What is actually shown in the museum of toilet lids (5 photos)

The toilet lid museum made a plumber named Barney famous Smith, who became interested in collecting these items, deciding first use them as the basis for their "works". In his collection so you could see the lid with fragments Berlin Wall, Spaceship Challenger and barbed wire from Auschwitz.





Barney Smith and his Rooftop Toilet Museum

However, he began with a joke - he simply attached it to the lid old deer antlers. The idea seemed funny, after which Barney typed some defective caps at work and began to have fun, attaching to them completely, it would seem, inappropriate things.

If you look at the photo, you can see that the toilet lids have become "canvases" for completely different "pictures".

Let's say that black looks completely organic on a white background. an Indian mask or a large cross - even somewhat reminiscent of a coat of arms, good shape is similar. There are also quite strange or, if appropriate, say, not very conceptual work.



Say, TV remotes glued to white plastic or smoking pipes do not make much impression. But it's up some time it was just a personal hobby - so There is no point in asking strictly.

However, when they found out about the collection, he decided to open his own museum - right at home, in San Antonio (this is Texas).

The Barney Smith Toilet Lid Museum can be safely attributed to garage culture - at least the exposition was exhibited in something like a garage.





This is interesting - the museum has become quite famous, not Louvre, it's over, but people came specifically to look at extraordinary exhibition. Moreover, people began to bring their work for Barney Smith to exhibit in the museum.

By a certain point, the walls of the museum, even taking into account the fact that it was a simple garage, decorated with gifts from Japan, Greece, Israel and many more countries.

We do not know whether to believe it or not, but it was even stated that the museum You can see the toilet lid from Saddam Hussein's toilet. The question is who could bring it and in what situation did this donor get such "trophy" probably only spurred the interest of visitors.



Or, say, a toilet lid from a private jet. Aristotle Onassis, on which Jacqueline Kennedy flew ... Someone didn’t too lazy to "steal" this rarity.

However, special evidence of "reliability" donated exhibits Barney Smith hardly bothered, but his role in attracting visitors such stories clearly played.

They write that according to the statistics kept by Barney Smith himself, the museum, located in his house, visited by about 1 thousand people a year. Somebody grins, of course, but ... In general, when the owner of an unusual museum became elderly, he decided to sell his business - and did it.



He managed to sell his museum in 2017 and even managed to cut the ribbon at the opening of the museum at a new location (in the city of Colonia here in Texas) - just a few months before his death in July 2019 year.