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Dime Museums & Cabinets of Curiosities

 

We feature here Information, about  Modern and Historic Dime Museums, Cabinets of Curiosities, Collections of the Strange and Unusual.

 

You will find a grand assortment of miscellaneous & interesting articles, stories, artwork, photographs, links etc. etc. etc.  For just one thin dime we have for your consideration

the most amazing sights you will ever see, you won't remember the price of admission

but you will never forget what you are about to see on the inside.

 

 

 

Dime Museums & Other Curiosities

    Articles - Pitch - Other

C.B. Bunnell's Museum

2-03-2010

 

New Dime Museum

1-28-2010

 

Beautiful Experiments

1-12-2010

 

Westminster Mus'ee and Menagerie

1-07-2010

 

Admiral Dots London Museum

12-23-2009

 

Barnum's American Museum 5-21-1855

11-30-2009

 

The Galley Slave

11-25-2009

 

Barnum's American Museum Broadside

11-22-2009

 

Wax Museum New York - Coney Island

11-18-2009

 

To Be Shewn

11-02-2009

 

Coney Island - Dime Museum - 1882 Trade Card

10-03-2009

 

The White Negress

9-29-2009

 

Image from - Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

9-16-2009

 
LU, LU - W.C. Coup's New United Monster Shows

8-31-2009

 

The Elephant Columbus

8-30-2009

 
C.W. Parker Carousel Museum Sideshow Exhibit

8-28-2009

 

Museum of Anatomy

8-01-2009

 
3 Headed Lady

7-26-2009

 

E.M. Worth's American Museum Child Mummy Sideshow

7-20-2009

 
Living Curiosities at Barnum's Museum

7-14-2009

 

Barnum's Living Wonders

6-27-2009

 

Barnum's American Museum - Cover & Insert

6-26-2009

 

Child Born in the Form of a Frog

5-26-2009

 

Great Eastern Menagerie

3-30-2009

 

Burnell & Prescott's Museum & Zoological Institute

3-04-2009

 

Buffalo Museum and Opera House

2-26-2009

 

The Yankee Hill Minstrels

2-10-2009

 

Gassett's Union Museum of Fine Arts

2-06-2009

 

1857 John Sears' Menagenrie

2-02-2009

 

Esquimaux' on Display

1-24-2009

 

Bentley's Big One Dime Show

1-22-2009

 

Allen's Museum of Living Wonders

1-17-2009

 

American Whaling Voyage Panorama Exhibition

1-09-2009

 

Royal Aquarium

1-06-2009

 

Cook Gave a Show in a Dime Museum

12-30-2008

 

1859 Van Ambrug Circus

12-29-2008

 

Benoit's Museum of Living Wonders

12-25-2008

 
1866 Madame English's Buffalo (NY) Museum

12-12-2008

 

Over 100,000 Curiosities

12-12-2008

 
"Barnum's New Museum"

11-28-2008

 

The Use of Freaks

11-03-2008

 
Sideshow World Now Appearing on a Grain of Rice - Kan Riceman

10-28-2008

 

Drew & Co.'s Dime Museum

09-06-2008

 
An Illu. Cat. & Guide Book To Barnum's Am. Museum

08-20-2008

 

The New York Muesum - Mrs. Tom Thumb

08-16-2008

 
The Great London Highroad Museum

05-14-2008

 

A Living Dwarf

06-02-2008

 
All at Barnum's Museum

05-24-2008

 

Mr. Potato Head - Just for the Fun of It!

05-22-2008

 
Opening the ADM it was a night to remember!

Judy Tomaini Rock

 

The Weird Museums & Other Freaky Places

04-24-2008

 
PT Barnum's Recreation Building

01-21-2008

 

Great Dime Museum

01-06-2008

 
This House is Home for Oddities

12-28-2007

 

Oldest Museum in America

12-22-2007

 
Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum)

12-14-2007

 

Olders Museum Circus & Menagerie

11-02-2007

 
Reply from Stanley Burns

09-05-2006

 

Letter to Stanley Burns

09-04-2006

 
The Story of the Chastity Belt

04-23-2006

 

Doug's Spectacular Dime Museum 1993-1994

Doug Higley

 
American Dime Museum a Gallery of Exhibition

01-02-2006

 
Dime Museums

J.G. Wood

 
   

 

 

     

 

    Streaming Video, Audio Clips,  History and Just a Great Time

 

The Weird Museum & Other Freaky Places

04-23-2008

 

American Dime Museum X-2                                                                        06-13-2007

 

The Dime Museums NPR

05-27-2007

 
Sale of the New York Dime Museum  
   
 

 

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Hubert's Freaks

06-28-2009

 
A Case of Curiosity

01-19-2006

 
Images of Tinkertown

12-30-2005

 
UCM Museum 

12-28-2005

 
Tinkertown Museum

   12-27-2005

 

Coney Island Museum   

12-27-2005

Loren Coleman

   12-24-2005

 
     
   
   

 
   

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KORTES & SMITH

 
At Home with Bobby Reynolds  
The Washsatch Museum of Oddities  
Johnny Fox's FREAKatorium

 

The P.T. Barnum Museum

 

Marsh's Free Muesum  

Mütter Museum

 
   
 

 

 

   
Tinkertown Miniature Sideshow

   

 

 

Inside the Tinkertown Sideshow

Tinkertown

Tattooed Lady

Banner

Tinkertown

 

Double S Museum Card

Front & Back cover of Haps & Mishaps of P. Josiah & his Bride elect at the one Dime Museum 9th & Arch Sts. Philadelphia PA. Dime Museum Booklet Sept.13, 1886


   
Circa 1870s WOODS MUSEUM, 9th & ARCH STS., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Pictures Wood's Dime Museum where a very popular in Victorian times. They displayed strange, exotic, animals and bizarre objects.

 

 

 

Note the words Dime Museum on Drum at Front of Float Herzog & Co's Dime Museum S. Watson American Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

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