The Museum of the Weird is a small sideshow-style attraction on 6th Street that calls itself a continuation of the traditional dime museum — the Victorian-era entertainment venues that combined freakshow exhibits with natural history oddities and theatrical showmanship. The collection includes a genuine shrunken head from Ecuador, mummies, a Fiji mermaid reproduction, wax figures, and various natural curiosities.
The museum is unabashedly campy and operates in full awareness of its genre: this is not a natural history museum but a celebration of the tradition of exhibiting the strange and improbable as entertainment. For visitors who appreciate this tradition honestly rather than ironically, it delivers. The gift shop sells appropriately odd merchandise. Open late on weekends.