May 18 is International Museum Day, and many museums around the world are participating by hosting special events and/or offering discounted admission. Not all are on the map accompanying this story, so check directly with whichever museum you've been meaning to visit for the last year. (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for example, is offering $5 admission on that day. Those of you in New York can enjoy a 10 percent discount at the Guggenheim Museum store ~ but then, you guys also have the ever-so-fantastic 37th annual Museum Mile festival coming up on June 9:
http://museummilefestival.org/.) Many museums in Europe and some in the U.S. also celebrate with a Museum Night over the weekend. The theme this year is "Museums for a Sustainable Society" (story, link to interactive map of events):
http://news.yahoo.com/sustainability-spotlight-international-museum-day-152330796.html;_ylt=A86.J3bGO1ZVBxYAmN8nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--
In honor of the day last year,
TIME magazine took a look at 10 of the strangest museums in the world:
http://time.com/101851/weirdest-museums-in-the-world/
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