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Museum Month: Cockroach Hall Of Fame & Museum, Plano, Texas
We've covered some pretty weird museums this month here on Gadling. One that may take the prize for the weirdest is the Cockroach Hall Of Fame & Museum in Plano, Texas.
Museum curator and professional exterminator Michael Bohdan opened the museum so he could educate people about a bug that's got a serious knack for survival. As Bohdan points out, cockroaches have been around more than 350 million years and survived a lot of Earth's upheavals that have killed off lesser species, so we might be able to learn something from them.
Wearing his roach-lined fedora, Bohdan takes visitors around the displays, showing off little dressed up bugs such as Marilyn Monroach and Ross Peroach. There's even a Liberoachie that plays the piano. More serious displays tell about roach biology and the amazing ways they've adapted to a wide range of habitats.
For more strange educational experiences, check out more of our articles on weird museums!
Filed under: Learning, North America, United States
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
alexis May 28th 2012 9:54AM
how about a roach limbaugh?
chiefg May 28th 2012 11:29AM
Good one!
Chiefg May 28th 2012 11:04AM
Interesting presentation but what I'd really like to know is do Cockroaches cause disease in humans? Are they full of bacteria?
Bill May 28th 2012 11:05AM
When I was teaching fourth and fifth grade in a Dallas suburb, (2006) I took my classes on a field trip in which we stopped at Cockroach Hall of Fame. It was FANTASTIC! So much fun and Mr. Bohdan was so good with the kids, even the squeamish girls! If you are in the Dallas area, give him a call and go visit. The kids will love it!
chiefg May 28th 2012 1:15PM
I used to live in Austin. I loved Texas. The Army moved me and now I am in Arizona. I think if I was in Texas I would be sa supporter of sessesion or what ever you call it. I admire States that don't take guff from the Feds. Especially now when some clown wants to fundamentally change America.
Tim May 28th 2012 2:22PM
your nuts. Everything is creepy in texas.
Canefighter May 28th 2012 3:56PM
Kind of gives one that itchey feeling all over. lol
djinsta May 28th 2012 1:16PM
Everything in texas is weird and much of it is horrible - thank heavens I'm retired and can move back home and get a life which was never available here unless travelling out of the country/
Maria May 28th 2012 2:22PM
Cockroaches absolutely creep me out. If I could get past that then it would probably be very interesting to learn more about them but I am not sure I could get past the panic of seeing so many in one place. I live in Texas and not too far from Plano and this is the first I have heard of this place.
ogates May 28th 2012 2:23PM
My mother was born in TX and when she left as an adult she said she hated it there and would never go back--thank God otherwise I would have been born there!
ogates May 28th 2012 2:23PM
Texas hasn't seceded yet! Oh darn it! LOL
Tom May 28th 2012 3:50PM
What's the big surprise? It's Texas. They're all Cockroaches down there.
paula May 28th 2012 6:21PM
Why haven't you offered little momentos to your visitors...such as
jewroacherly...earrings, rings, even bracelets and lapel pins, bROACHes, etc.?? I'll bet these would go over really big with the "I love creepy stuff" crowd!