About The Museum

    • Most visitors spend up to 60 minutes exploring the museum, though this can vary depending on exhibitions and personal pace.

    • Being open only on weekends means that our small gallery space can sometimes get quite full with visitors. If you would like a more personal museum experience, we offer private tours during the week. Visit our website’s tour section for more information.

    • Gallery staff are present and available to help answer questions during your visit. You are encouraged to move through the museum at your own pace and take breaks as needed.

  • We are taking active steps to ensure the MOTTAF is as accessible as possible to any and all guests.

    Currently, our museum entrance is at the top of a set of stairs. We have in our possession a stair-chair to assist wheelchair users and others who may prefer not to take the stairs for safety and comfort reasons. We hope to install this accessibility tool within the coming months.

    Seating is available in certain points around the gallery, and as needed.

    Service animals are welcome.

    For accessibility questions or to request accommodations in advance of your visit, please contact:

    Doran Hamm & Tabitha Celani

    museumoftiny@gmail.com

    • We have provided a sensory exploration table for guests who might like to experience the exhibits in a more hands-on way. Our touch-table includes numerous small items of varying textures and origins, all to be played with and investigated. Also provided are materials for guests to add a portrait to our miniature portrait wall if they so desire.

    • The museum itself is on the lower level of the Hooker Dunham building, home to various tenants and businesses which may contribute to ambient sounds throughout the museum.

    • Our overhead train makes some noise, which may be startling if the museum is otherwise quiet.

    • Lighting comes from various overhead gallery track lights, and the museum is windowless due to its underground location.

The “Museum of things tiny & found” is just that: a museum of things, tiny and found. It is the home for wayward little objects, with places for every item, and nooks for every tiny; for we all find ourselves in the tiniest of things. Founded by Professor Joelseph Pumpernickle Klein-hamm in 2024, this museum is a collection of things found throughout the years and a collaboration with other tiny collectors and miniature institutions. The museum itself is somewhere between a junk drawer, an antique shop and a museum. A “Junkshopieum” if you will.

Nothing in this collection has been purchased online, nor procured outside the description of the term found. There may be tinier things in the world, but never a collection such as this has been assembled the world wide.

As such, the combined passions and aesthetic vision of the curation team lends itself to an experience veering both into antiquity and the dollhouses of old, and the modern yet nostalgic feel of small toys and contemporary artistry.

Our curation team and contributors alike hope to illuminate within guests the whimsicality that lives in all our hearts, no matter how small.

Meet our fiscal sponsor

The Museum of Things Tiny and Found has been supported from the onset by our sister museum, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

Without their generosity and encouragement, the road to opening the museum would have been a long and arduous one, and their dedication to helping this entity take shape is something we take to heart.

‍ ‍“…BMAC brings notable art and artists to Brattleboro and provides a platform for our region’s many artistic talents.”

To learn more about our generous sponsor and to see their current exhibits please visit their website, or take a stroll just down the road and stop in for a look!

Meet our Curators

Founder Baron Joelseph Pumpernickle Klein-hamm and his fine troupe of caretakers have delicately sourced and curated this expansive array of miniature ephemera to display to the eager public. Here is a little bit more about them!

Professor Joelseph Pumpernickle Kleinhamm. Born April 16th, 2015. Professor Joelseph Pumpernickle Kleinhamm was born to the streets, a poor waif, but was taken in by kind eccentrics in the town of Brattleboro Vermont at the age of four. These Eccentrics, Doran Danger Hamm & Sandra Klein, had a love of maximalism and tiny objects and fostered this in Joelseph, and thus Joelseph's obsession grew. He went on to receive no less than five degrees in Snackology, Zoomology, Playology, Snuggleomics and Curation. He started teaching miniature courses in his free time to others by pushing small things off of tables and shelves, as a way of giving back. It was during this time that a dream grew. What if he could provide miniatures to the people, for free? “The Museum of Things Tiny and Found” was founded there and then, and presented to you here dear reader.

Dory’s bio coming soon!

Tabitha C. is a Brattleboro, Vermont local and co-curator of the museum. Along with working with silver and small mammal taxidermy, Tabitha’s artistic career has serendipitously landed them here. Their miniature work is a cobbling together of handmade objects and reworked existing miniatures, often using plants and animals to develop a feeling of intimacy between flora, fauna, and home. Tabitha is deeply inspired by 19th century decor, medieval persuasions, gothic ephemera, the brutality of nature, and the luster of brass.