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[amalthya]

Via boingboing

American Dime Museum closes, auctions oddities
Baltimore's American Dime Museum, a wunderkammer in the tradition of 19th century cabinets of curiosity, is closing its doors. A public auction (also through eBay Live) for the oddities, gaffs, taxidermy, bizarre art, and sideshow artifacts will take place on Monday, February 26, at 5pm through Richard Opfer Auctioneers. The lots, browseable here, are incredible. Sadly, the museum is closing due to financial hardship. (For an excellent history of dime museums, I highly recommend the book Weird And Wonderful: The Museum In America by Andrea Stulman Dennett.)

Check it out! :)

Here's the original Baltimore Sun article

Comments

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

Wait- whut? I thought they closed years ago?!? I spent a fucking afternoon and a half looking for the place about two or three years ago, only to have a local tell me it had closed. I got to see a parade though.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

Parades are nice, but locals tend to be useless.

[satchmojuju.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I went 2 years ago!

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous! What's the best thing you saw there?