Today, over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. The wagon wheels, old fashioned storefronts, and western memorabilia decorating the exterior only hint at the wonders within.

Inside, the wood-carved inhabitants of a raucous Western town animate to hilarious life. Under the Big Top, diminutive tiger tamers challenge big cats, and acrobats defy gravity.  Explore myriad collections of Americana, drop a quarter into Otto the One-Man-Band and trace the voyage of the Theodora R, a 35’ antique sailboat.

Long supported by admissions and gift shop sales, Tinkertown Museum is now a federally recognized 501c3 with a mission to preserve and protect the life’s work of Ross J. Ward.