Museum of
Ordinary ThingsA little attention changes everything.
A yellow audio cassette on a light background.
The collectionExhibit No. 009

A small soundtrack

Side B is for the way home.

Ninety minutes, recorded one song at a time.

The story behind the object
The storysincere

Making this tape took an entire Saturday. I sat beside the radio with one finger on the record button, waiting for a song I could never remember the name of.

There are awkward silences between the tracks. A weather forecast appears halfway through side A. At the end, you can hear someone calling me for dinner.

I no longer have a player. I can still hear exactly where each song begins.

A fictional story, written for this sample exhibit.

What ordinary thing would you keep?

Make an exhibit of your own

Fictional sample exhibit · Back to the collection

Photograph by Marlon Medau / Unsplash ↗

A closer look · The full photograph

A yellow audio cassette on a light background.

An ordinary thing, given extraordinary attention.

The Museum of Ordinary Things

Nothing ordinary
about what we keep.

A ticket. A chipped cup. A watch that no longer works. Some objects matter for reasons no label can quite explain. This is a place to try.

This early exhibit explores how a photograph and a few words can give an everyday thing extraordinary attention.

Create an exhibit with your own photograph and words. Save it privately, then choose when to publish it. The two stories in our sample exhibit are fictional.