This is the Oz Museum, in Wamego, Kansas. Dorothy may have wanted to get back there, but don't forget "Splendor In The Grass" was also set in Kansas, so I have mixed feelings about the place as a destination state.
But, as a devotee of MGM's 1939 masterpiece, "The Wizard Of Oz," this is one place I would LOVE to see! For starters, look at the inviting exterior. There is even a small auditorium where the film is daily screened-- I would head for there at once. Though, of course, I own it on DVD, nothings beats seeing it on the screen! The collection includes things from the movie, as well as other materials related to OZ, such as past and present dramatizations, screen works, board games, puzzles, picture books, comics, even the actual passport of actor Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an Oz archive to cherish. The concept is brilliant. One walks into a sepia toned replica of Dorothy's house, where one pays their fare, then goes through the Tornado Simulator, and through Dorothy's Oz journey, in all its stages, back to the world of sepia again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girls, this is too much for me!!!!!!!!!!!! Anti-vaxxers, get your shots NOW, or else you will deal with MY bitchiness to get here, which makes Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch Of The West or Disney's Maleficent pale, by comparison.
I want to go here, pronto!
As Miss Gulch said, "Well, that's for the sheriff to decide!"
Here is the 26 minute video that introduced me to the museum. It will have to do, before we can all get there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
I sent you that Judy Garland email before I even saw this!
We’re on the same wavelength lol
Victoria,
Most definitely! How I would love
to see the movie on screen again!
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