I've seen the 'Flesh eating beetle room' at the Natural History Museum. You can book a tour of back of house where you can see some of the millions of specimen jars, many of them the definitive specimen and a few from a little boat called The Beagle
I've been in the Naples one, and was impressed by the Pan Copulating with Goat statue, and various other works on such themes.Saw this piece on atlas obscura. Has anybody here ever been in one of these "secret rooms"? I think it is fascinating that is 2016 the sexual stuff has to be hidden because we can't know ancients got freaky.![]()
Not of that sort, but I have been deep in the bowels of the State Library of Victoria where only employees are normally allowed. I even got to see the cage they keep books about professional magic in, but they wouldn't let us in there, you need to be a practicing magician to get access. Even the librarians can't get in without a special pass. It's all to do with trade secrets and how tricks are performed, they don't want that getting out, for fairly obvious reasons.
Saw this piece on atlas obscura. Has anybody here ever been in one of these "secret rooms"? I think it is fascinating that is 2016 the sexual stuff has to be hidden because we can't know ancients got freaky.![]()
My mother visited Pompeii about 1938 or so when she was in her mid-twenties. Some of the preserved mosaics and murals are rather "racy" and yet she got to see them. I gather you were warned ahead of time.![]()
My mother visited Pompeii about 1938 or so when she was in her mid-twenties. Some of the preserved mosaics and murals are rather "racy" and yet she got to see them. I gather you were warned ahead of time.![]()
I've seen the 'Flesh eating beetle room' at the Natural History Museum. You can book a tour of back of house where you can see some of the millions of specimen jars, many of them the definitive specimen and a few from a little boat called The Beagle
Not quite a secret room, but I once went to the Adirondack Museum (a great museum of Adirondack history, transportation, art, etc.) on an occasion when they opened up their unexhibited collection of boats, both restored and unrestored. They have a very large collection of boats on exhibit, but an incredible number that aren't. Like many museums, their function is not only to exhibit but to preserve, and their collection is much deeper than what you see.
Never been to a secret museum room, but I have been to a private museum. The guy is friends of friends, and let us film part of our indie film in his yard in exchange for helping him put up the Hurloon Minotaur statue in the back yard.
I should point out that these videos could disturb children or delicate-minded people, there are pickled punks and things like that.
There's at least one more video up there, a longer one that just scans over the displays, with music drowning out most of the chatter.
It's an amazing place.
It's pretty much just your typical vaguely macabre stuff, like watching an episode of Oddities. I think the only one that clearly shows a human specimen in a jar is one I didn't link, the 14+ minute one. But there are things like a section of depictions of the devil and assorted sexy woman statuettes around. It didn't deserve a full NSFW warning, but I wouldn't sit a 5 year old on my lap to watch it, unless it was 5 year old me. I had a taste for the weird and macabre even as a wee kid.
Not of that sort, but I have been deep in the bowels of the State Library of Victoria where only employees are normally allowed. I even got to see the cage they keep books about professional magic in, but they wouldn't let us in there, you need to be a practicing magician to get access. Even the librarians can't get in without a special pass. It's all to do with trade secrets and how tricks are performed, they don't want that getting out, for fairly obvious reasons.