Museum of
Ordinary ThingsA little attention changes everything.
An assortment of colourful yarn wound into balls.
The collectionExhibit No. 019

Learning by making

A future scarf.

Several balls of yarn and a manageable amount of ambition.

The story behind the object
The storysincere

I bought enough yarn for a scarf and confidently refused the beginner’s booklet. By evening, I had made a dense triangle.

My neighbour showed me how to undo it. We sat together while I tried again, counting stitches aloud and occasionally losing count because we were talking.

The finished scarf has a crooked edge. I wear it every winter. The leftover yarn is waiting for our next lesson.

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 June Gathercole / Unsplash ↗

A closer look · The full photograph

An assortment of colourful yarn wound into balls.

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.