10 Real and Made-Up Artifacts in U.S. Museums

Edgar Allan Poe’s Typewriter
📍 Boston Museum of Literary History

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Pocket Kit for Detecting Counterfeit CoinsPocket Kit for Detecting Counterfeit Coin (1863)
📍 U.S. Treasury Historical Wing

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Concrete Floor Fragment from Nirvana’s First Concert in Seattle
📍 Grunge Era Hall, Seattle

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Pocket Compass from the Sojourner Mars Rover (1997)
📍 Jet Propulsion Artifacts Hall, Pasadena

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Albert Einstein’s Brain
📍 Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz
📍 Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex “Sue”
📍 Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

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Napoleon’s Death Mask

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Collection of 2,374 Swallowed Objects
📍 Mütter Museum

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The World’s Oldest Happy Meal French Fries
📍 Museum of the American Potato

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