According to its website, The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things started back in 2011 as Dr. Chelsea Nichols' personal blog.

However, it eventually fell into "a period of outrageous neglect and decay," and was relaunched in 2019 as an umbrella site for "a series of digital, curatorial, and writing projects dedicated to making the world a weirder and more interesting place."

As a curator, Nichols is interested "in the strange and dark corners of art history."

She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where her doctoral thesis examined human curiosities in contemporary art.

When she's not posting online, Nichols works as the senior curator at The Dowse Art Museum, throwing such bonkers exhibitions as Candy Coated, The Truth Is Out There, and Steamed Hams.

Nichols is also one half of the duo Curator of Screams, a collaboration with fellow curator Aaron Lister, through which they explore the relationship between contemporary art and horror movies.

Their exhibition projects have included artist-as-vampire Josh Azzarella: Triple Feature, an exploration of the witch archetype in Sisterly, and an ode to folk horror with Eerie Pagentry.

However, in 2020, The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things also entered the real world, in the form of an acclaimed pop-up exhibition called Lost Heads & Hobgoblins at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.