Bricks?
Largest dinosaur museum
And if you’re a dinosaur fan, you should head to the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, situated in Linyi, Pingyi County, Shandong Province, China…
There, you can see more specimens and ancient fossils than anywhere else in the world!
Star Wars museum
The world’s largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia is on display in its very own dedicated museum – Rancho Obi-Wan in Petaluma, California, USA.
Superfan Steve Sansweet (USA) has collected over 500,000 UNIQUE ITEMS dedicated to Star Wars!
Cars museum
Check out the world’s most bizarre museum with cars shaped like food, shoes, balls and more!
Sudhakar Kanyaboyina owns the largest collection of wacky vehicles in a museum. 🚗
He’s got about 60 cool cars like these ones in the picture!
Which one is your favourite?
Museum megafan
Ben Melham from UK holds the record for most museums visited in 24 hours after visiting 42 of London’s amazing museums!
He’s a big lover of museums and hoped to encourage more people to visit by breaking the record.
And what’s even more impressive, is that he is now working towards breaking the record for the most museums visited in 1 year. 🤓