Portland’s International Cryptozoology Museum named in ‘10 weirdest museums’ list

Not that we needed confirmation from an outside source, but Time has named Portland’s International Cryptozoology Museum as one of the 10 weirdest museums in the world.

Loren Coleman holds a model of Bigfoot at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland. The supposed Bigfoot footprint was found in Washington state in the 1980s.

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Time published the list last Sunday in honor of International Museum Day to call attention to a few museums that are anything but mundane.

The International Cryptozoology Museum came in at No. 7.

Time wrote, “Cryptozoology is literally ‘the read more