Saturday, January 10, 2009

World's Smallest Museum



The lime green and red website is confronting but it goes with the museum.
http://www.worldssmallestmuseum.com
Arizona claims to have the world’s smallest museum. The west side of the roof is made out of 1800 aluminium beer cans. It seems drinking is encouraged to build up a supply of building materials should the east, north and south sides of the roof start leaking.

A highlight of the museum’s exhibitions is the collection of US Presidential campaign buttons of every Democratic & Republican nominee since World War II. The museum proudly claims these are authentic buttons. Perhaps there is a market for fakes.

To me the real highlight would be meeting the museum’s famous visitor who regularly drops in – Ricky Raven. A treat is meeting his wife Rickette and the little one, Ricky Jr. I wonder if they had a baby naming competition that is popular in zoos?

I stopped by at the shop and was tempted to buy a Highway 60 mug celebrating the 80th anniversary of America’s first coast to coast highway. It was only $5.99. I wonder if that is because they are now out of date? The anniversary was in 2006.

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