Every country has a few odd museums, and Spain has a good assortment, including a few that are guaranteed unique.
There may be another toilet museum somewhere to match the one in Ciudad Rodrigo (see photo above) with its huge collection of chamber pots, gifted to the town by an obsessed local landlord.
Certainly the Witch Museum in Zugarramurdi, once home of Basque witch trials during the Spanish Inquisition must compete with Salem, Massachusetts. Few museums and monuments, of course, can match the level of controversy around Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, designed by Franco as a tomb for himself and a monument to his fascist government.
There are other torture museums beside the one in Santillana del Mar, and maybe a melon museum beside the one in Vallaconejos. Possibly another city has been gifted with thousands of salt and paper shakers, as Guadalest has.
But there is almost certainly no other to match the Microminiature Museum in the same city. The museum features the finest work of leading microminiaturist Manuel Ussá. On a grain of rice, Goya’s painting of the executions on the 2nd of May. The Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle. A flea dressed as a bullfighter. I mean, where else?
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