Museum Finds

I've always loved visiting museums! I also love to find online museums and virtual tours. Here are some of my favourites, both real and virtual.

  Manchester Museum Jars   Manchester Museum Slides   Manchester Museum Bottles   Manchester Museum slides   Manchester Museum Butterflies   Salford Museum box of tiny things   Wellingborough obstetric items   Manchester Museum   Oxford Jars

Online Museums
Museum of Failure Innovation needs failure. All progress is built on learning from past failures and mistakes.

Condiment Packet Archive A historical archive of flexible portion control sauce packet ephemera.

Gremlins Museum The largest collection of original gremlins movie props in the world

Labyrinthos Labyrinthos provides a resource for the study of mazes and labyrinths.

Mobile Phone Museum A museum dedicated to the history and evolution of mobile phones.

Horg This site contains several years of research in the classification of occlupanids. These small objects are everywhere, dotting supermarket aisles and sidewalks with an impressive array of form and color

Museum of Bad Art A museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.

Plug Socket Museum A museum dedicated to the history and evolution of electrical plugs and sockets.

Handheld Games Museum A museum dedicated to the history and evolution of handheld video games.

Obsolete Media Museum A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage.

Mobile Toy Museum Online museum of vintage battery-operated toys.

Virtual Museum Tours

The National Library of Wales Online exhibitions including the Mabinogion.

Smithsonian Natural History Virtual Tour

The Louvre Virtual gallery tours

The Vatican Virtual gallery tours (I actually visited the vatican on a school trip, was in fact incredible!)

Google (boo hissss) Arts and Culture A reluctant addition but this a good gallery

British Museum from home

Guggenheim

Unesco I appreciate the idea of this museum, but it's a bit glitchy in practice.

The Victoria and Albert MuseumCostume collections and interesting items

My favourite Real World Museums

Manchester Museum

Salford Museum

Natural History Museum, London

Oxford Natural History Museum, Oxford

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford