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A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2026
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A man with the delightful name of Oof Oud spent his career studying DNA and chromosomes at the University of Amsterdam. Then he retired and built the Museum of Plugs and Sockets — a sprawling website cataloging over a thousand electrical plugs and sockets from more than 25 countries.

The collection started in the early 1990s wh…

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