Austria Museum of Nonsense Draws Worldwide Visitors

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Don’t you just need a soup bowl with a drain? At the Nonseum, but not on sale.

Nonseum, a museum of silly inventions, is  in the small village of Herrnbaumgartenn ,Austria. It has developed fans around the world and it claims to be the only one of its kind in the world

Some of the silly inventions on display are a spaghetti travel case, tricycle for twins and a champagne cork retainer.  The museum not only humorous,one of the managers,  Susanne Machacclaims , claims it’s a critique on  our modern consumer society.

“It’s a philosophy of life: these are all things that we don’t really need,  but at least we’re admitting that we really don’t need them.”

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