Meet The Man Behind Michigan’s Unusual Moist Towelette Collection

Michigan is home to many unusual and unique museums throughout the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. You can take a boat out to Beaver Island and visit the toy museum, or take a ferry to Mackinac City to see the wacky taxidermy and miniatures museum.

Or you can stay on land and visit the pickle barrel house. Then there is the museum, which may be one of the strangest in the entire country, let alone the state. John French, is a Michigan State University employee in Lansing who works in the planetarium, and he is also the keeper and owner of the moist towelette museum.

That’s right, over 20 years ago, according to Atlas Obscura John French began collecting moist towelettes, and ever since then the collection has continued to grow, including, as funny as it may sound, rare, moist towelettes:

Beginning 20 years ago, when French first started collecting towelettes, the museum eventually outgrew its first display case as people donated more and more unique towelettes. Some of the most notable include one called "Finger Pinkies," which is advertised as "the secretary's hand cleaner," a few from the Hard Rock Cafés in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, and a series with Star Trek-themed packaging from the show's original run.

Odds are good if you have a moist towellete that he doesn't have, he'd gladly accept donations to add to his collection.

I guess this goes to show that if you love something enough, you're welcome to start your own museum, no matter how off-the-wall the collection may be.