Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum - Atlantic City
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum - Atlantic City
Atlantic City's Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum is located on the Boardwalk at New York Avenue and is open year-round. This building looks as if a wrecking ball is about to knock it down, but inside lies a treasure trove of interesting and unusual artifacts, photos and stories.
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museums are all over the world. They were created to display exhibits that one would find so bizarre that you would have to see it to believe it. Some objects that the museum feature are ones that Robert Ripley himself collected in the 1920s and 1930s. Each museum features its own exhibits so you would not see the same objects in the museum in Orlando, FL as you would see in Atlantic City.
Some of the unusual exhibits at the Atlantic City museum include objects made out of common materials which you might never think you could build. A scale model of Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria is made out of over 27,000 matchsticks. There is also a life-size Michael Jordan statue made entirely out of paper, plastic, wire and broken glass shards.
There are many other strange objects and photographs at Ripley's Atlantic City museum. A Fiji Island mermaid which P.T. Barnum once passed off as a real mermaid is on display. There are photographs of people who survived incredible danger. One photograph shows a man's scars after he was viciously attacked by a Great White shark. The scars run from the back of this left arm where it meets the shoulder, down his back and up under his ribs. Amazing he survived! There is a model of Bakur the Gypsy who performed a strange act. He would dance for an hour while he balanced a 40-quart pot that held his infant twins on the top of his head. Incredible! Ripley's Mail Room contains mail which Robert Ripley received on a daily basis. You can actually read some of the letters from people who experienced the bizarre happenings that fascinated Robert Ripley so much.
If the bizarre appeals to you as much as it did to Robert Ripley, you definitely have to visit the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum when you visit Atlantic City.
Atlantic City's Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum is located on the Boardwalk at New York Avenue and is open year-round. This building looks as if a wrecking ball is about to knock it down, but inside lies a treasure trove of interesting and unusual artifacts, photos and stories.
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museums are all over the world. They were created to display exhibits that one would find so bizarre that you would have to see it to believe it. Some objects that the museum feature are ones that Robert Ripley himself collected in the 1920s and 1930s. Each museum features its own exhibits so you would not see the same objects in the museum in Orlando, FL as you would see in Atlantic City.
Some of the unusual exhibits at the Atlantic City museum include objects made out of common materials which you might never think you could build. A scale model of Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria is made out of over 27,000 matchsticks. There is also a life-size Michael Jordan statue made entirely out of paper, plastic, wire and broken glass shards.
There are many other strange objects and photographs at Ripley's Atlantic City museum. A Fiji Island mermaid which P.T. Barnum once passed off as a real mermaid is on display. There are photographs of people who survived incredible danger. One photograph shows a man's scars after he was viciously attacked by a Great White shark. The scars run from the back of this left arm where it meets the shoulder, down his back and up under his ribs. Amazing he survived! There is a model of Bakur the Gypsy who performed a strange act. He would dance for an hour while he balanced a 40-quart pot that held his infant twins on the top of his head. Incredible! Ripley's Mail Room contains mail which Robert Ripley received on a daily basis. You can actually read some of the letters from people who experienced the bizarre happenings that fascinated Robert Ripley so much.
If the bizarre appeals to you as much as it did to Robert Ripley, you definitely have to visit the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum when you visit Atlantic City.
