A museum devoted to what ! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Barbed Wire

Full name is the Devil's Rope and Barbed Wire Museum, located on Route 66 in Texas, USA. You can learn everything about the history and collecting of barbed wire of which there are over 2000 variations plus over 2000 patented tools to handle it. So if you're thinking of starting a collection you can get information on the subtle difference between a Knickerbocker Applied Three Point Barb and a Brinkerhoff Opposed Lugs Point at:

http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/barbedwireimages.htm

Answer: Austin, Minnesota USA

Not the e-mail/computer variety but the canned meat version introduced in the 1930s as the first canned meat not needing refrigeration and which nowadays, apparently comes in several flavours.
On the museum web link you can learn everything you ever needed to know about this humble food; you can even enter the annual recipe competition and join the Spam Fan Club! However, you wont find the lyrics sung in the famous Monty Python sketch but if you need help they go something like Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam etc.

http://www.spam.com/museum/

Answer: Corkscrews

Glass bottles were not used for selling wine until the 17th century which enabled them to be laid down for storage and corked, which in turn required a tool to extract the latter. The first corkscrews were made by blacksmiths and jewellers and originated in England, not France.

The Musée du Tire-Bouchon features a collection of over one thousand corkscrews.

http://www.domaine-citadelle.com/anglais/historique.html

Answer: Cockroaches

Set up in the back of his store a pest control specialist has created The Cockroach Hall of Fame and Museum where you will find cockroaches (dead) dressed up in costumes to create several different scenes.
But there are also some live ones - Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, up to four inches long that hiss if picked up! Make sure to check your clothes before you leave.

For the visuals go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpMxz0Fc3c

Answer: Lawn Mowers

The lawn mower was invented during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800's by a cotton mill worker who designed a machine to cut the nap on cloth. For some reason he thought that it could apply also to mowing grass, but made his first trials of this at night for fear of being thought insane.
The British Lawnmower Museum has all the information you need including some lawnmowers originally owned by the rich and famous, including those of Prince Charles and Diana Princess of Wales. Maybe they also had lawnmower races! You can even learn about that sport at:

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

Answer: Pencils

The Cumberland Pencil Museum covers the history of the lowly lead pencil first produced in the 16th century. Supposedly, a violent storm uprooted trees and exposed a strange black material, which was graphite. First use was by local farmers to mark their sheep, but the first factory manufacturing pencils using this new material didn't go into production until some 300 years later.

The complete history of pencils and pencil making is here together with exhibitions, art classes and colouring and drawing competitions for children.

http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/

Answer: Spying

Nothing is secret at The International Spy Museum.
Discover the history of spies and their profession from biblical times to the modern era; attend a workshop and learn how to crack codes, read body language and detect surveillance but for something really special have dinner with a spy, in the company of a former member of the clandestine profession.There are even scavenger hunts requiring participants to solve questions whose answers can only be found throughout the museum's collection.

http://www.spymuseum.org/

Answer: Toilets

The first one goes back 4500 years and at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets you can trace the history from way back when right up to the 21st century micro wave version. You would never think that a toilet could be considered beautiful but some of the ones exhibited in this museum are truly works of art.

http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/index.html

Answer: The Black Museum

Although properly named the Crime Museum the better known name was attributed to it by a London newspaper reporter. Opened in 1875 it is the oldest museum in the world devoted to crime.The original intent of the museum was planned by an inspector displaying items used in burglaries to instruct police officers in the detection and prevention of that crime.

The present museum contains a wide collection of weapons used in murders and violent crimes together with items from celebrated cases (Jack The Ripper and others). Also featured is a display of death masks of prisoners hanged at the former Newgate prison and many items from famous cases in British history.

Sorry - unless you are working in law enforcement you'll not get in as the museum is not open to the general public.

http://www.met.police.uk/history/crime_museum.htm

Answer: Phallus

More of a collection than a full museum but nevertheless at the Iceland phallological Museum you can browse a small collection of mammal phalluses (phalli?) from 30 different specimens; whale, walrus, seal, polar bear and other land animals.
No, there's no human example although, the curator does hold a legally certified deed for a future one example from a donor!

http://www.ismennt.is/not/phallus/index.htm