Just as I was about to head out the door of the tourist-filled St. George’s Basilica in the Prague Castle (Pražský hrad), I found myself face to face with a skull and pleasingly arranged assort...
On offer today we have a short personal interlude - last month D and I were asked to curate an installation of our art and objects from our personal collection for The Widow’s Watch, an art sal...
Dear readers, this absence of late is unforgivable! But if we may plead our case, we (D and M) have had a most busy of years, with D working on the Atlas Obscura, and M making her way in the world of...
The Boston Science Museum is full of wonders; it’s like a children’s museum for adults (although kids seem to like it too.) We especially love the gigantic models of insects. Giant Housef...
One of the first museums we visited when we began Curious Expeditions nearly three years ago was the fantastic Naturhistorisches Museum in Bern, Switzerland. Though we tend to be drawn to museums env...
March is insect month here at Curious Expeditions in celebration of our group art show, Entomologia, up until April 4th at Observatory! La Specola in Florence, Italy, is most famous for its world cla...
The opening night of the show I curated, Entomologia, was a great success! Thank you to all who made it out despite the snowstorm that night. Here are a few images from the show. There is still plent...
We are extremely excited to announce Entomologia, a group show of insect art; curated by our very own Michelle Enemark and on view at our event/gallery space, Observatory. We believe that science and...
Show girls, singing and dancing. A band with blasting bugles. A dental chair poised at the ready in the bed of a horse-drawn wagon. And there at the center of it all is Painless Parker, dressed to th...
Where must one go to hear a tale of man-bats, Edgar Allan Poe, lunar telescopes, PT Barnum, newspapermen, a massive hoax, unicorns, 1830s New York, and a 161-year old woman, all wrapped into one amaz...
Two beautiful marionette-like hand-carved wooden anatomical models from Japan. “During the 17th and 18th centuries when traditional Japanese physicians attempted to deduce the workings of the b...
M and I recently had the chance to talk with Jeff Hoke author of book, website, and other space, “The Museum of Lost Wonder,” when he spoke with Clint Marsh at Observatory. If you aren...
Stairway to the Dark Church The Dark Church (Karanlık Kilise) at the Göreme Open Air Museum, is carved straight out of the soft volcanic rock peaks that the Cappadocia region of Turkey is famous for....
It probably goes without saying that we here at Curious Expeditions have a special place in our hearts for collectors. As a child I believe I had about 15 running collections, ranging from bookmarks ...
Rarely does Curious Expeditions get to engage in the kind of historical mystery solving that we would like to, but one of our readers has presented us with a real true-blue historical and architectur...
As some of our regular readers have noted it has been a bit quiet around these parts… too quiet. M and I couldn’t agree more, and I have to claim partial responsibility for that. We have ...
D and I have found our our way into countless antique/curio/natural history shops through our travels, but few have been as electrifying as The Bone Room in Berkley, California. Llama skeleton! Taxid...
We know it’s been too quiet around these parts lately, but the good news is we’ve been absent because we were traveling! We can’t wait to share with you all of the curiosities San F...
The church-like Hall of Antlers at the Agricultural Museum in Budapest, Hungary, was previously featured on Curious Expeditions, and for more images, please visit our flickr set. The museum itself is...
Dear Readers, We are delighted to announce the launch of our new site design! Have a look around, let us know what you think. We are also very excited to be able to offer this design up as a Wordpres...
Called the “Wall of Steles,” this morgue-esque structure is on display, complete with an ancient skeleton, at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Carved portraits seem to act as...
We were the only people in the dark, musty, maze-like museum in a quiet part of Vienna, a long trolley ride from the city center. We weren’t prepared for what we were about to see. Yellowed sku...
Curious Expeditions has an affinity for birds; and so does the marvelous Naturhistorisches Museum in Bern, Switzerland.
Of all the world’s mammals, there is one that lays claim to a jaw full of the world’s largest teeth. That distinction goes to one of our seafaring mammalian brothers, the sperm whale. Sur...
The Semmelweis Museum in Budapest, Hungary is one of the city’s most rewarding little hidden treasures. Located on a small side street on the Buda side of the Danube (the bustling city side, Pe...
There is something inherently creepy about automata. Moving, yet un-living little people, their vacant eyes staring into nothing as they perform their set of actions over and over. They occupy that u...
We are very excited and humbled that our Brooklyn apartment was recently featured on Apartment Therapy!
The Sibiu Pharmacy Museum in Sibiu, Romania, is housed in a 1569 Gothic townhouse where the oldest pharmacy in Romania operated for over 150 years. The pharmacy was known as La Ursul Negru (The Black...
Bright Prussian blues, pasty greens, muted periwinkles, rich aquas and pale violets; yet they are all one color, united by a name and an ancient tradition. Haint Blue originated in the deep American ...
If you are in the New York area on July 10, please join us at Observatory for our first Curious Expeditions event! Date: Friday, July 10 Time: 7:30 Admission: $3.00 Curious Expeditions Presents: Anti...
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