Carromato de Max, i.e. Max's Covered Wagon, is in Mijas, one of the white towns in Spain's Costa del Sol. It's up the kind of switchback road that made me carsick as a kid. The day I went, there were Wizard of Oz-level winds, which made climbing the stairs to the converted train car precarious, and arriving into the museum's spare stillness surprising.
Maybe I was influenced by the winds, but the late Dr. Max appears to have been a traveling mountebank who sold snake oil and collected curiosities. The Max museum was recently renovated, and the random assortment of items is now encapsulated in plastic bubbles as if they came out of giant gumball machines. The display aesthetic is space-age mod, which makes a lovely contrast with the contents, including stuffed and dressed fleas, sculptures made of chewed gum, and just about anything that can be painted on the head of a pin, like Abraham Lincoln (left).
I took some photos on my crapass camera. I also took copious notes, but I can't find them, and it's hard to tell what those damn little things are now. Fleas? Dust? I think it's fine to make up your own captions. Feel free to do so here.
Below: Space Oddities; Seven Wonders of the World on a Toothpick; Pinhead Lincoln; Stuffed and Dressed Fleas.
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