Mmuseumm — Attraction in New York

This was a serendipitous find for me when I was wandering around Tribeca. Apparently, this is the smallest museum in New York City has been around for several years during the warmer months. I think I was told from April until October.

Each shelf in the walk-in closet size space holds a different tiny, but powerful exhibit. For example, the receipts from last meals of death row inmates. Another was replicas of ISIS currency that the founder created from photos he found on the darknet. A particularly heartbreaking exhibit included items held by people of color when they were gunned down and killed by the police with their photos and how many bullets were shot.

The docent is sitting on the chair outside the museum was very thorough in explaining the details of the exhibitions. Down the street there's a little tiny gift store as well. This is totally worth...

Mmuseumm is a six by six by six shrine to the weird, packed into a former freight elevator in Tribeca. Thirty six square feet, glowing shelves, and a peephole you can stare through any hour like a raccoon with taste. Weekends they open the door, Friday through Sunday, eleven to six, 4 Cortlandt Alley if you want the full hit. They call it object journalism, little seasons of micro shows that make you feel like the city keeps its best stories in a cigar box. Past gems include a Happy Meal from Iran, a bottle of Trump vodka, and a set of last meal receipts that will ruin your appetite in a good way. There is even a hotline so you can call and hear what you are looking at, which feels both low tech and perfect. It started in 2012 with Alex Kalman and the Safdie brothers, and it still feels like they built a museum out of a punchline and then...

Greatly curated items packed into such a tiny location. Super original! Through the objects on display and aided by the thoughtful descriptions, you can picture a whole life, a whole history. This isn’t a whole day at the museum experience so plan other things if you’re making a special trip downtown (we went to the MOCA afterwards) but its impact lingers with you. The guy working there was super nice, helpful and informative. The collection changes periodically so we’ll be...