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You give us the skinny on ‘weird’ museums from around the globe, from converted soap factories to noodle collections, to the history of bad break-ups…

YOUR TIPS ON… QUIRKY MUSEUMS

From lauding the life of lavatories to rooms and rooms of, err, ramen, these are the world’s strangest museums, as chosen by you…

Dog Collar Museum Leeds Castle, Kent, UK

“I visited Leeds Castle with my family and couldn’t believe they had a museum dedicated to dog collars there! The last owner of the castle started it, as they had a love of dogs, and the collection now has over 100 collars from across the centuries.”

Matthew Gunn

Soap Museum Saida, Lebanon

“Set in a centuries-old building that was once a soap factory, the Soap Museum takes you through the history and methodology of soap-making, provides a pillar of stacked-up soap bars for you to take your picture next to, and at the end it has a brilliant video that shows you what the museum has just told you. There’s a decent shop, too. And no, you don’t have to be a soap obsessive to enjoy it.”

Owen Morton

Trickeye Museum Phuket, Thailand

“This museum is an undiscovered work of art in the middle of the city. You can take pictures having a coffee under the starry night of Van Gogh, saving the planet from an alien attack or being eaten by the Hulk! It’s exciting and fun from the second you enter.”

Deborah del Pozo Gómez

Hammer Museum Haines, Alaska, USA

“This is the funniest museum I can think of. There’s thousands of hammers of all kinds, used for various purposes. There’s even a special one used to clobber cattle.”

Deanna Swaney

Skagens Bamsemuseum Skagen, Denmark

This teddy bear museum, set in an old Skagen-style house and garden, displays all sorts of bears, from odd ones to those of historical value. It’s memorable, for sure.”

Roxana Veghinas The Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb, Croatia

“The museum displays objects – and the stories behind them – relating to broken relationships. There are some bizarre tales: an axe is displayed alongside the story that when the donor returned to her flat, where she had lived with the boyfriend she had just split up from, he had chopped up everything in the flat into tiny pieces with it.”

Marilyn Sparrow

Gulasch Museum Vienna, Austria

“The Gulasch Museum in Vienna is not strictly a museum but a restaurant serving hearty Austrian cuisine – think winter stews, dumplings and potatoes. It beats looking at ancient artefacts on a cold winter’s day.”

Helen Jackson The Cupnoodles Museum Osaka, Japan

“A museum devoted to instant noodles – I’ve never seen anything like it in my life!”

Prahsant Kumar

Museum of Death New Orleans, USA

“In a city obsessed by witchcraft, this is the perfect sideshow to a day exploring the French Quarter. Want to know about the most notorious serial killers that the USA has seen? It’s all here in the Museum of Death.”

Jonathan Hopps

Cats Museum Kotor, Montenegro

“When we visited Kotor, we came across the Cats Museum in a little courtyard. It’s filled with pictures and postcards of cats – there was even a scary-looking cat perched in the window dismembering a dead pigeon!”

Tracey Kinsella

The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets New Delhi, India

“Both wacky and fascinating! Find out about the history of toilets, different toilets from around the world and how to use the methane gas from toilets as a cooking fuel.”

Gill Dorey

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