Here's some information about four unusual museums on our "Museums of the World" tour. I'll send you the travel plan next week.

	The Bad Art Museum（in Boston, USA）shows paintings as “art too bad to be enjoyed". As part of the visit, we'll see some truly awful paintings. And the guide will tell some interesting stories behind the worst ones.
	The Banana Museum（in Washington, USA）contains 4, 000 objects. They are all related to the history of bananas. We'll have a guided tour around the museum. Also, we'll watch a short movie about some interesting facts.
	The Hair Museum（in Avanos, Turkey）is located in a cave in Central Anatolia. It contains 16, 000 samples of people's hair. After the guided tour,   you can choose to learn about how to make pottery（陶器）.
	The Music Museum（in Berlin, German）collects European classical music instruments from the 16th to 2lst century. The museum has a collection of nearly 3, 200 instruments. And a guide will show you around it.

San Francisco has its cable cars. Seattle has its Space Needle. And, Longview has its squirrel(麻雀) bridge. The bridge is now a local landmark.

The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in 1963 by a local builder, Amos Peters, to give squirrels a way to cross the busy road without being hurt by passing cars.

Before the bridge was built, squirrels had to avoid traffic to and from the Park Plaza office building. Many times, Peters and other workers saw squirrels being run over.

One day Peters found a dead squirrel, and that day’s coffee break discussion turned into squirrel safety. The group of businessmen came up the squirrel bridge idea and named the bridge “Nutty Narrows.”

Amos Peters and Bill Hutch started to build the bridge. It cost $1,000.

It didn’t take long before reports of squirrels using the bridge stared. Squirrels were even seen guiding their young and teaching them the ropes. The story was picked up by the media, and Nutty Narrows became known in newspapers all over the world.

In 1983, after 20 years of use, Peters took down the worn-out bridge. Repairs were made and crosspieces were replaced. The sign was repainted and in July 1983, hundreds of animal lovers attended the completion ceremony of the new bridge.

Peters died in 1984. and a ten-foot wooden squirrel sculpture(雕像) was placed near the bridge in memory of its builder and his devotion(奉献) to the project. (For more pictures, see http://cn.bing.com/)