Day 990

The Trash Museum

September 15th, 2014



"The second floor of this [sanitation] garage, long deemed too weak to support vehicles, has become a gallery of sorts, home to hundreds and hundreds of paintings, photographs, posters and objects, neatly framed and mounted on the walls. They are varied in every way — from style to age to material — except for one: almost every last piece of the collection was rescued from household trash by New York City’s sanitation workers as they went along their daily routes."

Read more here!

(The museum is not open to the public; this is as far as I got before someone stopped me.)


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