Lesson Sixteen - Unusual Museum

 Hello Elias, Bruna and Dani! I think I've got an excellent idea when I decided to prepare a special reading lesson. As I told you before you will find excellent articles at V.O.A. ( Voice of America) than can help you to power up your English. The subject we are gonna study today was taken from V.O.A. You can have the audio of this material straight from the site.http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/A-Visit-to-Several-Unusual-Museums-US-102083108.html



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Unusual Museums

* Americans love museums. We have art museums, history museums, car museums, train museums and space museums. Many are famous. Millions of people from around the world visit them each year. And then we have those other museums. The kind that make you ask, “Did they really build a museum for that?” Mario Ritter tells us about some of these unusual museums.

Questions:

1- What do american Love?
2- What kind of museums are there in the U.S.A. ?
3- Are there any famous museum ?
4- Who visit these museums each year?
5- What people wonder when they hear about some unusual museum?

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1- Mustard Museum

Mustard Museum in Wisconsin

"  It may be yellow, brown, grey, mild, or hot and spicy. We put it on sandwiches, squirt it on hot dogs and even dip pretzels in it. No American picnic would be complete without mustard.
People in the town of Middleton, Wisconsin love it so much, they built a museum in its honor. The National Mustard Museum has over five thousand kinds of mustard from sixty countries. You can even have a taste and buy containers of mustard in the museum."

Questions

1- According to the text what are the kind of mustard ?
2- What can we do with mustard?
3- Is that possible to imagine a picnic in the U.S.A. without mustard?
4- What did the people from Wiscousin do that became  an evidence that they love mustard?
5- What is the name of the museum?
6- How many kinds of mustard are there in this museum?
7- Where are these mustard from?
8- Is it possible to taste or buy mustard in the museum?

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2- Banana Museum


" If you visit the Banana Museum in Auburn, Washington you could learn everything you ever wanted to know about bananas. There are almost four thousand objects in honor of this favorite fruit."

Auburn Banana Museum

 Questions :

  1- Where is the Banana museum?
  2- Where is Auburn?
  3- What can you learn there?
  4- How many banana objects are there in the museum?

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3- Human hair museum

" Another unusual museum is in Independence, Missouri. It has over one hundred fifty wreaths and two thousand pieces of jewelry made with human hair. Leila Cohoon owns the museum and says some of the objects are over one hundred years old. The human hair wreaths were considered pieces of art long ago."

Human Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri

Questions:

1- Where is the Human Hair Museum?
2- Where is Independence?
3- How many wreaths  made with human hair are there in the museum?
4- What about pieces of jewelry ?
5- Who is the founder of the museum?
6- According to her how old are the objects?
7- When it was considered a piece of art?

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4- The Hammer Museum

" If you are ever in Haines, Alaska you might want to visit the Hammer Museum. There you will find over one thousand five hundred different kinds of hammers. Dave Pahl started the museum in two thousand two. He says some of the hammers on display were used thousands of years ago by the ancient Egyptians."

Hammer Museum /Haines,Alaska

 Questions:

1- Where is the Hammer Museum?
2- How many different kinds of Hammer you can find there?
3- Who is the owner of the museum?
4- When did he began the project?
5- What does he say about the hammers on display?



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5- The Twine Ball Museum


" And then there is the Twine Ball Museum in Darwin, Minnesota. It has only one object on display – what it calls the largest twine ball in the world. A man named Francis Johnson began winding twine, or thick string, into a ball in March of nineteen fifty. He wound for four hours a day for twenty-three weeks. The ball got so big, he needed a crane to lift it so he could wind some more. Mr. Johnson wound the ball for about thirty years. When he was finished, the twine ball was four meters across and weighed seven thousand nine hundred kilograms."

The Twine ball Museum in Darwin

 Questions:

1- What unusual museum is placed in Darwin, Minnesota ?
2- How many objects are there on display? How it is called?
3- When Mr. Johnson began winding it into a ball?
4- How many time did he spend doing it?
5- Why did he need a crane?
6- Did he take long to complete the work?
7- How was the twine ball when he finished the work?

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6- The Toilet Seat Museum


" Or you could visit Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Museum in San Antonio, Texas. Yes, it is what you think it is! Mr. Smith says he has painted or decorated about one thousand toilet seats. Many of the seats have personal meaning to him. Some show his travels around the world."

Mr. Barney and his arts

 Questions:

1- Who is the founder of the Toilet Museum?
2- Where is the museum placed?
3- How many toilet seats has he painted or decorated?
4- Why these seats are so important to him?

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" Then there is the Museum of Sex in New York City. That museum has …sorry, we are out of time!"

Museum of sex in New York

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