In one of my last posts I mentioned I have been a pet sitter for over a decade. Once in awhile I get a crazy cat lady (shocker…I know) who lives in a house that should be featured on Hoarders. One customer literally lived in a um, store/museum/warehouse. Her entire...
Horse-drawn delivery vehicles get the attention they fully deserve at the Thrasher Carriage Museum in Frostburg, Maryland. I know…I know. Sometimes I stay up late at night worried there are not enough museums about this subject. Thank god someone like Mr. James Thrasher had the foresight to begin collecting them...
I’ve been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation lately. Of course you do not need to know this information at all. But after reading about Charles Lummis (a man with many talents who also had a strong interest in women and drink) I couldn’t help but think of the...
This is probably the best example of collecting gone too far. The story goes that this couple named Fred and Myrtle, who lived in a tiny town called Bluff, started collecting paua shells. There were so many that they nailed them to the walls. When Fred and Myrtle died, their...
Christmas Museum Week Day #3 continues with what the season is all about…buying lots of stuff. Cartoonist Tim Hollis of Dora, Alabama is the go-to guy when it comes to pop culture ephemera. He has a two-story museum addition attached to the back of his house with an entrance through...
“Century Photo Centre,” from “the Dye Transfer Portfolio from Analogue,” 1998-2007 Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City A 2008 exhibit at the New York Public Library was about the photographer’s proprietary claim to the urban landscape.
If you’re like my uncle, then you’re probably watching the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story on TBS quoting lines before they’re even said while sitting next to a leg lamp. Did you know there is A Christmas Story House Museum where the movie was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio?...
If you’ve been following this blog long enough, then you know I’m obsessed with pocket-sized museums (see here and here if you don’t believe me). So I’ve made the executive decision to declare August 8th through 12th “Tiny Museum Week” because why the hell not? Enjoy! In an itty bitty...
It always seems like this blog is trying to find the winner of the “World’s Tiniest Museum” - whether it’s the Red Telephone Box Museum or Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie or the Micro-Mµseum or the Hoosesagg Museum, there’s some stiff competition all over the world. Well, it looks like we might...
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of talking about houses. Thank god historic house museum week is over. But before we move on, let me tell you about one of the best house museums I’ve ever visited, if you can call it that…Sir John Soane’s Museum probably belongs...
