From crocodile mummies to ancient complaints: 15 amazing - funny and touching museum exhibits (16 photos)

Museums store not only masterpieces of art and ancient artifacts.





Sometimes the exhibits are so strange that it seems as if they came here from another dimension. A 3,700-year-old complaint about a purchase, mummified crocodiles and other incredible finds can even make you doubt the reality of what you see.

1. The Last Luggage



The Museum of World War II in Gdansk has a poignant exhibit - rows of suitcases with names. Each of them once belonged to a person sent to a concentration camp. These yellowed things silently tell the stories of thousands of cut short lives.

2. Ancient Party Dice





The Gyeongju National Museum houses an unusual artifact — 8th-century dice with funny instructions: "Drink everything and dance" or "Sing a song." These finds prove that people have always loved cheerful feasts, and ancient Korean parties were no less exciting than modern ones.

3. Crocodile Mummies



Egyptian museums contain amazing exhibits - mummified crocodiles. These ancient reptiles were revered as the incarnation of the god Sebek, the lord of the waters and floods of the Nile. Carefully embalmed, they lay in the sands for thousands of years to tell us about the religious cults of a distant era.

4. Sandals from the Roman Empire



The Vindolanda fortress in northern England is home to an amazing find – leather sandals that are 1,800 years old. These shoes of Roman legionnaires and locals are perfectly preserved in the marshy soil, allowing us to literally touch the life of ancient Roman Britain.

5. A Living, Thousand-Year-Old Masterpiece



A unique specimen of Ficus Retusa Linn grows in the Italian Crespi Bonsai Museum — it is over 1000 years old. This miniature giant has survived the change of eras and dynasties, turning into a living symbol of patience and skill of gardeners.

6. Art at your fingertips



The Capitoline Museums in Rome house a unique collection of famous paintings carved in stone. These tactile copies allow blind people to “see” the masterpieces through touch, turning the painting into a three-dimensional story that can be felt with your hands.

7. Fused Fates



The famous Mutter Medical Museum in Pennsylvania has an unusual exhibit — the skeleton of Siamese twins. This anatomical artifact makes you think about the fragility of human life and the amazing features of our body.

8. The Oldest Chariot in the World



In the Armenian village of Lchashen, archaeologists have discovered an amazing artifact — an oak chariot that is more than four thousand years old. This find, made near Lake Sevan, is considered the oldest surviving wheeled transport in the world, opening new pages in the history of ancient civilizations' technologies.

9. Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk



In the coldest region there is a unique treasure trove of antiquity - the Mammoth Museum. Here, in the permafrost, the majestic giants that inhabited these lands tens of thousands of years ago are perfectly preserved. Visitors can see not only bones, but also unique exhibits with soft tissues, wool and even blood.

10. Life-Size Quetzalcoatlus at the Field Museum, Chicago



A massive replica of Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature ever to have ever lived, lets you imagine how these giant pterosaurs ruled the skies 70 million years ago.

11. Crystal Wonders of the Vienna Museum



The Natural History Museum in Vienna houses an amazing collection of delicate flowers made entirely of crystals. Formed over thousands of years, these sculptures combine the fragility of a bud with the strength of a stone, demonstrating the alchemy of the earth's interior.

12. Children's Museum of Indianapolis



The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is home to some unusual exhibits. This witty installation connects prehistoric giants with modern realities.

13. The Perfect Sphere



The Deutsches Museum in Munich is home to a unique exhibit — a silicon sphere, recognized as the most perfect man-made sphere on the planet.

14. The Oldest Customer Complaint



The British Museum holds a curious artifact — a clay tablet from Ancient Mesopotamia with text that today would be called a customer service complaint. Dated to the 18th century BC, it contains a complaint from the merchant Ea-Nasir about a poor-quality batch of copper — proof that procurement problems existed even in the time of Hammurabi.

15. Christopher Robin's Toys



The New York Public Library holds the very toys that inspired A.A. Milne to create the world-famous fairy tale. A shabby teddy bear, a tailless Eeyore, and a clumsy Tigger — these modest cuties have become literary legends.