A museum so small that only one visitor at a time can enter has opened in an out-of-service British phone booth in Warley, West Yorkshire. The town has asked Guinness to make its status official as ‘world’s smallest museum.’
Inside, the booth is filled with objects and documents focusing on local history; the Warley Community Association says the exhibits will be updated about every three months.
WCA spokesperson Kathryn Gallagher told the Daily Mail that “We just started talking about what we could do with it and came up with the idea. I live two doors down from the museum and we’ve had so many people who just had to come and look at it.”
No new museum would be complete without a ceremony, of course, and the Warley Museum’s featured speeches by local officials, a band and the Sowerby Bridge Morris Dancers.
There may opportunity for more mini-museums; BT, the national phone network operator, is planning to close another 40 under-used phone boxes in the area. In the cellphone era, research shows only 7% of British adults use a pay phone regularly.
