Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities: London's most unhinged tourist attraction full of bones and taxidermy

If you think you’ve seen everything London has to offer, think again.

Hidden down a spiral staircase on Hackney’s Mare Street, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities is one of the capital’s most delightfully unhinged attractions.

In fact, it’s just been crowned the weirdest tourist attraction in the whole of the UK. This tiny museum is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, crammed wall-to-wall with bizarre, beautiful, and occasionally unsettling objects gathered from across the world.

Forget polished plaques and quiet galleries – here you’ll find dodo bones, two-headed animals, shrunken heads, taxidermy, occult artefacts, and outsider art, all jumbled together in glorious chaos.

Founded by artist and collector Viktor Wynd, the museum was designed to revive the spirit of historic “wonder rooms”, where strange objects were collected simply to amaze and confuse. Labels are minimal, categories are loose, and half the fun is not knowing what you’re looking at – or why it’s there.

Despite its small size, the museum packs a punch. Visitors often describe it as fascinating, funny, and faintly disturbing, with every inch of space filled with something that makes you stop, stare, and question your life choices.

And when you’ve had your fill of curios, there’s more weirdness upstairs. The Absinthe Parlour cocktail bar sits above the museum, serving theatrical drinks in an equally eccentric setting – because nothing rounds off a trip through London’s strangest museum quite like a strong cocktail.

It’s not one for young kids or the faint-hearted, but for Londoners who love the odd, the macabre, and the utterly unexpected, the Viktor Wynd Museum is a must-visit.