Micro Museum

I like the review down below. «I don’t get it.» If it takes you «30 seconds» to walk through the whole thing, you probably aren’t really looking very hard at anything.
I went and loved it. It’s fun, it’s innovative, and I felt like the owners behind the museum are secret geniuses (and would probably feel just fine staying that way).
If you’re in Cobble Hill, take some time to go check this place out.

Go in with an open mind and sense of adventure, certainly be ready to play. We sat and chatted with the owner for a while after our experience, who had some interesting and funny stories to share.
It’s only $ 2, however I wish we would have given more. The couple are very sweet and involved in community development-​enrichment.

The Micro Museum is an interesting spot full of interactive art pieces. They require a $ 2 donation, but it is completely worth it.
And it’s really NOT a museum of tiny objects.
Walking around, it’s actually difficult to tell what is a piece, and what is simply an object that has been strewn about as it is being assembled into a new work. Luckily, we were the only people in the museum at the time, so Kathleen, one of the co-​founders, was our own personal tour guide. She was more than happy to escort us around and explain each of the pieces.
In the back room, they have a tiny stairmaster; it is attached to a mechanism, so every time you take a step, a cork punches a key on a keyboard which takes you through a slideshow of images outside the Louvre. So you’re «walking» around the Louvre. There is also a female voice that encourages you with each step.
I liked the Big Chair. It’s an enormous chair that you sit on, and decide whether it makes you feel big or small.
There is also a piano that, depending which chords you play, flashes crazy lights and spins pinwheels. And a couch, more of a loveseat really, that has phones built into the armrests so you can talk to the person next to you. And the «pillowtalk» piece, where you can press different keys of a keyboard inside a pillow, and each one dispenses a different pearl of wisdom.
Not the most traditional museum around, but it is a fine place to spend some time on a Saturday.

I love the spirit behind what’s going on with Micro Museum. I met the owner upon my first visit in all of her quirky glory.
This place is the definition of independent. The kind of place you’ll just never see twice because you can tell the owners heart and soul is inside of this space.
I was really impressed with the execution of the artwork inside. They actually have an eye for art and that much definitely apparent. The atmosphere can use a little work but I’d definitely go back again and again just to see what was there.

I don’t completely «get» this place, but I’m a frequent museum visitor and decided to check it out around Halloween. There was supposedly going to be a «haunted house,» and I put that in quotes because it basically resembled the inside of what you imagine your scary neighbor or relative’s house to look like with some neon lights and art thrown in. Strange. It took about 30 seconds to walk through.
Well, as least I can check it off my long list of museums to visit.

«This is NOT a museum of small objects» reads the sign on this small Smith Street storefront. The Micro Museum IS, however, an arts incubator for mixed media creativity and community leadership which celebrates American ingenuity, invention and artful innovation (their words.). It’s open on Saturdays only, and there is a $ 2 donation required. The gallery/​museum is basically one long room full of quirky art installations. For example, imagine two telephones on opposite arms of a couch — when you take one off the hook, the other begins ringing and only stops when both are hung up or off the hook. Similarly weird, there’s a knowledge chair — you press buttons on the side of the chair and it reads idioms to you. (I think the exhibits change so these may no longer be there but that’s the type of cool stuff you can expect)
Imagine that someone plucked a gallery from chelsea and stuck it on smith street… it’s not worth a trip exclusively to visit this place, but if you’re having smith street brunch on some lazy saturday, do stop by and check it out.