My home is a refuge not only from the world, but from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.
---- Maya Angelou

Monday, October 18, 2010

The International Spy Museum













Welcome to a world where nothing is what it seems.



shoe transmitter



pidgeon camera


KGB coat with buttonhole


lipstick camera





Bond Car

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Umbrellas are pistols. Dead rats are microphones. Femme fatales are men fatales. Gain access to a wild world of gadgets, weapons, bugs, cameras, vehicles and spy-tech that defies classification.

And what about the ingenious disguise techniques developed by Hollywood for the CIA? What about the “wilderness of mirrors” on the other side during the Cold War?

At the museum you can adopt a cover identity and learn why an operative needs one. You’ll hear spies, in their own words, describe the challenges and the "game" of spying. What motivates them? Patriotism? Money? A compromising situation? Their own egos? Do you have what it takes to live a life of lies as a spy? The answers are exhibited here for those clandestinely curious enough who enter.

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