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Re: Niche Museums

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Post by buildbot » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

arnorb wrote: post #26

I believe the Icelandic Phallological Museum fits the bill! https://www.phallus.is/

It's not a Niche Museum but the Reykjavik Art Museum & Reykjavík Art Museum Kjarvalsstaðir both are amazing and worth a visit too, neither are far away in Reykjavik from the Phallological Museum.

Reykjavik is quite nice to visit! It's similar to Ballard, WA, where we have a somewhat niche Nordic Heritage Museum that very nice as well.

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by mullen » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

The Toy Museum of Munich is pretty cool and it is near a major tourist site in Munich, Germany. My wife and I went in to kill an hour while we waited for others and it was really nice. Covers 4 centuries of toys and toy evolution.

https://www.spielzeugmuseummuenchen.de/en

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by t1234s » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

The UFO museum in Roswell NM should be added to their list.

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by schubart » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

Parasitological Museum in Meguro, Tokyo

https://www.kiseichu.org/e-top

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by ks2048 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 7:29 PM UTC

First one I clicked on was Reserva Cerro Ancón in Panama City (https://www.niche-museums.com/72)

Cool place, but hard to see how it's classified as a museum (park, trail, nature reserve).

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by santix » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

Museum of Brands in London

https://museumofbrands.com/

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by t0mpr1c3 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

I recommend the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia to the curious and strong of constitution. https://muttermuseum.org/

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by jzwinck » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 6:13 AM UTC

I recommend Japan as a country with many niche museums, here are two I enjoyed:

https://www.tdk.com/museum/en/

https://www.khi.co.jp/kawasakiworld/english/

They are museums run by companies about their own histories and industries. The TDK one was quite unexpected: it's basically a museum about very thin plastic.

Re: Niche Museums

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Post by infinitelatency » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #34

The Rosicrucian Egyptian museum is a pretty neat museum in San Jose. I remember going several times as a kid, really cool place with a remarkably large collection. Only relatively recently did I dig into who the heck the Rosicrucians are, and that's a wild deep-dive in of itself which probably should feature somewhat in the museum. Basically, in the early 17th century, a couple of essays were published describing thi…

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