Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can’t or Won’t Show You

This fascinating book by Harriet Baskas is a perfect gift for the WU-vie in your life. Full of rare info about the bizarre objects--such as the Soap Man Mummy pictured here--which are stashed in museum back rooms, it offers hours of fun and amazement.

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Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 15, 2013
Category: Museums | Weird Studies and Guides

Comments

Gross! Why'd they dig him up in the first place to even find out he turned to soap?

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/15/13 at 04:25 PM

I am going to start a company that only mummifies and preserves your genitals... I think there would be a market for that !

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 12/15/13 at 05:48 PM

I can envision it, BD, FOREVER DICKS.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/16/13 at 01:39 AM

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