The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
- Art lovers
- Natural history enthusiasts
What Visitors Say
Honestly one of the best curiosity museums I’ve been to. Amazing concept combining bar and weird stuff museum. You get a discounted ticket to museum if you buy a drink at the bar. The museum looks small and narrow at first, but don’t be fooled- it is filled with curious items that will keep you entertained for hours. I run through 2 cocktails and finished my phone’s battery taking all the photos :) a beautiful place to return someday again!
As someone who’s been goth for 18 years, I genuinely thought I could handle anything this museum had to throw at me. Apparently not lmaoo It’s hard to explain, but the atmosphere felt surprisingly heavy. I usually don’t react like that, even in places that are supposed to be creepy, haunted, or have a heavy energy. I’ve visited plenty of unusual and dark-themed places over the years and never felt this way before, just putting this out there😂 I enjoy weird, gothic, and unusual things myself, but I’m quite sensitive when it comes to violent deaths, blood, sexual content, and kink-related exhibits. For me, there was a little more of that than I was expecting, and it ended up feeling a bit overwhelming. After a while, I started feeling light-headed and even ended up with a headache. My husband, on the other hand, is obsessed with true crime, satanism, and all things super morbid, and he absolutely loved it. That said, if you’re fascinated by the darker side of history, oddities, and the macabre, you’ll probably have a great time. But if you’re sensitive to graphic themes or tend to absorb the energy of places, it might be worth keeping that in mind before visiting. Fellow empaths, proceed with caution 😂 Definitely a unique and memorable experience, I will never forget this lol.
Atmosphere is very dark and spooky. Cool rock music in the background. There are weird things everywhere .. bones, tribal masks, figurines, just a lot of cool stuff. The staff is really lovely and helpful. The "nightmare on mare street" drink... Real nice...
Unique collection that will transport you to other worlds, existing and fantastical. If you like magical objects, dark arts, creepy stuff, mysterious treasures: this is the place! I booked in advance, and when I went down the stairs into the museum, slipped in another world for 45 minutes. Upstairs and equally darkly enchanted cocktailbar btw.
An very unique and unusual experience where innumerable pieces starting from hairballs, used condoms by rockstars, celebrity poop, taxidermy, dodo skeletons, double headed lamb, voodoo dolls and tribal collections are all put together in a small underground room, for you to explore at leisure The room is very small with spiral staircase leading down from the absinthe parlour above, so not good for anyone with disability or claustrophobia. We visited around the time of Halloween, so was rather enjoyable. The entry to the absinthe parlour upstairs is free and also an experience as long as you have a good staff explaining everything (we didn't and so for us it was a waste of time). Great place to visit if you are in awe of the magic, macabre and Natural history.
Highlights
Descent to the Grotto
Atmosphere as exhibitLow ceilings, crimson walls and jam-packed vitrines recreate the 19th-century ‘wonder room’ in miniature.
Basement museum
Taxidermy & Nature
Beauty, mortality, displayButterflies, birds and beasts meet cabinets of shells and minerals in lush, theatrical arrangements.
Basement cases
Bar & Absinthe
Aperitif to the uncannyShort, eccentric cocktail list ties the upstairs mood to the museum’s dream logic.
Ground floor
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
Run by the Last Tuesday Society, the museum began as a private collection turned public curiosity cabinet—more salon than state museum by design.
Displays deliberately mingle high and low—fine art prints might sit beside seaside oddments—to parody Victorian taxonomies and Instagram-age collecting alike.
Entry can be cheaper if you pre-book a cocktail table—because here, hospitality is part of the museology.
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