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What drives someone to build a museum around fossilized dung, tapeworms, or the objects left behind after a breakup? This week we tour the world's most niche museums — the Poozeum in Arizona, Tokyo's Meguro Parasitological Museum, Iceland's Phallological Museum, Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships, Boston's Museum of Bad Art, and more. Each one started with a single founder's fixation that outgrew the house. Some are sheds with signs; others are serious research institutions hiding behind absurd subjects. Along the way we find out why an axe donated by a Berlin woman won a European museum award, why a museum displays empty cases for invisible elf anatomy, and why a museum of bad art rejects nine out of ten submissions for not being bad enough. Episode #157569 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/157569