The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces

The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces

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Two hours northwest of Tokyo in Chichibu, there is a museum of rocks called Chinsekikan where you won’t learn a thing about geology. However, you’ll do spend a few delightful hours marveling at strange exhibits such as the Elvis Presley rock, the Boris Yeltsin rock, the Jesus rock, the Nemo rock and the Donkey Kong rock.

Chinsekikan, which means “hall of curious rocks”, features over 1700 specimens. About 900 of them resemble human faces. These unaltered rocks naturally resemble celebrities, religious figures, movie characters, and more.

The museum was started by avid collector, Shozo Hayama, who spent 50 years collecting naturally eroded rocks that looked like faces. Mr. Hayama passed away in 2010, and the museum is now run by his wife





Chorus rock



Elvis Presley rock.



Nemo rock





Jesus rock













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Naples’ Secret Museum of Erotic Art

Naples’ Secret Museum of Erotic Art

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When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were unearthed from under volcanic ash at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, in the mid-18th century, the materials that emerged from the digs brought to light a certain aspect of the ancient world that caused great deal of embarrassment —the cities’ fascination with erotica. This was not the odd nude sculpture, but phallic shaped oils lamps and items of jewelry, frescoes of couples engaging in sex, scenes of fornications, and the most scandalous of them all —a statue depicting the half-man, half-goat Greek god Pan penetrating a female goat.

Today, it is well known that the ancient Romans had a very liberal view on sexuality, and that Pompeii boasted a large sex industry with dozens of brothels whose walls were adorned with erotic frescoes. Artistic depiction of sex was also found on the walls of bedrooms in private villas. Phallic-shaped amulets hung from the neck of Pompeii residents to ward of evil spirits, and an assortment of sex-themed artworks embellished every home.



The candid display of sexually explicit materials caused such great embarrassment and consternation among the 18th century public, that King Charles III of Bourbon ordered the obscene antiquities to be locked away in a secret cabinet, away from public view.

The secret cabinet or “gabinetto segreto” was originally located at Museum Herculanense in Portici, and only those with express written permission from the King were allowed to view it. But the censorship only fueled the desire to see the erotic art. Illustrations of the frescoes and copies of the banned exhibits were clandestinely reproduced and circulated among the French elites.

After the transfer of the museum from Portici to what is today the Naples National Archaeological Museum, a short period followed during which the collection could be seen without special restrictions, until King Francis I of Naples paid a visit in 1819 with his wife and daughter. The embarrassed king hastily ushered away his wife and daughter and ordered the museum to lock away the collection inside a special chamber, where only gentleman of “mature age and respected morals” could get access to. Women and children were barred from entering.

For the next two hundred years, the Secret Museum remained mostly closed, opening briefly for only a few number of times. When it opened during the 1960s, the restrictions were still in place. Finally in 2000, the collection was brought out and made publicly available for both men and women.









 

Sources: www.naplesldm.com / Wikipedia / holeinthedonut.com / Feast on History

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The Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk

The Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk

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AK-47, the notorious assault rifle, has a museum in its honor - the Kalashnikov Museum also called the AK-47 museum. The museum was opened on November 4, 2004, in Izhevsk, a city in the Ural Mountains of Russia. The museum chronicles the biography of General Kalashnikov – the creator of the rifle - as well as documents the invention of the AK-47. The museum attracts some 10,000 visitors each month.



The Kalashnikov Museum museum serves as Russia's monument to this world-renowned infantry weapon. It presents the guns and their history with civic pride and a revived sense of national confidence. The exhibitions, ranging from static displays of weapons to plasma-screen video presentations showing the guns' use in recent decades, reflect a laborer's affection for what has long flowed from nearby foundries and assembly lines. Much of the material is also viewed through the life of Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the man credited with designing the weapon in secret trials in 1947, and who still lives a few blocks away.

Nadezhda Vechtomova, the museum director stated in an interview that the purpose of the museum is to honor the ingenuity of the inventor and the hard work of the employees and to "separate the weapon as a weapon of murder from the people who are producing it and to tell its history in our country."













Sub-machine guns Bizon-2 (with a screw shop for 66 rounds 9-mm PM) and "Knight CH" (under the NATO caliber - 9 mm Parabellum)



Aircraft gun GSH-6-23 weighs only 76 kg and produces lead at a rate of 12,000 rounds per minute.



Self-loading sniper rifle Dragunov with a folding butt SIDS











Top - AK -108 and Automatic Nikonov AN-94. On the bottom shelf - new sniper rifle SV-98





[via Wikipedia, Livejournal]

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30 Museum Snapchats That’ll Make Art History Fun Again

30 Museum Snapchats That’ll Make Art History Fun Again

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Museums can be awesome. But let's face it, some of them can also be pretty dull. Which is why it's not surprising that some people get a little bored of them. After all, how many busts do you need to see (no jokes) before they all start to look the same? And frescoes are all well and good, but you can only see so many of them before neck cramp starts to set in.

But museums don't have to be boring. Especially if you have Snapchat. Just take a look at these hilarious pictures compiled by us to see what we mean. Don't forget to vote for the funniest!

When You Realize It's Only Tuesday

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Charlie Chapin’s Museum in Switzerland

Charlie Chapin’s Museum in Switzerland

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Famous Grévin Museum in Paris, in behind an uncommon museum in Switzerland. A path to the effigy of the legend Charlie Chaplin, located in the last house where he lived, called Chaplin’s World, that extends on 3000m2 on the edges of Lake Geneva. During 16 years, architect Philippe Meylan and museographer Yves Durand got the idea of a museum paying tribute to the man. The visitor is immersed in his leaving room, his studios, on film sets. Photographer Marc Ducrest immortalized this out-of-time place.

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Someone Put Glasses On Museum Floor And Visitors Thought It Was Art

Someone Put Glasses On Museum Floor And Visitors Thought It Was Art

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Some teens from San Francisco caused quite a spectacle (sorry) when they placed a pair of glasses on the floor of an art museum recently. Unsure what to make of it, bemused visitors did the only thing they could think of – they thought it was a piece of art and starting taking photographs of them.

The pranksters – Twitter users @TJCruda and @k_vinnn – decided to pull the stunt after being left unimpressed by the art on offer at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. And within minutes of placing the glasses on the floor, a crowd of onlookers had gathered to ponder the metaphysical meaning of this piece of modern “art”. One of the teens, 17-year-old T.J. Khayatan, documented the public’s response and later uploaded pictures of the hilarious experiment to Twitter. Needless to say, they soon went viral and have since been shared over 40,000 times.

It might not have been art, but the prank was still priceless.

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