“Museums are custodians of epiphanies”*…
Located on the campus of Georgia Southern University, the U.S. National Tick Collection is the world’s largest curated tick collection
Just one of the extraordinarily-specific museums– from umbrella covers to pencil sharpeners– one will find at “The Ultimate List of Wonderfully Specific Museums.”
* George Lois
###
As we defer to the docent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1964, on the eve of a get-together, that T.S. Eliot wrote his pen pal Groucho Marx: “the picture of you in the newspapers saying that… you have come to London to see me has greatly enhanced my credit in the neighbourhood, and particularly with the greengrocer across the street. Obviously I am now someone of importance.”
More on their unlikely friendship here and here.
