Even though thre Michael's Museum BLOG is inactive, it has been getting a lot of hits. I assume it is because more people are home and because Chicago Children's Museum is closed during the COVID 19 times. Even though inactive, there are many fun things to scroll back through. Also check out my Michael's Museum site: http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures at Chicago Children's Museum
Although this BLOG is currently not active, scroll back through the blog to see a GREAT deal about the history of a SMALL place known as Michael's Museum, a collection of over 105 collections of tiny treasures. Now a permanent exhibit at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier. All text entries and photographs copyrighted. Request permission to use from info@michaelsmuseum.org
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Happy Hanukkah
Hello and thanks to all who continue to visit this BLOG. As you can see, I do not post regularly or even frequently but there are a lot of wonderful archive photos and entries to scroll back through. You can also visit:
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelsMuseum/
and http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
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and http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Thanks For Visiting!
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and http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Miniatures From Thread and Embroidery Hoops
Even though the page is not active, I still receive feedback from visitors and LIKE's, so Thank You for visiting. There is a wealth of information and photos here to look through and you can also visit http://www.michaelsmusuem.org
Every now and then I find something "miniature" of interest and will post:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/01/miniature-embroideries-by-ipnot/ (opens in a new window)
Every now and then I find something "miniature" of interest and will post:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/01/miniature-embroideries-by-ipnot/ (opens in a new window)
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
December 2017
Greetings as we approach Christmas 2017. I rarely post here but wanted to wish my followers Happy and Merry. Even though the page is not active, I still receive feedback from visitors and LIKE's, so Thank You for visiting. There is a wealth of information and photos here to look through and you can also visit http://www.michaelsmusuem.org
Pictured is the "Z Scale" train set which is new this year on my desk.
Pictured is a Victorian Style Christmas Tree which is also new this year.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Happy Fifth Birthday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures is celebrating its FIFTH birthday during May 2016.P.S. I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so scroll back through time and enjoy!
Friday, April 1, 2016
Happy Anniversary
P.S. I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so enjoy!
Nine years ago, on April 1, 2007; an article appeared in the Q-Section of the Chicago Tribune, written by Barbara Mahany. It began a landslide process of love. with the support of Amethel Parel-Sewell, Louise Belmont Skinner, Barbara Unikel, Jennifer Farrington, and Gregory Maire which led to “Michael’s Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures” which in May, 2011 became a beloved, permanent exhibit at the Chicago Children’s Museum on Navy Pier. Happy April Fools Day! Happy Michael’s Museum! Happy Anniversary!
Nine years ago, on April 1, 2007; an article appeared in the Q-Section of the Chicago Tribune, written by Barbara Mahany. It began a landslide process of love. with the support of Amethel Parel-Sewell, Louise Belmont Skinner, Barbara Unikel, Jennifer Farrington, and Gregory Maire which led to “Michael’s Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures” which in May, 2011 became a beloved, permanent exhibit at the Chicago Children’s Museum on Navy Pier. Happy April Fools Day! Happy Michael’s Museum! Happy Anniversary!
Monday, December 21, 2015
Merry Christmas 2015
Wishing all my Michael's Museum blog friends a Joyous Christmas. Even though we no longer post here regularly, scroll back through the blog to see lovely little photographs of the collections and to read interesting stories about how Michael's Museum arrived at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier in May 2011.
Monday, May 25, 2015
4th ANNIVERSARY of MM @ CCM!
Michael’s Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures is celebrating its 4th birthday during May! Happy Anniversary.
Fondly
Michael
P.S. I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so enjoy!
P.S. I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so enjoy!
Monday, March 16, 2015
A Post Every Now and Then
Can't resist posting small things every now and then:
Miniature Space is a special kitchen in Japan that does all of its cooking in tiny toy kitchens, creating real, edible meals that fit in the palm of your hand. Their latest masterpiece? A tiny strawberry cake.
The best part is that they use miniature tools in the kitchen, too – miniature knives to cut slices of strawberry, miniature tongs, and a miniature spatula to spread the frosting.
http://www.boredpanda.com/tiny-cakes-toy-kitchen-miniature-space/Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Cooper Hewitt
Every now and then I find something interesting about miniatures to post like this "Cooper Hewitt Object of the Day."
I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so enjoy!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 2014
Every now and then I like to post. I am pleased that so many people visit this site even though I do not update regularly. There are, however, many wonderful stories and photos to see, so enjoy!
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
COMING SOON: Michael's Flea Circus: The Greatest Small Show on Earth
Sometimes I just have to post:
A new old time, greatest small idea has been itching in my head ...
