Video: Tinkertown Day Trip from Taos Print E-mail
Contributed by Jim Kimmons   
Tinkertown
Tinkertown
Delightful video (2min 36sec} of The Tinkertown Museum. The Tinkertown Museum is on the Turquoise Trail between Santa Fe, NM and Albuquerque, NM, perfect for a day trip from Taos. One man dedicated his life to constructing miniatures and gathering interest stuff for this museum. It's well worth a visit. It took Ross Ward over 40 years to carve, collect, and lovingly construct what is now Tinkertown Museum. His miniature wood-carved figures were first part of a traveling exhibit, driven to county fairs and carnivals in the 1960s and '70s. Today over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. Wagon wheels, old fashioned store fronts, and wacky western memorabilia make Tinkertown's exterior as much as a museum as the wonders within.

Inside, the magic of animation takes over. The inhabitants of a raucous little western town animate to hilarious life. Under the big top, diminutive circus performers challenge tigers and defy gravity while the Fat Lady fans herself and a polar bear teeters and totters.

Visit: Tinkertown Web site.

Video by Jim Kimmons - alltaosrealestate.com.
 
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