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this fits the bill."
current era, a time filled with a
Although he claims not
plethora of advertising mediums
to have a favorite off-
including the Internet, infomer-
beat museum, sort
cials and television.
of a creme de la
"The curator there is a
creme of the odd-
major part of the show,"
balls, Rubin said
Rubin said. "He loves
he has a certain
showing off the devices.
fondness for the
• He is a real character."
Barney Smith Toilet
Although the book
Seat Art Museum in
includes a museum dedi-
San Antonio, Texas.
cated to the Chinese
The museum, housed in
immigration experience,
Smith's garage, came
there is nothing specifically
about because Smith corn-
devoted to the Jewish
bined his profession as a master
American experience.
plumber with his
However, Rubin said
From the Barney Smith
penchant for creating
he ran into items of
Toilet Seat Art Museum:
folk art.
Jewish interest in sev-
A new meaning to toilet training: eral museums. Some
Smith'began his
art form after netting
of those sites include:
a set of deer antlers during a successful
• The toilet lids in Barney Smith's
hunting expedition in 1970. He glued
Toilet Seat Art Museum in San
the bony appendages to a lid that
Antonio, Texas.
reminded him of a plaque. His collec-
• Artifacts from the life of Harry
tion now numbers 375 lids with sub-
Houdini (nee Ehrich Weiss), including
jects varying from a memorial to the
a milk can and strait jacket from
spaceship Challenger to the Hebrew
which he escaped during various
alphabet, from a ring
shows, on perma-
of barbed wire from
nent display at the
World War II death
Harry Houdini
camps to a Christian
Historical Center in
Crusader-themed
Appleton, Wis.
• Works by serial
piece made of pop-
bottle caps in the
killer David "Son of
Sam" Berkowitz and
shape of a cross.
several other serial
Rubin said the art
killers at the
has turned into an
Museum of Death
education for some -
in San Diego, Calif.
museum visitors,
particularly when
• George Gershwin's
piano, owned by the
they see -such "dis-
late Liberate, is on
plays as the Hebrew
display in a museum
alphabet and the
dedicated to the
barbed wire.
flashy entertainer in
"There isn't a
Las Vegas, Nev.
huge Jewish popula-
• The likeness of
tion in that area and
Barbra Streisand
this may be the only
painted vid'air brush
exposure to anything Give 'em hell, Harry. The Houdini
Jewish," he said. "It
Historical Center explores the escape on a cake top at the
Mini Cake Museum
is a great way to
challenges of the famous magician.
in Pasadena, Calif.
teach these concepts
Frances Kuyper, the
if people can first
curator and cake maker at the museum,
overcome the fact that they are on a
recently appeared on the "Howie
toilet lid."
Mandell Show" and presented the new
And sometimes it was the curator
gabber with a cake decorated with his
and not the collection that was of
likeness. D
interest.
Take Robert McCoy of the
Museum of Questionable Medical
Offbeat Museums: The Collections
Devices in Minneapolis. A former
and Curators of America's Most
printer, steel salesman, Humanist min-
Unusual Museums, by Saul Rubin,
ister, soap seller and operator of a fam-
is available in some major book-
ily planning clinic, McCoy insists that
stores or through the publisher at
the heyday of Medical quackery is the
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