Tinkertown Museum
About Tinkertown Museum
The Tinkertown Museum is a folk art museum in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The museum was founded by artist Ross Ward, and feature's Ward's hand-carved miniature Old West town, as well as a hand-carved circus, a collection of over 280 wedding cake toppers, tools, and other oddities, Ward's Jeep decorated in bottle caps and pennies, and a 35 foot antique sailboat, Theodora R, which circumnavigated the world from 1981 to 1991, piloted by Fritz Damler. The museum has
been described as the "jumbled reflections of a wildly creative mind", and an "Americana wonderland of oddities".
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 9.5 miles of Tinkertown Museum; the closest, Commemorative Air Force, is about 6.9 miles away.
