The Museum of Unnatural History...

The last stop on our little Washington adventure was the Museum of Unnatural History!

It's another fantastic concept from the 826 Group, who created the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store and the San Francisco Pirate Supply Store, as well as a few others dotted around America. This particular shop is dedicated to all things weird and wonderful and completely made up...

Like the Owlephant!

Just like the Superhero Store, there are secret classrooms at the back of the shop and all proceeds from the shop go to fund the writing workshops that 826 run through-out the country. Also just like the other stores, there are some brilliantly clever things for sale, all perfectly themed and packaged...

 From Unicorn Tears (glittery goo) to Cave Painting Kits (pavement chalk), every item was so creative and funny. Most of the items were empty jars or tins, just like they are in Brooklyn, but it's a very clever way to get people to make donations.

We made a wee donation and are now the proud owners of a Koala Containment Unit (or a big glass jar!), that's now sitting proudly in the apartment.

My other favourite item for sale, which I thought was so clever was the Formaldehyde...

They had for levels of Dehyde - Formal, Semi-Formal, Business Casual and Informal... BRILLIANT!

The shop was set up a bit like a museum, with funny skeletons on display, dinosaurs peering round corners and stuff animals with funny names hanging upside down from the ceiling.

The colourful wheel was a Wheel of Answers, you ask it a question, spin it and it'd land on an answer, like 'Just because' or 'Have a cup of tea'.

As all the 826 shops are there to help budding writers, there's always books for sale, in this shop there was even a little reading area, in a cave complete with mammoth skin rugs...

The whole shop was so brilliantly thought out and really inspiring. The 826 Group are having so much fun with what they do and it's proving to be incredibly successful. It's definitely a 'I wish I'd thought of that' kind of thing.

The last thing that we spotted, just as we were leaving was the Customer Complaint Form...

Perfect!