For once, I will come out in favor of hoarding – as long as it’s in someone else’s attic.
The Hill Top General Store in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, is a very humble museum. They have everything from collections of old tools, a room of vinyl records (including the songs of Stevie Wonder, as performed by the Motor City Rollers), a gathering of toy ponies, to a small group of Elvis memorabalia. And there’s much more, held in a fairly small collection of rooms.
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I’m glad this place exists. Many people would enter the door and promptly turn around to leave. But I savored every moment of browsing (and photo-gathering). How wonderful that this room of records exists, even though no one will ever listen to them again. I applaud the creativity of Ms. Hill Top, as she carefully arranged the ponies on a shelf behind a painting that the ponies would love to wander into.
Thirty years from now, all of this may be in a land fill. But I am glad that my daughter and I had the opportunity to visit this eclectic landmark. (The rest of my family also visited, but their enjoyment level was not quite the same.)
(“Part 9” is simply an estimate. I don’t know how many posts I’ve written actually relate to the topic. You can see at least some of those posts here and here.)
Wasn’t there a museum in Oxford that was a similar idea? Lots of “stuff” arranged in little rooms, you could browse for hours and were even allowed to actually touch things?
Hi Deb. The only museum in Oxford that I remember is the Ashmolean: http://www.ashmolean.org/. I’m not sure about the ability to touch things, but I do remember seeing something like three Stradivarius violins/viola(s) in one small room!