Tinkertown Museum
Folk art museum in Sandia Park, New Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Tinkertown Museum[1] 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,[2] 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.[3][4] The museum has been described as the "jumbled reflections of a wildly creative mind",[5] and an "Americana wonderland of oddities".[6]