By Amanda Black (who else?)

The idea for this blog post started with a joke…I’m watching over the editorial department today since the rest of the members are off-site and working hard. Rick is representing the magazine at the American Bus Association conference in Grapevine, Texas. Aaron’s in North Carolina learning more about SEO and Dave had to step in to help out his elderly dad.

So the joke yesterday was that I’d figure out a way to get some cats on the website, and that’s just what I am doing. I’m the resident expert on all things cute, and cats are my favorite. They own the Internet after all. If you don’t believe me, just check out ICanHasCheezeburger.com.

But seriously, there is a cat museum out there—in San Francisco, which got its start in 2010. The Cat Museum of San Francisco doesn’t have a permanent home, but it does stage exhibitions at various venues throughout the City by the Bay. Plans for the next venue have not been finalized to host the spring exhibition, but the museum plans to launch “Cats on the Seven Seas” in honor of the upcoming America’s Cup races. Bookmark http://www.catmuseumsf.org/exhibit.html for more details about the upcoming exhibit.

Lloret de Mar in Spain also has a cat museum — Casa de Los Gatos Museo. Located in a seaside town an hour from Barcelona, the museum grew from the personal collection of Vera Novoselova and Alexandr Gvozdev. Its large collection includes porcelain, ceramic, art and plenty of other charming objets d’chat.

Other cat museums are located in Moscow and Malaysia. Then, of course, there’s the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West. It’s home to a large colony of cats, descended from the six-toed cat the author received as a gift from a ship’s captain. 

P.S. That's my cat Charlie in the picture. I'm sure he's delighted to be on the Internet again. 

Amanda, thanx for sharing Charlie's picture on your blog. What a great article, too. I had no idea Hemingway had a cat! Or, that there are so many cat museums in the world! Perhaps it would be fun to develop a "Wegman's World" type of book around cats, showing them photographed like Wegman did with dogs, only this time with cats all dressed for various occasions! A great coffee table book...

This rlaley is so good that I had to comment. I'm generally just a lurker, taking in knowledge and nodding my head in quiet approval at the superior stuff?-..this required written props. Theory rocks?-thanks.