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🕯️ Monsieur Pompier’s Museum of Curiosities 🎪 35 Pembroke Street Lower — Dare to Enter? 🎟️ Tickets: https://museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets View more

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 9

Dare to enter Dublin’s strangest museum? 🕯️💀👁️

Step into a world of oddities, medical marvels, and macabre relics that history forgot at the Museum of Curiosities.

🎟️ Tickets available now: museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets/

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 LOW TICKET WARNING 🚨

Only a few spots remain for Wunderkammer at the Museum of Curiosities, part of the Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival.
Expect a sideshow soirée of strange tales, tarot and mischief after dark in the museum. 🦇🐀

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1731011886149/

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, we were honoured to launch the 2025 Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival. 🧛‍♂️💀

We’re thrilled to be part of the line-up with two nights of unhinged storytelling and performance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wunderkammer-dublin-city-council-bram-stoker-festival-tickets-1731011886149

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

We are oozing with excitement to be part of the 2025 Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival with WUNDERKAMMER at the Museum of Curiosities! 🕯️💀🔮

Find out more: eventbrite.com/e/1731011886149/

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

The Stonefish: proof the ocean doesn’t do beauty contests. 🐟 On display now at the Museum of Curiosities.

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Hedgehog on Wheels, from Iran, c.1500–1100 BCE. 🦔

(Not part of our museum collection, but a piece we adore.)

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Vintage 1950s CPR training manikin with an unsettling face and a hole in the mouth that inflates an internal balloon when blown into. 🫁

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 10d

Water damaged copy of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland” which grew fungi.⁠ ⁠(Photo by Igor Siwanowicz).⁠ 🍄

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing says romance like late-stage syphilis.

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Brains, only 25¢. 🧠

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Turtle Boy. 🐢
A curious half-turtle, half-boy hybrid discovered on the Galápagos Islands during a long-forgotten expedition.

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Robert Blondel, The Twelve Dangers of Hell (1480).

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

One of the museum’s many mysterious nooks waiting to be explored.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

The Butcher Shop - Jean Veber, 1897.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

Renaissance, c. 1550 — the striking "Camino di Satana" 🦁🔥, a fearsome hellmouth fireplace, designed by Venetian architect Michele Sanmicheli at Villa della Torre, Fumane, Verona, Italy.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty - Alice In Wonderland (1933).

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 14d

The Pulsocon, made by Irishman Gerald Macaura in 1902, claimed to boost circulation with 5,000 vibrations per minute. ⚡

This device was typically used as a vibrator and Macaura, who was not a real doctor, was jailed for fraud in 1914 after protests from medical students.

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 14d

The Pillar-Biter (1509–1517), located on the lower section of the choir screen in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, Netherlands.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Please don't feed lions. 🦁

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

Where do baby mermaids come from? Find out at Dublin's Museum of Curiosities. 🧜‍♀️

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

The 1775 Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae features 31 watercolors of demons, magical sigils, and cabbalistic symbols. Here are four of our favourite artworks from this darkly beautiful collection.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 17d

Dutch Gaper. 👅
A traditional figure displayed outside apothecaries in the Netherlands to symbolise medicine-taking.

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 17d

Mister Merry's Play Lighter, Cigarettes and Bubble Gum toys, 1960s. 🚬

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 18d

Wooden milliner’s head, carved in the 1880s, used by hat makers to display hats and bonnets. One of the many curious objects to be found at our odditorium. 🎩

Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 18d

A 19th-century Japanese netsuke, carved from ebony with intricate inlays, showing an owl battling a bat. Not from our collection, just something we love! 🦇

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Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social · 19d

The Digitorium 🎹
This 19th-century finger exercise machine was designed for amateur pianists to improve strength and dexterity, though it was often blamed for causing hand injuries.

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