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100 1 $aRubin, Saul,$d1957-
245 10 $aOffbeat museums :$ba guided tour of America's weirdest and wackiest museums /$cSaul Rubin.
250 $a1st Black Dog & Leventhal ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBlack Dog & Leventhal :$bDistributed by Workman Pub. Co.,$c2002.
300 $a237 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Santa Monica, CA : Santa Monica Press, c1997.
500 $aOriginally titled: Offbeat museums : the collections and curators of America's most unusual museums.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- International Banana Club and Museum -- The Mütter Museum -- The Museum of Menstruation -- The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices -- Barney Smith Toilet Seat Art Museum -- The National Atomic Museum -- The Shoe Museum -- Hamburger Hall of Fame -- Kansas Barbed Wire Museum -- New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum -- The Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry -- Nikola Tesla Museum of Science and Industry -- Grandpa Moses' Travelling Museum -- The Children's Garbage Museum of Southwest Connecticut -- National Lighter Museum -- International Museum of Surgical Science -- The Barnum Museum -- Leila's Hair Museum -- The National Farm Toy Museum -- Houdini Historical Center -- Havre de Grace Decoy Museum -- The Museum of Death -- The Museum of Jurassic Technology -- Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum -- The Liberace Museum -- The National Cryptologic Museum -- The U.S. Border Patrol Museum -- The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum -- The Shrine to Music Museum -- Tragedy in U.S. History Museum -- Spinning Top Exploratory Museum -- American Sanitary Plumbing Museum -- Mister Ed's Elephant Museum -- Warther Carvings -- The Great Blacks in Wax Museum -- National Museum of Dentistry -- American International Rattlesnake Museum -- Nut Museum -- American Funeral Service Museum -- Don Brown Rosary Collection -- The Time Museum -- Cockroach Hall of Fame -- The UFO Enigma Museum and the International UFO Museum & Research Center -- Soukup & Thomas International Balloon and Airship Museum -- Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue -- Marvin Johnson's Gourd Museum -- The Country Doctor Museum -- The Mini Cake Museum -- Exotic World/Burlesque Hall of Fame -- Glore Psychiatric Museum -- Appendix: Offbeat Museums by State.
520 $aCollects details of some of the strangest museums and exhibits around the United States, providing a guided tour of places such as the Cockroach Hall of Fame, Spinning Top Exploratory Museum, and the Mini Cake Museum.
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700 1 $aRubin, Saul,$d1957-$tOffbeat museums : the collections and curators of America's most unusual museums.
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