Little Museums: Over 1,000 Small (And Not-So-Small) American Showplaces - Softcover

Arany, Lynne; Hobson, Archie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805048235 ISBN 13: 9780805048230

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

The definitive guide to the most interesting, amusing, and surprising collections in America.

With listings that leave no source unexplored, this clever directory is the first in-depth popular guide to more than 1,000 small museums. Its listing of archives ranging from the utterly informal to the most diligently organized, labeled, and catalogued, from displays of celebrity shoes to the work of visionary artists, provides a picture of the American landscape that is rich in quirky details.

In Little Museums, you will find the listings that tourist literature does not provide, including the Barbie Hall of Fame in Palo Alto, California, the Dog Mushing Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska; the Museum of Ordinary People in Hurtsboro, Alabama; the 24Hour Church of Elvis in Portland, Arizona; and the last freak show left in America--at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore. A virtual museums listing means you don't even have to leave home to visit a little museum, and a category index makes finding museums devoted to your favorite subjects even easier. Little Museums is for anyone who hates to miss a unique opportunity along the byways and urban centers of America.

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Review:

Forget about your Picassos and Cézannes. What you really need to know is where the Mustard Museum is (answer: Mount Horeb, Wisconsin--displaying some 1,700 kinds of mustard) or the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (downtown Minneapolis). Thanks to the research of Lynne Arany and Archie Hobson, the country's bizarre and obscure museums--including the Barbie Hall of Fame and the Goodyear World of Rubber collections--are collected in one magnificent, if somewhat strange, volume. It canvasses the back roads and major highways of the U.S., is organized alphabetically by state, and includes an index by category as well as an index to virtual museum Web sites. Useful for the traveler who wants an alternative to the main drag or seeks destination inspiration, Little Museums provides good perusal fodder and armchair travel as well. --Stephanie Gold

From the Back Cover:

Along the superhighways and backwood roads of America--in megametropolises and one-horse towns--hundreds of little museums are ripe for discovery. Little Museums unlocks the doors to the most unusual, historical, educational, obscure, and downright bizarre collections in all fifty states. Complete with Web sites, exact directions, and invaluable tips on when to go and what to know, Little Museums is by far the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide available. This witty and insightful compendium is a must-have for your next road trip--by car or by armchair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805048235
• ISBN 13: 9780805048230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464