By Emma Hayes
We round up the UKs oddest museums... from poo to pencilsMay 09, 2024newsNO, it’s not a faeces-tious request – the National POO Museum on the Isle of Wight really is asking for stars to donate their stools.Presumably it wants celebrities whose careers have not gone down the pan.It might seem like a cack idea for a museum, but there are more contenders for the world’s oddest.GRAEME CULLIFORD rounds them up . . .MarshmallowsBIG softies who are off to the World Cup in Russia might want to toast the Marshmallow Museum in KolomnaGolf ballsSPORTS fans will enjoy a drive to the Golf Ball Museum in Germany to see what they have putt on display.ToiletsSOME said it was a potty idea, but the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New Delhi gets loads of visits.Barbed wireFORTUNATELY you can walk in the door of the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum – you don’t need wire cutters.LocksTHE key to telling your deadbolt from your lever handle is found at the Willenhall Lock Museum in the Midlands.Dog collarsGO walkies around the Dog Collar Museum at Leeds Castle, Kent, to see a “fascinating collection of canine neckwear.FleasFLEA fans will be itching to visit the Central Slovenian Scientific Collection of Siphonaptera.PencilsTOURISTS in the Lake District can escape the rain by sharpening their knowledge in the Pencil Museum in Keswick.MOST READ IN UK NEWSLawnmowersTHE UK is at the cutting-edge of lawnmower museums boasting two, one in Cornwall and another in Southport.Inside the Museum of Failures in Hollywood which celebrates things that didn't go to planGOT a news story? RING us on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTErKynZpOke7a3jqecsKtfaoZ6hY9tZ2ivn6e5pb%2BMqJudnaOpeq7B0p6spqtdpbywew%3D%3D