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The Strange World Of Abstract Art In Museums.

Gone are the days when people collected only paintings and photos like fine arts, stamps, manuscripts, abstract art, sculptures, contemporary art, stamps, coins and ruins from excavation sites or specimens of life forms. If you look around, you will be surprised to find that people around the world collect and maintain their own personal museums of different objects that nobody thought could be turned into a collection.

You will be quite amused to find people who collect and preserve music and musical devices, photos and also people who collect bizarre objects like nails, claws, shoes, hair, fruits, (even a particular fruit) books and novels and things like that. So here is a compilation of the most off-beat objects that are being collected, restored and put on display in existing museums and also in museums that specialize in a particular collection of something very uncommon.

The National Music Museum You might be surprised to hear that there is a museum that is dedicated to everything related to music. This is located to the east of Mount Rushmore.

Approximately, a six-hour drive from the place, this museum is all about music. This is the unlikely National Music Museum in South Dakota. The museum is famous because of one of its exhibits, which is a 500-year-old Cello that is noted to be the oldest cello in the world.

The National Music Museum was started by a single man named, Arne B. Larson (1904- 88) who was a friendly band director in Brookings but the lesser-known fact about him was that he was a very enthusiastic collector.

Therefore, he decided that his hobby must be turned into a formal collection and he approached the University of Vermillion to have his 2500 odd instruments from his collection, archived.

The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan

Trust Japan to come up with the most bizarre things. This place will surely give you an insight into the surprising things that people collect. This museum is a hot choice for students and penniless college folks because it archives the history of the ramen noodle in honor of the ramen inventor Momofuko Ando.

The fun part of this museum is that it is shaped like a giant cup o' noodles packet and houses a workshop for making your own ramen noodles and a life-size model of Ando's research shack. The best part of this is the fact that the entry to this archive is completely free!

Barbie Collection by Jian Yang Jian yang has a huge collection of barbie dolls in his neatly arranged living room of his row house. This man is a 33-year-old man from Singapore who has a professional interest in toys. He works as the director of strategy at Omicon Media Group. He began his barbie collection when he was just 13.

His doll collection is numbered around 6000 pieces and he has won the Guiness World Record 2013 for the largest collection of Barbie dolls after Bettina Dorfmann who owns around 15000 dolls.