Museum of
Ordinary ThingsA little attention changes everything.
An open notebook with a pen resting across its pages.
The collectionExhibit No. 007

Unfinished business

Still a few pages left.

A notebook with more beginnings than endings.

The story behind the object
The storysincere

The first page was supposed to explain what this notebook was for. I left it blank until I could think of something important enough.

The rest filled up anyway. Bus times. A cake recipe. Three different plans for the same weekend. A sentence I overheard and wanted to borrow.

There are a few pages left. I like that it still expects something of me. The first one is staying blank.

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

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A closer look · The full photograph

An open notebook with a pen resting across its pages.

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.