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:…

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