The World's Strangest Museums

The Museum: Former hair stylist Leila Cohoon has spent a good deal of her life working with hair. There was the salon work, of course, but she discovered her real passion in an antique store, buying and restoring hair art: wreaths, jewelry, and portraits with real hair glued on. Cohoon began collecting hair art in 1949 as a hobby; pinched for storage space, she opened her museum in 1990.

The Exhibits: Much of the museum consists of 18th-century hair art, like a pair of wreaths crafted from the hair of two sisters whose heads were shaved upon entering a convent. There’s even a bit of Hollywood here: The museum boasts strands of Marilyn Monroe’s hair, as well as a wreath woven from the donated hair of Phyllis Diller.

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