The East Slovak Museum

       The East Slovak Museum in Kosice, Slovakia features an impressive array of dead things.  It’s a space-age throwback of a museum, and possesses an eerie serenity on a quiet Saturday afternoon.   The taxidermy displays are most impressive, and due to the fact that the old lady who sells tickets sleeps at her desk half-way across the museum, and the security guard functions more like the guy from Weekend at Bernie’s, one can easily disregard the “do not touch” signs and climb aboard the taxidermy beasts, pretending you’ve teleported back to the land before time, to a bygone epoch where Neanderthal men rode dinosaurs and hunted wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, and women wore sexy cheetah outfits and cooked and cleaned in the caves.