Here is a new Museum for you, if you ever happen to visit a tiny corner in India. My friend built it with the help of the Japanese Government and funding. I was lucky to have visited it just before it was inaugurated, took some interesting pictures.

Imphal Peace Museum - https://goo.gl/maps/bXs5PU7tvJE3JukA6

Photos - https://photos.app.goo.gl/8SRV9EY6xCRvumzs5

That's a perfect example - thanks very much for the recommendation. I've added it to my want-to-go map!

You are on to something! I do this too.

Here's what comes to mind...

* Mutter Museum in Philly (http://muttermuseum.org/) Awesome victorian medical curiosities

* Museum of Questionable medical devices in St Paul (http://www.museumofquackery.com/). Exactly what the name implies. Really interesting for skeptics.

* Wagner Free Institute (http://www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org/), in Philly. This is victorian-era science museum focusing on natural history. Interesting selection of specimens and a magnificently preserved victorian lecture hall.

* Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto (http://batashoemuseum.ca/). Shoes are actually interesting in historical context!

* Johnstown Flood Museum (https://www.jaha.org/attractions/johnstown-flood-museum/) This is in western PA, about 1.5 hours east of Pittsburgh. Dedicated mostly to the flood of 1889 which shaped the history of this town, as well as the flood of 1977.

* National Electronics Museum (https://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/) This is a short distance from the BWI airport.

Never heard of the National Electronics Museum but I am from the area, I will check that out!

The Cryptography Museum nearby is also great.

Those are excellent, thank you.

I second this. Just about any subject matter is interesting if presented by someone who cares deeply about it.

That being said, I believe it is fair to say that I had a better experience than wife+kids at two of my favourite niche museums - the Grimeton spark gap transmitter in South Sweden and, all-time favourite - the museum of submarine cable in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.

Everybody loved the Ramones museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, though.

That museum in Porthcurno is SO INTERESTING. History and hands-on demos and then bam! here's how the big boys did it during the war. Industrially. In a cave. Very neat.

Is that at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station on Google Maps? https://goo.gl/maps/wfGRv7QfNtTY33iz7

That it is. Most impressive site, and if you have the faintest interest in communications and technology, you can easily spend hours there. If you're adventurous and there at the right time, you may even get to climb the masts.

If you find yourself in Bellingham, WA, Sparks Museum of Electrical Invention is a fun little museum to spend a few hours wandering.

https://www.sparkmuseum.org/

It definitely is. They have a theramin, and give demos using a Faraday cage and Tesla coil

Here's two more for you

1. The American Sign Museum - https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ - Cincinnati, OH. Dedicated to preserving neon signs from across America 2. The International Museum of Surgical Science - https://imss.org/ - Chicago, IL.

If you are in Las Vegas, there is a neon sign museum that is fantastic.

Also the pinball hall! So cheap, and functional.

I love Neon stuff! I've got one Neon thing on there at the moment, definitely keen on visiting more. https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/search?q=neon

Here's a tiny perfume museum in Berkeley!

https://www.aftelier.com/Articles.asp?ID=256

Whoa. What a cool idea. For some reason i just think i need to maximize what i see and shoot for the biggest museum i can find. There are at least 25 smaller museums within 30 minutes of where i am. I’m stoked!

I work in the tourism industry and I think you are onto something here.

Have you considered adding a map of all the museums to your site? I don't want to share my location and I don't necessarily want to look for museums in my present location, but I would love to see what is cataloged and look for museums near future travel destinations.

A map is on the todo list: https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/13

For the moment there's an undocumented map you can view here (using my datasette-cluster-map plugin) https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/museums