Pokémon and Van Gogh Museum: Unusual museum exhibits from around the world

A painting of Pikachu inspired by Van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat'

Have you ever wondered what you would get if you crossed Pokémon with the paintings of the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh?

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Pokémon and the museum have joined forces.

They've launched an official collaboration aimed at introducing new audiences to the work of the artist.

The exhibition features Sunflora peeking through Sunflowers and Pikachu wearing a grey felt hat - just like Van Gogh did in his famous self-portrait.

This isn't the only museum to get people talking - check out some of the more unusual ones below.

Sweden's selfie museum

Visitors are encouraged to take selfies at the museum

Museums are known for housing lots of interesting artefacts, paintings and other cool objects that can't be found else, but have you ever visited one with absolutely nothing on the walls?

It's highly unlikely, but that's exactly what one museum in Sweden has decided to do.

Instead, people who visit the "Youseum", which is based in the country's capital Stockholm, are being encouraged to become the art.

How, you ask? Well, rather than the layout of a more traditional museum, the Youseum has a number of brightly-decorated rooms which visitors can use as fun backdrops to take selfies or shoot videos.

Would you take a trip to this museum?

"You can take cool pictures and create cool content for your Instagram... This is the perfect place to do Tiktoks," said the museum's manager Sofia Makiniemi.

Some of the spaces include an emoji room filled with blue and yellow balls with smiley and frowning faces, another with giant pillows complete with a fluffy cloud and even a room with pink washing machines.

The Unko Museum, Japan

They're such poo-sers

An exhibition all about poo might sound like it stinks, but take a look at this poop-themed show in Japan.

The Unko Museum in Yokohama focuses on everything about number twos and it's even named after the brown stuff as "unko" means poo in Japanese.

Before you get grossed out it's worth pointing out the poops aren't very realistic, instead they are more like a pastel emoji version.

Visitors can pose with poo lollipops, jump on virtual poos to splat them and they even have poo-themed cupcakes.

Erm... ok... Well, these poos are pretty cute, but if you were after something more disgusting read on.

The National Poo Museum

What on earth could this be? It's lion poo inside a resin display ball of course!

Unko is not the only museum obsessed with faeces, there's the National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight that opened in 2016 and has 20 different types of real poo on display.

They took the poo from lots of different animals and even have fossilised dinosaur poos.

Luckily the droppings are trapped inside resin balls so it's not too smelly. Phew or should that be poo?

Space Poo Exhibition

There was also a exhibition about excrement at the Miraikan Science Museum in Tokyo, Japan, in 2014.

Visitors could wear poo hats and slide down inside a giant toilet into a virtual sewer.

It was designed to be educational and put the fun back into bodily functions. That's top of the plops.

Sweden's disgusting food museum

And if you think that's disgusting how about this museum all about stomach-churning foods from around the world.

It opened in Sweden in 2018 and features all sorts of delicacies like eyeball soup and fried tarantula. Take a look if you dare.

Confiscated toy museum

This random collection of bits and bobs includes a fake eyeball, sweets a fake moustache and an ink cartridge, gross!

Talking of eyeballs, this toy was part of an exhibition at the famous Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood in London.

It was a collection of banned toys put together by a teacher and was all the toys he took off pupils in his classes over the years.

The Inflatable Museum

And how's this for a strange museum?

The whole museum was an inflatable blow up space that popped up in Manchester in 2016. It was a bit like a bouncy castle, so was only temporary.

But it was fun while it lasted.

So what do you think... Would you like to go to a poo museum? Would you eat any of the disgusting foods? What is the weirdest exhibition you've been to?

Let us know in the comments below.