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The Mini Museum is both a principle and a place.
The principle: discovery comes before knowledge. Wonder precedes learning. Curiosity is sparked not by explanation, but by encounter — with the real, the rare, the survived.
The place: anywhere. A corner of a library, the back of a classroom, the lobby of a school office. History should not be confined to great halls and marble pillars.
The Great War Exhibition · Origins · The Founding Collection
The Mini Museum is both a principle and a place.
The principle: discovery comes before knowledge. Wonder precedes learning. Curiosity is sparked not by explanation, but by encounter — with the real, the rare, the survived.
The place: anywhere. A corner of a library, the back of a classroom, the lobby of a school office. History should not be confined to great halls and marble pillars.
The Great War Exhibition
Moondust from Lunar Meteorite Adrar 013 · Origins · The Founding Collection
The Exhibition
Each month, a new historical collection. Real artifacts. Primary sources. A WWI soldier's helmet. Moon dust from a lunar meteorite. A Victorian needle case. A first edition book from the Harlem Renaissance.
The objects are authentic. The scholarship is rigorous. The presentation mirrors the care of the world's great museums — only on a smaller scale.
Mini exhibitions, big history.
The Exhibition
Each month, a new historical collection. Real artifacts. Primary sources. A WWI soldier's helmet. Moon dust from a lunar meteorite. A Victorian needle case. A first edition book from the Harlem Renaissance.
The objects are authentic. The scholarship is rigorous. The presentation mirrors the care of the world's great museums — only on a smaller scale.
Mini exhibitions, big history.
Lunar Meteorite Adrar 013
Every child deserves to walk into a room and feel what it's like to stand before history itself. And every school, every teacher should have the opportunity to provide this.
No field trip required. No admission fee. No distance between the student and the thing that survived.
The Vision
The Mini Museum began in one school library in Central Texas. It was never meant to end there. Each exhibition is built to travel.
Imagine them all in motion. A network of monthly exhibitions circulating through schools and libraries across the country. A classroom in rural Oklahoma. A library in suburban Florida. A vestibule in small-town Maine.
Not everyone can get to the great museums. So the museum comes to them.
WWII Letters · Origins · The Founding Collection
Apply to host. Receive the collection. Pass it on.
History shouldn't require a plane ticket. It should be waiting in the next room.