Museum of
Ordinary ThingsA little attention changes everything.
A wooden kitchen spoon resting on a neutral surface.
The collectionExhibit No. 010

From the kitchen

A measure of enough.

One wooden spoon. No written quantities.

The story behind the object
The storysincere

I asked her how much to add. She held up this spoon, looked at the pan, and said I would know. This was not the precise instruction I had hoped for.

For years, I thought cooking meant remembering her measurements. It turns out she was watching, tasting, and changing her mind.

The spoon lives beside my cooker now. I still use a measuring jug. I am also getting better at knowing.

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 Louis Hansel / Unsplash ↗

A closer look · The full photograph

A wooden kitchen spoon resting on a neutral surface.

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.