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Tinkertown Museum

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Tinkertown Museum
Tinkertown Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Tinkertown Museum is a folk art museum in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The museum was founded by artist Ross Ward, and feature's Ward's hand-carved miniature Old West town, as well as a hand-carved circus, a collection of over 280 wedding cake toppers, tools, and other oddities, Ward's Jeep decorated in bottle caps and pennies, and a 35 foot antique sailboat, Theodora R, which circumnavigated the world from 1981 to 1991, piloted by Fritz Damler. The museum has

been described as the "jumbled reflections of a wildly creative mind", and an "Americana wonderland of oddities".

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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