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A Tool By Any Other Name

May 16, 2008

A headline came across the wire services this morning from the Los Angeles Times: “Hammer Museum loses chief curator.” We were surprised. Why was Dave Pahl leaving? He was young, and he had worked so hard to gather his 1,700+ rare and historical hammers at his Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska.

It turns out, as you may have guessed, that the LA Times was giving a headline to a different Hammer Museum. An art museum at UCLA, named for its superrich benefactor.

It doesn’t help that we’ve visited too many specialty museums with WYSIWYG names such as the Angel Museum and the Bunny Museum.

Our Hammer Museum delusion reminded us of one road trip incident, when we drove fifty miles out of our way to visit the Clay Museum, which we convinced ourselves would be a hilarious museum about dirt. Instead, its focus was on HENRY Clay — a two-time failed Presidential candidate from Kentucky.

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