Hysterical

Palm Springs Art Museum

As we walked about the museum, I kept noticing that two women were laughing hysterically nearly every time I saw them. I then noticed that they were looking at the paintings and sculptures through Snapchat face lenses.

Try it. You'll laugh too.

Chocolate wallpaper

Palm Springs Art Museum

The walls are "papered" with chocolate. Sophia likes this room.

Scottsdale Historical Museum

Scottsdale Historical Museum

Visit the Scottsdale Historical Museum in the historic Little Red School House to for a glimpse into Scottsdale's history and heritage.

Don't Look

Superstition Mountain Museum

Look at Superstition Mountain. Look at the snakes. Look at the skeleton. Look wherever you like, but don't look at the camera. :)

Time travel for only $1

Jim Ruddy's General Store Museum

Ruddy's General Store Meseum offers an impressive collection of items from 1930s general stores. It is well worth the $1 admission fee.

Professor Gray's Computers

Paul Gray PC Museum

There are a half dozen display cases scattered about halls of Claremont Graduate University's Academic Computing Building. The contents of these cases make up the Paul Gray PC Museum -- a retired professor Paul Gray's collection of personal computers. Most of the machines were familiar to me, and I've used many of them. However. I understand that these are likely ancient artifacts to today's students. I only wish the computers were powered up and computing.

Bunnies

The Bunny Museum

Twenty-some years ago, Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski began exchanging daily rabbit-related gifts. This continued until the collection grew to the point that they joked about living in a bunny museum. In 1998, they made it official and opened the Bunny Museum in Pasadena. The museum recently moved north to Altadena and the collection contains over 35,000 bunnies.

If you can charge an admission fee, it's not hoarding; it's a museum.

Getty Center

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Oilman and art collector J. Paul Getty was once the richest man on the planet. When he died, he left his fortune to his museum trust. Today that trust exhibits a huge collection of art at the beautiful Getty Center.