Oct 28, 2026 | 10:30 am
A special sort of museum is rolling into Houston this week. The Office of Collecting and Design will be parked at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art from October 28 through November 1.
Dedicated to little lost items and the art of nostalgia, the Office of Collecting and Design has garnered a loyal social media following. The converted RV that the museum now calls home inspires expressions of delight and wonder. With visitors encouraged to explore the many drawers, containers, and cabinets within the small space, discovering items such as beads, rocks, and film negatives.
“It’s stuff that’s a little bit too charming to throw away that has no intrinsic value,” artist and owner Jessica Oreck explains to CultureMap. “It’s obsolete things, it’s broken things, it’s used things, dried out things. We have a collection of lost buttons and lonely dominoes and used pink erasers and dice you can’t play with.”…