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 1970s. 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 of the animation displays within the museum.

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    Entrance Sign.
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    Bottle Walls and Metal Art.
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    Rusty Wyer and the Turquoise Trail Riders.
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    Bottle Walls and Wagon Wheels.
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    Western Town - Trading Post.
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    Western Town - Monarch Hotel.
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    Western Town - Blacksmith.
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    Western Town - Saloon.
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    Western Town - Wells Fargo.
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    Western Town - Ice Cream Parlor.
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    Western Town - Photographer Studio.
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    Big Top Circus.
    Photos by EMKotyk