Useless Information on Museums And Libraries
Wonalancet, New Hampshire, boasts the world's only Antarctic dog museum, the Byrd Antarctic Dog Memorial Museum.
The work of an artist cannot be exhibited in the Louvre until he has been dead for at least sixty years. The only exception ever made to this rule was Georges Braque.
James Smithson, English scientist and founder of the Smithsonian Institution, never once set foot in America. The institution was established in 1846 with funds from his estate which he left for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”
The Library of Congress has 327 miles of bookshelves.
Old Lyme, Connecticut has the world's only museum dedicated to nuts. The world's largest nutcracker, 8 feet long, hangs outside on a tree.
The Smithsonian Institution has over 30 million fossils in its paleontology collection and more than 24 million insect specimens.