The odors include carbolic soap, crusty bread, rum, urine, vomit and horse manure, said Lucinda Comport and Natalie Fey, who are on the museum’s interpretation team, in an email.
— The scent of Brunel’s SS Great Britain, a restored steamship in Bristol that calls itself the “world’s smelliest museum”, from Exhale Through the Gift Shop, a look at how museums are using smell, at The New York Times.
This reminds me of the article about recreating the scent of ancient Egyptian embalming posted here a while back. Now that’s one scent I’d love to experience.
Me too!