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	AMERICAN DIME MUSEUM (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The world's only recreation of a 19th century museum collection of oddities, anomalies,and peculiarities, both man-made and tricks of nature, including our famous Peruvian Amazon and our terrifying Giant Bat and of course our 20th century side show is NOW OPEN for your group tours and private parties.
		On December 31st, The American Dime Museum closed indefinitely.
		While the Museum has remained "Baltimore's Best Non-Art Museum" (City Paper 2000-2005), entertaining and educating thousands of enthusiastic visitors, our inability to find any funding for the most necessary operating expenses is forcing our closure.
	www.dimemuseum.net.cob-web.org:8888 /news_events.htm (281 words)

	AMERICAN DIME MUSEUM
		These personal collections were the spiritual ancestors of the ultimate collections: the dime museums.
		The dime museums made famous by Barnum and the Peale family, with their fame in exhibiting the "wonders of nature, the works of man".
		Even after the Second World War, when the writing was on the wall for the decline of the shows, there were still grand and glorious days for the back end, and there were still classic shows on the road into the '60s and early '70s.
	www.dimemuseum.net /history.htm (366 words)

	Dime Museums, Anatomical Museums....
		The Anatomical Museum of the 1800's typically displayed wax models, specimens in jars, freaks of nature (both human and animal), and ethnological curiosities.
		Both as advertisements for the services of the doctors who normally managed them, and as entertainment for the morbidly curious, they were without parallel-- allowing legitimate physicians, quacks, and those with revoked medical licenses to practice-- and sometimes prey-- on the uneducated.
		The Anatomical Museum usually excluded women and children, adding to the privacy required by those seeking displays which showcased the symptoms (and cures) for venereal diseases and other ailments.
	www.showhistory.com /anatomical.html (194 words)

	Renaissance bling \| MetaFilter (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CABINETS OF WONDER - The English translation of kunstkammer and wunderkammer, the cabinets of curiosities and wonders that evolved into the dime museums of the 19th Century.
		These precursors of the museum were developments of the Renaissance.
		The museum, on the other hand, was a creation of the Enlightenment.
	www.metafilter.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mefi/56460 (869 words)

	Museums
		Museum of Washington Jewish history from the mid-19th century to the present day, housed in an 1876 historic synagogue, the first built in Washington, located at 701 3rd Street NW.
		Historic house museum and garden in Georgetown; one of the oldest houses in DC.
		Museum whose aim is to "capture and convey to the fun-oriented public the spirit and history behind the creation and collection of squished pennies throughout the world." Open by appointment only.
	www.washingtonart.com /beltway/museumlinks.html (3655 words)

	Museums of Interesting Things: Interesting Thing of the Day
		I’ve been to dozens, maybe hundreds, of museums in my life, ranging from massive institutions such as the Louvre and the British Museum to the tiny Voodoo Museum in New Orleans and San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique, a collection of mechanical games and arcade amusements from the early 20th century.
		Part of the very appeal of dime museums was that visitors never quite knew how seriously to take any of it: if the things were real, they were impressive; if they were fake, they were still impressive, but for a different reason.
		Museums may ask visitors to consider becoming members, paying an annual fee in exchange for unlimited admission and other special benefits.
	itotd.com /articles/202/museums-of-interesting-things (1537 words)

	Dime Museums, Anatomical Museums.... (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dime Museums showcased live human entertainment as well, and in their later phases (1910's-1950's) transformed themselves into sideshows set up in temporary store-fronts in many downtown areas of America.
		Though simply called Museums in their early form, the idea of a collection of objects which the public would pay to see spread quickly in early 19th Century America.
		Almost as old a form was the Anatomical Museum-- ostensibly learning exhibits for physicians and scientists-- they typically contained wax models, and specimens in jars, ultimately catering to the morbidly curious generally public, or those looking for symptomatic cures for their own undiagnosed diseases.
	www.showhistory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /dimemuseums.html (393 words)

