Clocks, cars, toilets: There’s a museum for almost anything

Sure, you can take in the classics at the MFA, or contemporary art at the ICA. But why stop there? In these parts, museums come in all shapes and sizes and appeal to all sorts of interests. Birds, toilets, cars, snowmobiles, bad art, great medicine — these are just a few of the subjects that have entire museums dedicated to them. We rounded up a slew of them for your learning pleasure.

PAUL S. RUSSELL, MD MUSEUM OF MEDICAL HISTORY AND INNOVATION Massachusetts General Hospital main campus, 2 North Grove St., Boston, 617-724-8009, www.massgeneral.org/museum

Features past and present tools used in surgeries such as amputations. Artifacts include an incubator made out of automobile parts, an ether inhaler, 19th-century surgical kits, and machines used to generate electric shocks.