Comments on: execreble exhibition http://answermethis.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/execreble-exhibition/ Helen Zaltzman & Olly Mann answer the world's questions Mon, 20 May 2013 07:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LeighAnne http://answermethis.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/execreble-exhibition/#comment-13941 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:49:18 +0000 http://answermethis.wordpress.com/?p=9111#comment-13941 In Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain (located not far from Salamanca), there’s a museum dedicated to ornate antique chamber pots. They have something like 1300 of them collected by one guy over the course of his life. I understood every word of every caption and still only narrowly avoided dying of boredom.

]]> By: Nick http://answermethis.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/execreble-exhibition/#comment-13847 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:01:20 +0000 http://answermethis.wordpress.com/?p=9111#comment-13847 There is a museum in Sidmouth that has a display that contains one brick.

One. Fucking. Brick.

I have no idea if the brick is important, I refused to stay in there long enough to find out.

]]> By: Alex http://answermethis.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/execreble-exhibition/#comment-13838 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://answermethis.wordpress.com/?p=9111#comment-13838 While not a museum per se, I will say one of the weirdest places I’ve ever visited (that is very museum-esque) is right here in my own backyard: The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin! The house itself isn’t really the attraction, although it’s quite unusual… it was built by a man called Alex Jordan in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright ***cough ripoff cough***. It’s built into a rock, literally, and the architecture is extraordinary. The decor is ridiculously dated, however, as it hasn’t been updated since the man died back in the late 80s, everything has a shag carpet sketchy/skeevy sort of feel to it…

But the collections. Oh, the collections. There’s dolls with dead staring eyes, carousel horses, fake crown jewels, turbines, fake fabrege eggs, mannequins, dollhouses, automatons, thimbles, musical instruments, calliopes, paperweights, books, mold, airplanes, gaspumps, signs, chairs, and junk, crap, shit, and more junk crap and shit. Everything there is a done to the absolute nth degree… overdone and overwrought, truly. The whole attraction has a sort of dank and delightfully creepy vibe to it.

I can’t possibly do it justice. Go to the site to check it out! You won’t be sorry. Well, you might. Just take solace in the fact that you don’t have to dust all that shit. http://www.thehouseontherock.com/

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