Welcome to the Idaho Potato Museum Gift Shop
Also, is "Elsbeth" a good spinoff? Plus, we yell at Matt Lauer.
As we careen through spring and toward summer, I am pleased to welcome my fellow Broads to a new edition of Enter Through the Gift Shop, the feature where we examine the offerings of the world’s most intriguing museum gift shops. As you head off on your adventures over the next few months, please remember that I am always interested to hear about cool and interesting (or, I guess, notably weird and lame?) candidates, and can be reached at dwbgiftshop@gmail.com. (If you’ve sent in a suggestion that I haven’t tackled yet, please rest assured that I have them on a list and I will get to them. Y’all have sent in some good stuff!)
Recent editions of ETTGS have taken us to Amsterdam’s Cat Cabinet, South Dakota’s glorious Corn Palace, the Corning Museum of Glass, Hawthorne’s iconic House of the Seven Gables, the Huntington Library, the Museum of Neon Art, Milwaukee’s National Bobblehead Museum, and, most recently, Wisconsin’s National Mustard Museum. Today, we’re leaving Wisconsin and heading…