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Article: An Art Tour of the Tacky : Leave the Louvre behind, avoid the masses at the Met. Here's our guide to some truly weird museums. See New Jersey trash, Swiss frogs and more.
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- Newsweek International
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- October 15, 2001
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Who says a museum has to be about art? With worldwide museum attendance higher in the past decade than ever, curators are realizing they don't need a Picasso to bring in the crowds. Mummies, or shoes--or even bananas--will work just as well. Disappointed in the "Mona Lisa"? Sample the Jell-O Museum in Le Roy, New York, or leap to the Frog Museum outside Basel, Switzerland. Worcester, Massachusetts, is home to a plumbing museum and Munich displays potatoes. Art snobs who denounce it all as "rubbish" would do well to visit the Trash exhibit in Warren County, New Jersey--anyway, they often say the same about modern art. Wacky museums appeal because they "present the world ...