After reading Carousel Tides I really wanted to go to the Merry Go Round Museum in Sandusky.
The museum has a collection of hand carved carousel animals from the late 1800 and early 1900s.
Horses
Cats
Dogs
Birds
Donkey!
Cows
There is also a workshop where carvers restore the animals in the collection and animals from private collections.
They have some of the animals from the stamps.
Three of their deer were at the White House for Christmas 2014.
There is a working carousel in the middle of the room that you can ride. All the animals are restored from other carousels. I wanted to ride the ostrich but he was high up and didn’t have stirrups.
Merry Go Round Museum Sandusky OH
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Admission $6 which includes one carousel ride
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What a great place! My children LOVE merry-go-rounds and would love to see all these characters!
Oh how fun, now this is a museum we would love. We went to a Pinball Museum in Asheville, NC a few weekends ago and wish we had more time to spend there to play unlimited pinball! Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday Linkup. Pinning to our linkup board and hope you found some great posts to visit this week!
These are lovely! We have a lot of carousels around but they’re all really horrible modern versions. I love the old hand carved horses.
What a great museum…definitely one that my girls and I would love to visit! Merry Go Rounds are always fun!
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I feel so happy when I see a carousel and hear the music. You have beautifully captured the individual animals. Thanks for sharing, and here’s MY SATURDAY SNAPSHOT POST
Neat! I love merry go rounds, but have never heard of a merry go round museum.
I love Merry Go Rounds! This would be a very fun and interesting museum to visit. Thanks for sharing.
Cute stuff! I think the ostrich was my favorite.
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