Museum Of Curiosities

Museum Of Curiosities 🕯️ Dublin's Strangest Museum
🎪 35 Pembroke Street Lower — Dare to Enter?
🎟️ Tickets: https://museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets
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Welcome to The Museum of Curiosities — Dublin’s newest and most unique destination for connoisseurs of the odd, the macabre, and the marvelously misaligned. Nestled within the walls of 35 Pembroke Street Lower, our museum is a living Wunderkammer, a modern-day cabinet of curiosities bursting with objects that defy explanation and delight in their strangeness. As Ireland’s first Museum of Curiositi

es, we offer a rare chance to experience the bizarre like never before. Wander through shadowy halls lined with shelves of bottled specimens, charmingly dreadful taxidermy, arcane medical instruments, mummified oddities, haunted dolls, sideshow wonders, Victorian relics, sorrowful clowns, and curios that flirt with the edges of reason. Every item has a story — a whisper from the past, a fragment of forgotten history, or a nod to the deliciously bizarre. The Museum began its life in the digital ether — a humble Twitter account sharing peculiar images from the depths of the internet and archives. It quickly gathered a following of likeminded lovers of the unusual, and over the years, it morphed and twisted its way into a physical form. At the helm is the elusive cabaret performer Monsieur Pompier, whose love for the surreal and the uncanny has shaped every corner of this strange little world. Whether you are a seasoned oddity hunter or a curious newcomer, the Museum of Curiosities invites you to step inside and lose yourself in a world that dances on the edge of absurdity. This is no ordinary museum. This is a home for the overlooked, the forgotten, the grotesque, and the glorious. Come one, come all — and prepare to be delighted, disturbed, and utterly transfixed.

Good morning.
01/09/2026

Good morning.

Wrigley’s Gum Stand 🌝Featuring Wrigley’s moon-faced mascot, the “Spearman,” this terrifying figure once advertised packs...
31/08/2026

Wrigley’s Gum Stand 🌝
Featuring Wrigley’s moon-faced mascot, the “Spearman,” this terrifying figure once advertised packs of chewing gum in the 1920s. Made of iron with a celluloid face, it bears an extremely worn message on its chest with a slogan that reads: “Be sure it’s Wrigley’s”.

On display at the Museum of Curiosities in Dublin.

Bronze Faun 🦌 A 19th-century bronze sculpture of a smiling, bearded faun, which may have once served as the foot of a pi...
30/08/2026

Bronze Faun 🦌
A 19th-century bronze sculpture of a smiling, bearded faun, which may have once served as the foot of a piece of ornate furniture.

Nkisi Kozo Statue ✨This Bakongo Nkisi Kozo nail fe**sh dog statue from the Democratic Republic of Congo is a carved wood...
29/08/2026

Nkisi Kozo Statue ✨
This Bakongo Nkisi Kozo nail fe**sh dog statue from the Democratic Republic of Congo is a carved wooden power figure in the form of a two headed dog. The doubled heads reflect the belief that dogs could see both spirit and human worlds.
Dogs were valued for their alertness and ability to move between realms. Its surface is densely pierced with iron nails and shards. Nkondi means hunter, referring to a spirit invoked to track trouble, resolve conflicts and enforce justice.

Rat-in-the-box 🐀Early twentieth-century spring-loaded rat toy covered in fabric, likely a "Rat in the Box" designed to s...
28/08/2026

Rat-in-the-box 🐀
Early twentieth-century spring-loaded rat toy covered in fabric, likely a "Rat in the Box" designed to spring out when the box was opened.

Albino mink 🤍
27/08/2026

Albino mink 🤍

Baby-faced soap, United States, 1940s.
26/08/2026

Baby-faced soap, United States, 1940s.

John Wesley 🦴Painted horse vertebrae were a curious form of folk art from the 18th and 19th centuries. A common trope wa...
25/08/2026

John Wesley 🦴
Painted horse vertebrae were a curious form of folk art from the 18th and 19th centuries. A common trope was to transform vertebrae into figures of John Wesley, arms raised and robes spread, mimicking the Methodist preacher.
Some suggest these were devotional objects; however, evidence points to satire: displayed in pubs, the vertebrae were often dunked in ale, a cheeky rebuke of Wesley’s temperance preaching and strict opposition to alcohol.

Syphilis.This educational model depicts the severe facial effects of late-stage syphilis, a chronic infectious disease c...
24/08/2026

Syphilis.
This educational model depicts the severe facial effects of late-stage syphilis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. If untreated, syphilis can progress over many years, eventually causing extensive tissue damage.
In its tertiary stage, it may lead to the deterioration of the nose, mouth and surrounding facial structures, as shown here.

Snappy the crocodile. 🐊
23/08/2026

Snappy the crocodile. 🐊

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