www.zam-museum.de
Open 10am to 6pm daily, including public holidays
The Zentrum für Aussergewöhnliche Museen is a collection of "extraordinary" museums- basically, lots of rooms with collections of things like pedal cars or chamber pots. It’s kind of strange, but it can be interesting. If you want to get anything out of it, you should have a look at the website before you go, as the exhibits have almost no labels and what information that there is, is in German.
Downstairs:
Tretauto Museum (Pedal Car): This was pretty cool just to see all the little, old cars. Most are labeled with the country and year of the car. Sis Museum: This is j
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Open 10am to 6pm daily, including public holidays
The Zentrum für Aussergewöhnliche Museen is a collection of "extraordinary" museums- basically, lots of rooms with collections of things like pedal cars or chamber pots. It’s kind of strange, but it can be interesting. If you want to get anything out of it, you should have a look at the website before you go, as the exhibits have almost no labels and what information that there is, is in German.
Downstairs:
Tretauto Museum (Pedal Car):
This was pretty cool just to see all the little, old cars. Most are labeled with the country and year of the car.
Sis Museum:
This is just a collection of personal items from Elisabeth, Empress of Austria. It’s pretty cool to look at all the things (clothes, photos, and baby teeth), although, as I said, labels are in German.
Upstairs:
Parfumflakon Musem:
Apparently, this is Germany’s first perfume-flask museum, pretty much a room full of old perfume bottles. Very little information is provided, but it can be kind of neat looking at all the old bottles. Interesting side note: the bathroom is located here, and it stinks. I just thought it was kind of funny when I found it in the perfume museum of all places, as I had half-expected to find it in the Chamber Pot museum.
Osterhasen (Easter Bunny) Museum:
Apparently the Easter Bunny we all know and love has his roots in Germany. There are some notes on some figurines, but there is very little information, and again, it’s all in German. One thing I found especially interesting was a corner with a special exhibit of "misused" Easter Bunnies; that is, images and figurines in which the Easter Bunny is used to help promote German nationalistic ideas during the First and Second World Wars. Pretty neat.
Bourdalou Museum:
I think you have to know the story to appreciate this collection. Apparently, around 1700, there was a famous Jesuit Father at King Louis XIV’s court, and ladies wanted so much to hear his sermons and not miss a word by taking bathroom breaks that they started this habit of bringing little pots with them to relieve themselves during the sermon. You can read more about it on the website, but it’s some pretty crazy stuff and there are some bourdalous that are very intricately decorated and some that are incomprehensibly small.
Schutzengel (Guardian Angel) Museum: I didn’t really look in this one, but mostly I think it’s all things angel. So if you’re a big fan of angels, you might find it interesting.
Nachttopf (Chamber Pot) Museum:
The first museum of its kind in the world, it’s a pretty interesting thing to look at. It has all the different kinds of things people used to use as toilets. Quite fascinating. You can even buy your own antique chamber pot downstairs in the gift shop for a couple hundred Euros.
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