I have been enthused with the idea of Flea Circuses for over thirty years and finally have begun producing one of my own.
The circus will have singing, dancing, and performing fleas; as well as slight of hand (magic,) and audience participation to entertain, enchant, and entice you!
Madam Midge and Madam Madge will walk the high wire carrying a carefully balanced, balance beam, Monsieur Marvin will jump off the high, high dive into a small pool of water. Monsieur Mervin will fly on the flying trapeze.
The Flea Circus will also feature Strong Man Sam who will be shot from a cannon and Strong Woman Samantha who will carry a boulder across the center ring on her shoulder.
Since this One Ring Circus is a small operation, the fleas will also double as grounds keepers, ticket takers, refreshment booth operators, and gift shop cashiers.
The price of admission will be one thin dime or a contribution of your choice to The Lieberman Center Memory Care Facility in Skokie, Illinois.
Come one, come all! Ladies and Gentlement: Be Amazed, Be Amused, Be Astounded. Feel the Magic. Experience the Joy. Michael's Flea Circus, coming soon to a town near you!
Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is usually no longer active, Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Small Treasures is still one of the wonderful permanent exhibits at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier. On this BLOG, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
A new old time, greatest small idea has been itching in my head ...
Michael's Flea Circus!
The circus will have singing, dancing, and performing fleas; as well as slight of hand (magic,) and audience participation to entertain, enchant, and entice you!
Madam Midge and Madam Madge will walk the high wire carrying a carefully balanced, balance beam, Monsieur Marvin will jump off the high, high dive into a small pool of water. Monsieur Mervin will fly on the flying trapeze.
The Flea Circus will also feature Strong Man Sam who will be shot from a cannon and Strong Woman Samantha who will carry a boulder across the center ring on her shoulder.
Since this One Ring Circus is a small operation, the fleas will also double as grounds keepers, ticket takers, refreshment booth operators, and gift shop cashiers.
The price of admission will be one thin dime or a contribution of your choice to The Lieberman Center Memory Care Facility in Skokie, Illinois.
Come one, come all! Ladies and Gentlement: Be Amazed, Be Amused, Be Astounded. Feel the Magic. Experience the Joy. Michael's Flea Circus, coming soon to a town near you!
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Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is usually no longer active, Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Small Treasures is still one of the wonderful permanent exhibits at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier. On this BLOG, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
Friday, September 19, 2014
Sometimes ... Post Cards for Ants
Sometimes I just have to post:
Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is no longer active, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
(Post Cards For Ants)
Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is no longer active, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Every Now and Then
Hi. Every now and then I do post something new to this website having to do with Tiny Treasures. Here is one for you to check out:
http://www.messynessychic.com/category/inspiration-vault/teeny-tiny-stuff/
Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is no longer active, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you really want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
http://www.messynessychic.com/category/inspiration-vault/teeny-tiny-stuff/
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For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you really want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Winter is Almost Over
Hi and thanks for visiting this BLOG. Although it is no longer active, you will find many wonderful stories and photographs here as you seek to see more and learn more about Michael's Museum: A Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures.
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you really want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
For more, also visit the Michael's Museum Web Site. CLICK HERE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org
If you really want to own part of MM, you can go on www.lulu.com and purchase "The Story of Michael's Museum." CLICK HERE to go to "lulu" to see and/or purchase it.
Thanks for visiting,
Michael
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Merry Christmas
While this BLOG is inactive, I do like to say HI! now and then.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR
Michael sure does look a lot like Santa!
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thanks Viewers Like You
Even though this site has been inactive (but chock full of interesting posts and pixs) we have reached 11,100 hits! Thanks for tuning in.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
A Belated Thank You
AFTER READING THIS ENTRY,
BE SURE TO BROWSE BACK
TO SEE ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING
While I have not been posting to this BLOG, we still get 5 to 15 hits a day. We are currently at 8500 hits and counting since 2010. People come to this place to see photos and read the stories of Michael's Museum and how it came to be.
I continue to be grateful to the people at Chicago Children's Museum for helping me to bring the joys of collecting and the magic of the Tiny Treasures that are Michael's Museum to the families and friends and children and visitors of the Chicago Land Area.
Over the years I have thanked many people for their involvement in helping Michael's Museum come to be. There is embarrassingly one person who deserves a HUGE thank you which I have not delivered. Until now. I just realized that he is probably in line for having deserved the FIRST thank you!