	AMERICAN DIME MUSEUM
		Follow the history of the dime museums – those 19th century collections of the world’s strangest flotsam and jetsam – and their evolution into the astounding traveling sideshows of yesteryear!
		Seen were the actual objects – both oddities of nature and works of man, the memorabilia of the exotic and novelty acts of old, and the most colorful advertising art of all time – all in a life-like historical setting!
		The dime museum exhibition included numerous recreations, from Fiji mermaids to shrunken heads, as well as original artifacts, including one of the only surviving Nelson Supply Co. giantess mummies.
	www.dimemuseum.net /about.htm (178 words)

	Amazon.com: Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America: The Dime Museum in America: Books: Andrea Stulman Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weird and Wonderful chronicles the evolution of the dime museum from its eighteenth-century inception as a "cabinet of curiosities" to its death at the hands of new amusement technologies in the early twentieth century.
		Tracing the scattered legacy of the dime museum from vaudeville theater to Ripley's museum to the talk show spectacles of today, Dennett makes a significant contribution to the history of American popular entertainment.
		Her discussions of the economics of running a dime museum are especially interesting.
	www.amazon.com /Weird-Wonderful-Dime-Museum-America/dp/0814718868 (1382 words)

	Freakatorium ~ El Museo Loco
		By 1865, the American Museum was one of the few locations in New York where all visitors who could pay the modest admission fee could gather under the same roof, regardless of class, gender or ethnic background.
		Barnum's Museum was twice lost to fire, and by the end of the 19th century, dozens of smaller museums offering a similar integration of entertainment and education had taken its place.
		Today, the Freakatorium is New York's only existing dime museum, operating in the very neighborhood where many of its predecessors once stood.
	www.freakatorium.com /history.html (500 words)

	Zymoglyphic links - Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A museum of enigmatic exhibits devoted to the preservation of knowledge that would otherwise be lost.
		In 19th century America, the "wonder" part of museums became more associated with circus sideshows and "dime museums" such as P.T. Barnum's.
		This museum is dedicated to preserving their memory.
	www.zymoglyphic.org /links/museums.html (657 words)

	Maryland Science Center: Plan Your Visit: Other Attractions
		The museum highlights the history and accomplishments of Maryland's African American community and features state-of-the-art galleries with interactive learning centers, thought-provoking permanent and temporary displays, an oral history recording studio, a museum shop, café and rooftop terrace.
		The state's largest museum collection (over 6 million objects) is shared with the public through permanent and changing exhibitions and a research library.
		The newly renovated Walters is a world-class museum whose collections span fifty-five centuries of art-from Egyptian artifacts to Medieval armor, Renaissance paintings, and Fabergé eggs.
	www.marylandsciencecenter.org /plan/attractions.html (1072 words)

	Sideshow World, Sideshow History, Sideshow Photos, Sideshow News, Sideshow Links, Sideshow Performers from around the ...
		We feature here Information, about Modern and Historic Dime Museums, Cabinets of Curiosities, Collections of the Strange and Unusual.
		Front and Back cover of Haps and Mishaps of P. Josiah and his Bride elect at the one Dime Museum 9th and Arch Sts.
		Circa 1870s WOODS MUSEUM, 9th and ARCH STS., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Pictures Wood's Dime Museum where a very popular in Victorian times.
	www.sideshowworld.com /DM&CC.html (255 words)

	Shocked and Amazed - On and Off the Midway
		The Showbar is one of a string of themed watering holes, including the Argonaut (nautical), the Beehive (Mexican), and the Red and the Black (Cajun), wedged between check-cashing spots and liquor stores.
		The museum hopes to succeed where the Dime failed by adding alcohol to oddity.
		This is the only book to capture the thrills, excitement and mystery of the traditional back end shows of the carnival, the dime museums of a century ago, the roadside museums of today, and the human marvel shows of tomorrow.
	www.atomicbooks.com /43/shocked/index.html (1863 words)

	Freakatorium ~ El Museo Loco (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Freakatorium, El Museo Loco, is dedicated to the history and preservation of the dime museum, one of America's oldest and most distinctive forms of entertainment.
		With a rotating collection of over 1,000 artifacts and curiosities, the Freakatorium offers contemporary visitors a unique educational experience in an environment of wonder.
		Many of the objects at the Freakatorium are available for loan to museums, photographers, filmmakers and event planners.
	www.freakatorium.com.cob-web.org:8888 (147 words)

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