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Location
What you should know
Parking
Free parking available
Visitor tip
Read the exhibit notes carefully — some themes won't make sense until you do. Plan to spend about one hour to fully understand and appreciate the unique collections.
Best time
Visit on a weekday or during off-peak times if you prefer a quieter experience to fully absorb the unusual exhibits about everyday life artifacts like historical tooth brushing items, pocket contents, and stain history.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Museum of Everyday Life
- Highlights
- Historical everyday artifacts, personal care items, pocket and suitcase contents across decades
- Admission
- Donation-based
- Visit Duration
- Approximately 1 hour
What visitors say
We stumbled upon on this place on our drive south from canada. Its like no other museum you will have visited before and self service. The attention to detail is very impressive and the themes it covers are certainly very different.…
The owners was very unfriendly and unpleasant. Was a cool museum, but very cold. It really felt unwelcoming for a museum open to the public. I followed all rules, parking, and signs. This is a help yourself type of museum. Turn lights…
A quaint collection of, as the name suggests, everyday life. This museum walks the line between weird collection of random things and actual informative museum nicely. To me the little things we barely notice would be great to…
From 175 Google reviews
Did You Know?
- The museum features an unusual collection focused on everyday life artifacts, including exhibits dedicated to the history of tooth brushing and the contents of people's pockets and suitcases throughout history
- The Museum of Everyday Life operates as a self-service, visitor-controlled museum where guests manually turn lights on upon arrival and off upon departure, making visitors responsible for the museum's basic operations
- The museum is entirely donation-based for funding, with upkeep depending on visitor contributions, and the curators note exhibits where items have been stolen, highlighting vulnerability of the collection
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