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Cancun Underwater
Museum, Cancun,
Mexico
There are interactive museums, and
then there’s Cancun Underwater
Museum—an art exhibit where you’ll
have to strap on scuba gear to
appreciate. This museum has a total
of 500 sculptures with three different
galleries submerged between three
and six meters. Not one for deep-sea
exploration? Shallow areas also allow
snorkelling and viewing from a glass
bottom boat. Each of the life-size
sculptures is made of pH-neutral clay
to promote marine growth, which
means that one day there’ll be an
ecosystem of creatures enjoying the
art as much as you are.
Source: www.hurriyetdailynews.com
Currywurst Museum,
Berlin, Germany
You can’t take a trip to Berlin without having a nibble
on the city’s favourite snack, the currywurst. Germans
consume over 800 million of these hot pork sausages
drenched in curried ketchup per year, which certainly
seems like enough to warrant a museum. At the
Currywurst Museum, you can learn about the snack’s
history, listen to the sound of a currywurst cooking and
even partake in a photo shoot as the owner of your
very own curry cart. And of course, you’ll have to try a
currywurst before you go.
Source: www.theexhibitionlist.wordpress.com
Museum of Enduring Beauty,
Malacca, Malaysia
A rose is a rose, but beauty? That’s culturally defined. The
Museum of Enduring Beauty in Malacca exhibits tools and
clothing—much of it quite grotesque—utilised by various
cultures in their pursuit of the ideal. From shoe binding
and neck-elongation to tattooing, piercing and headmoulding, these often extreme methods might seem
horrific—but who’s to say that plastic surgery might not
make a good addition to the next exhibit?
Source: www.wheresthegos.com
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