We round up the UKs oddest museums... from poo to pencils

May 09, 2024

NO, it’s not a faeces-tious request – the National POO Museum on the Isle of Wight really is asking for stars to donate their stools.

Presumably it wants celebrities whose careers have not gone down the pan.

It might seem like a cack idea for a museum, but there are more contenders for the world’s oddest.

GRAEME CULLIFORD rounds them up . . .

Marshmallows

BIG softies who are off to the World Cup in Russia might want to toast the Marshmallow Museum in Kolomna

SPORTS fans will enjoy a drive to the Golf Ball Museum in Germany to see what they have putt on display.

SOME said it was a potty idea, but the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New Delhi gets loads of visits.

FORTUNATELY you can walk in the door of the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum – you don’t need wire cutters.

THE key to telling your deadbolt from your lever handle is found at the Willenhall Lock Museum in the Midlands.

GO walkies around the Dog Collar Museum at Leeds Castle, Kent, to see a “fascinating collection of canine neckwear.

FLEA fans will be itching to visit the Central Slovenian Scientific Collection of Siphonaptera.

TOURISTS in the Lake District can escape the rain by sharpening their knowledge in the Pencil Museum in Keswick.

THE UK is at the cutting-edge of lawnmower museums boasting two, one in Cornwall and another in Southport.

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