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American Dime Museum

Category: Monuments + Museums

1808 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21213
410.230.0263

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American Dime Museum - Reviews from across the web

Crazy experience - user review
My boyfriend was reluctant to go, because he thought it was a museum about dimes! But he really got into it when we were there. If youve ever wondered what the old-time freak...
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The Germ of Curiosity: The American Dime Museum - user review
amusement business of today is vastly different than it was in Barnum?s museum days--but the human mind of today is still susceptible to the contagion of the germ of curiosity??br>~ Joe Tracy Emmerling ~ The suspension of disbelief is a wonderful thing, I realize the afternoon we visit the American...
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AMERICAN DIME MUSEUM
Century America. And by the mid-1800s, the idea had become so popular with the American public that entrepreneurial geniuses like P. T. Barnum became millionaires through the exhibition of vast collections of man-made and natural curiosities. Eventually, capitalizing on the public's need for enterta...
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Baltimore, MD - American Dime Museum - Closed
Absolutely worth the price of admission! Our favorites included the mummified head of a Minotaur, the stuffed squirrel riding an alligator, and a great collection of shrunken heads. Bring a necktie to add to the ball of ties. You are also invited to stick your chewed gum onto a female mannequin. Bal...
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American Dime Museum closes, auctions oddities - Boing Boing
Baltimore's American Dime Museum, a wunderkammer in the tradition of 19th century cabinets of curiosity, is closing its doors. A public auction (also through eBay Live) for the oddities, gaffs, taxidermy, bizarre art, and sideshow artifacts will take place on Monday, February 26, at 5pm through...
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American Dime Museum, Baltimore - IgoUgo Reviews
Usually it is not so much the object but an exotic story woven around it that excites interest. We are informed, for example, that a wizened brown hand resting in a glass case is the hand of “Spider Lillie,” a murderous prostitute who killed by releasing a poisonous spider from the large ring on...
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American Dime Museum, Baltimore, MD : Reviews of American Dime Museum - Yahoo! Travel
This contemporary museum offers a glimpse of all things strange and unusual. It's reminiscent of the sideshows of the 19th century. The museum features an odd assort...
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a curse dot com > lore > the hunt > baltimore dime museum
One of the roving attractions recently featured at the American Dime Museum and advertised on a bright colorful banner from outside was 'World's Largest Bat - could kill a horse!' In true sideshow fashion, dime museum visitors eager to catch a glimpse of some type of mutant, giant vampire bat with l...
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The American Dime Museum: Julie's Tacky Treasures
For a mere $5.00 (due to inflation, the “dime” in the name of the museum no longer refers to the entry price), you would be shocked and amazed as you gazed on such oddly sensational objects as the severed hand of the murderous Spider Lillie, who used a secret compartment in her ring to r...
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Commentary: Baltimore's American Dime Museum unlike any other museum | Daily Record, The (Baltimore) | Find Articles at BNET.com
Horne says that while business is good - the American Dime gets as many as 100 visitors daily through its converted rowhome space and is expanding into the space next door, with plans of a space for freak show and sleight-of-hand performers - it is not well-known in Charm City. The museum boasts loc...
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