The Museum of Curiosities
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Monsieur Pompier's Museum of Curiosities.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined January 2012
Now also on Bluesky (content coming soon!). I will continue to post here as always as well.
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Disney technicians repairing an animatronic figure.
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Victorian Era Radiator with Bread warmer.
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800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skillful carpenter carved this gentleman high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant.
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Vintage photos of people dressed as mushrooms.
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Drink Ovaltine to wake up gay in the morning!
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Goldie Williams, a rebellious woman who was arrested for vagrancy. She refused to unfold her arms and stop making this face for her 1898 mugshot.
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A 400 year-old abandoned garden maze in Spain.
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Museum in Japan that showcases various naturally formed rocks with faces on them.
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Perfume bottle consisting of eight glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925).
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Glurpo, the world's only underwater clown, c.1960. Performed at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas.
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Victorian radiator with a built in bread warmer.
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1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet.
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Abandoned Film Theatre in Dresden Germany.
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A Roman “hologram” effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta.
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A ceramic bowl depicting a swarm of mice. From Peru, Nazca culture, 180 BCE-500 CE, now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Behind the scenes of the children's TV series The Banana Splits (1968).
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Gnome found in a coffin in Sweden back in 1866.
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A Girl with her toad enters a pet contest, Venice Beach, California, 1936.
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1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet.
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Late Victorian art pottery known as Martinware, which depicts a horrifying crab with a grotesque human face. Made by Robert Wallace Martin in June 1880, from salt-glazed stoneware. .
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Some centuries, it's really hard to get out of bed. (Abbey of Sainte Foy, circa 1050).
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Argentavis, the biggest known bird to ever exist.
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"This Russian family portrait was taken back in 1886. The father had an obsession with pool, and dressed his children like billiard balls."
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Miniature bat fan. On thin shaved wood. Circa 1900.
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A rock crystal reliquary in the shape of a fish with legs. Schnütgen Museum, Cologne.
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Behind the scenes of the children's TV series "The Banana Splits" (1968)
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Victorian radiator with a built in bread warmer.
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Self-defense glove for ladies (London, 1850).
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Spanish surrealist artist, Gervasio Gallardo (1934).
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Goldie Williams, a rebellious woman who was arrested for vagrancy. She refused to unfold her arms and stop making this face for her 1898 mugshot.
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Cutlery designed by Salvador Dali in 1957.
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Museum in Japan that showcases various naturally formed rocks with faces on them.
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People used to believe that cavities were caused by demons boring holes in teeth.
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In 1871, a woman from Quebec hired a hearse with the sole intention of riding around town smoking in the coffin-bed while enjoying the view.
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A 400 year-old abandoned garden maze in Spain.
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Casio EG-5 Cassette Player/Recorder Guitar.
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Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic 'A View to a Kill' in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming 'Legend' during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness.
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Small sculpture of death with a bow made in 1520 Germany.
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'Plague Arriving', by Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871-1960). It was painted in 1909.
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Borghesani designed (1969) robot mobile bar inspired by the lunar landing.
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Perfume bottle consisting of eight glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925).
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Department store wax mannequins melting during a heatwave in 1929.
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People used to believe that cavities were caused by demons boring holes in teeth.
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This steamer trunk from 1890 converted to a dresser so the traveler didn’t have to unpack.
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The Crooked House of Windsor, the oldest Teahouse in England -- original building constructed, 1592.
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Rare set of 16th century Italian notation knives with musical notes engraved on the blade, meant to be sung as grace before a meal..
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Soda cans produced between 1930s to 1970s.
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Tippi Hedren having her cigarette lit by a crow on the set of The Birds.
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(The Feast of) Samhain, 1951. British/Mexican surrealist artist, Leonora Carrington (1917-2011).
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Posing for a photo on the set of the film 'Godzilla' (1954).
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Art Nouveau storefront by Albert Pèpe (Douai,1906).
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A 18th century book containing tiny books on a pop-up shelf, made by a bookbinder in the Netherlands around 1757. The National Library of the Netherlands.
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“Fairy coffins” discovered on Arthur’s Seat, a hill above Edinburgh, in 1836.
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The Lava Lamp inventor with his wife in 1963.
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