An Art Tour of the Tacky

Leave the Louvre behind. avoid the masses at the Met. Here's our guide to some truly weird museums. See New Jersey trash, Swiss frogs and more.

By Malcolm Beith

Who says a museum has to be about art? With worldwide museum attendance higher in the past decade than ever, curators are realizing they dont't need a Picasso to bring in the crowds. Mumimies, or shoes - or ever bananas - will work just as well. Disappointed in the "Mona Lisa"? Sample the Jell - O Museum in Le Roy, New York, is home to a plumbing museum and Munich displays potatoes. Art snob who enounce it all as "rubbish" would to visit the Trash exhibit in Warren Country, New Jersey - anyway, they often say the same about modem art. Wacky museums appeal because they "present the world around us in ways that are unexpected", says museum designer Karl Katz, the former chair of especial projects at New York's Metropolitan Museum. The "stuff" on display is secondary. "There'd be a bagel museum if had my way", he says. Judging from the competition, he won't, have to wait long.

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