My dear friend Roger Zanchetti (who I have known for over 30 years) was helping out with a garage sale at our home back in 2007. When Barbara Mahany and Blair Kamen walked in, Roger recognized them right away. At the time Blair was the Architecture Critic for the Chicago Tribune and Barbara (they are a husband and wife) wrote about interesting, unusual things around Chicago in the Sunday Q Secion of that paper.
Because of Roger's making us aware of who these people were, we approached them and introduced ourselves. Blair recognized Gregory and his architecture work around the city. They admitted that they did not really come to the garage sale but were very interested in our loft building which held Gregory's architecture firm on the first floor (now retired,) and our home on the second and third level.
The third level guest room also housed "Michael's Museum" which held my collections in the room designed for me by Gregory. Barbara fell in love with the space and within a few months she and I had set up a number of meetings in which she visited the museum, interviewed me about collecting, and wrote a wonderful article which appeared in the newspaper on APRIL FOOL'S DAY, 2007.
That article began the chain of events that eventually led to the opening, as a permanent exhibit, of Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures in May 2010. The exhibit has since become a favorite of visitors to Chicago Children's Museum and Navy Pier.
If it wasn't for Roger having been at our garage sale (besides the wonderful help he gave us) most likely MM@CCM would never have happened.
T H A N K Y O U R O G E R!
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Two Years Ago
My Opening Day Ceremonies Address
I retired from education fifteen years ago after thirty years of teaching. I thought I was finished with children. Well, guess what? I am back ... and I am excited to be back.
At times like this, it is customary to thank all the
people who have helped make something possible . . . Here is my CHRONOLOGY OF THANK YOU’S.
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Jennifer Farrington, then Vice President of Education at CCM, now CEO, in turn introduced me to Louise Belmont-Skinner ... Vice President of Exhibits.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Two Years Old
Congratulations Michael's Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures on your second anniversary as a permanent exhibit at Chicago Children's Museum. May 2011 to May 2013.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
From the Curator's Desk
As promised, we have shown you a collection a day covering our 105 Curious Collections of Tiny Treasures and now our showing is complete. Be sure to scroll back through the blog to visit previous posts.
With this completion we would like to announce that:
As of November 1, 2012, Michael will retire from being Curator-in-Residence and become Curator Emeritus (emeritus |iˈmerətəs| adjective | of the former holder of an office having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honor.)
The wonderful collection of collections called Michael's Museum will carry on as a permanent exhibit at Chicago Children's Museum. The only differences are that Michael will no longer be spending regularly scheduled time in the exhibit and the collections will not only be owned by Chicago Children's Museum but also under their complete care.
This BLOG michaelcollects.blogspot.com and the MM SITE http://www.michaelsmuseum.org will NOT be updated actively and will become reference only. You can still visit the BLOG and SITE to see photographs and read about the history and creation of this new "Wonder of the Windy City, Chicago's own Michael's Museum."
If you would like to get in touch with Michael, feel free to e-mail him at info@michaelsmuseum.org
Here is a brief note from Michael to all of Michael's Museum's family, friends, and fans,
Since my first introduction to Jennifer Farrington, Louise Belmont-Skinner, and Shelia Scullin and with special mention of my work with Jenny Schrider since May of 2007, it has been a great ride. I take joy in knowing that my collections are in CCM’s good hands. I am so pleased to have had the opportunity to be part of the planning, design, and installation process of Michael’s Museum and to have had the opportunity of working with so many loving, creative, and talented CCM people.
I am overwhelmed at how well tens of thousands of visitors to CCM have received our Tiny Treasures and taken home with them some of the exhibit’s magic and joy in ways never imagined. I know that Michael’s Museum will continue to amuse, amaze, and astound CCM visitors from the greater Chicago area, across the nation, and around the world as it has been doing since its opening in May 2011.
I look forward periodically to visiting CCM and know that I will continue to be welcomed with the compliments, recognition, and love that the exhibit creates. I look forward to having the time and space to follow my other loves: writing, photography, acting ... and of course ... continued collecting of tiny treasures.
Fondly,
Michael A. Horvich, Curator-in-Residence now Curator EmeritusMichael’s Museum: A Curious Collection of Tiny Treasures @ CCM
Curator's Supplies Collection.
These items were on the curator's desk when it was still in Michael's home.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Collection Pix
The Tower: Back
Wagons, Native Americans, Ganesh, Grandpa Max, Pre-Colombian Reproductions, Day of the Dead, Eric's Gazebo, Day of the Dead Family Celebration Alter.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Collection Pix
The Tower: Front Side
Houses, Asian Art, Curators Supplies, Rhinestone,
Spool Drawers, Boxes, & Beads Collections
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