Dear Fellow Lover of Museums —
We at The Museum of Museums firmly believe that museums, for all the honoring they do of other museums, deserve to be honored themselves.
Museums are the unsung heroes of our history and culture.
The list of museums attached below — 39,980 museums across the country — has been said to be the most comprehensive directory of our country’s actively operational museums ever assembled. It’s definitely the only list with made-up descriptions for museums in cases where we could not surface a real description.
Fabricated descriptions are marked with an asterisk. Everything else is true.
Also, after vigorous debate, though mostly because our lawyer insisted, we did not invent descriptions for museums concerned with sensitive topics such as war, genocide, slavery, tribal history, ethnicities, or religion. Too bad; we had material.
If you know of an active museum that’s not listed here, or if you spot any incorrect information, let us know and we’ll update it within one hour.
And remember: Now museum, now you don’t.
—Chad Barker
Museum Curator
The Museum of Museums
p.s. Exciting news! We’ll soon open the physical location of The Museum of Museums. The project is in stealth mode and security is a factor, so we cannot yet reveal the location or timing, But, rest assured, it’ll be great. Subscribe to this Substack to receive updates.
Audience of One is where things get made for a single person. Everything here was built to make one specific reader laugh, and that reader is never named — so anyone who finds it is free to suspect it might be them. The work is deliberately disproportionate to its purpose: forty thousand museums on one page, a 1,518-page thesis on ornamental shrimp of which one chapter exists. The concept, the development and the execution are the enjoyment, and the only measure is whether the person it was for laughed.
For more, visit omnipolar.ai/s/audience-of-one