Awe, excitement and adrenaline, every collector feels it when he finds something new, rare and outstanding, what can be added to his exclusive collection. People collect everything from the traditional postage stamps and postcards to porcelain dollies, elephants and celebrities’ underwear. When the search of original things ceases to bring the excitement into life, some collectors donate part of their collections to museums. Some found museums by themselves and show their unique collections to the public. Major tourist columnist «Tourism Review» has published a list of the most original museums in the world.
According to analysts Canadian «Shoe Museum» in Toronto is one of the most original museum is the world. The museum is a real dream of a shoe fetishist that has a unique collection of more than 10 000 pairs of shoes. Here you can find everything from Egyptian sandals made from papyrus to the moccasins of Elvis Presley. The museum offers the public an opportunity to see the path of development of technologies of the production of shoes for 4 500 years.
While most of the world's museums and galleries show to the visitors magnificent works of Picasso, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Michelangelo and Da Vinci, «Foul Art Museum», holding 2nd place in the ranking of the most original museums, prefers to exhibit the worst examples of painting. The museum describes itself as a «private organization that specializes in collecting, storing, exhibiting and glorification of foul art, in all its forms and in all its magnificence». At this moment museum collection has more than 250 paintings of really bad quality.
Date: 10/06/2009
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