tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post7199034102656346821..comments2024-03-13T06:57:54.343+00:00Comments on Obnoxio The Clown: WunderkabinettObnoxio The Clownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12012089552153702526noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-183144193024311062012-11-20T23:31:42.826+00:002012-11-20T23:31:42.826+00:00Have you ever been to the Horniman Museum? I have...Have you ever been to the Horniman Museum? I haven't been inside the place for nearly forty years but from what I recall you could have been describing it, as also the museum in the Barracks, in Berwick-upon-Tweed.William Gruffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434757003701117714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-55499280643672021032012-11-19T12:27:12.747+00:002012-11-19T12:27:12.747+00:00As an aside to this, have you had a look at the We...As an aside to this, have you had a look at the Wellcome Collection http://www.wellcomecollection.org/ ?<br />The man was a prodigious collector (there are dozens of packing cases that he'd had sent back from the darkest parts of the continents that were just stacked up and never opened - his mania was for collecting as much as the collection.)<br />As well as bits like Napoleon's toothbrush, prosthetic limbs from centuries ago, a sheet of tattoed skin, amputation knives and saws, there are also an 18th-century ivory dildo and an Indian miniature of a woman using a dildo and the ‘Whizzinator’ - a device, including a false penis, used by athletes to give ‘clean’ urine samples.<br />You can waste a couple of hours here, no trouble.HeartAttackSurvivorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00595705892351194000noreply@blogger.com