Pierce Hawthorne, is that you?!?

(Given that he audited classes for years, this very much strikes me as a class project based on his interests...)

This reminds me something my the teacher of my university public speaking class told us (in the context of doing research): No matter how trivial, esoteric or obscure the topic, there is someone on earth who has devoted their entire career to studying it.

Wow, almost unchanged from 2005[0]. Impressive. I miss the weird web.

EDIT: Here's an Atlas Obscura article about the museum itself[1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20050613084710/https://moisttowe...

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moist-towelette-museum

Reminds me of this lovely book of Spanish restaurant serviettes: https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/servilletas-spanish-...

And another of beer coasters from the bars around Barcelona: https://antennebooks.com/en-eu/products/posavasos

Related (?) : https://airsicknessbags.com/

I find myself holding onto and preserving general ephemera and just happened to scan a moist towelette package over the weekend. My collection mostly consists of business cards and dry cleaning type carbon copy receipts. I need to better catalogue these and share online. A few business cards: https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/

I heard Collectors Universe/ PSA will launch "Moist Towlette Grading" in the next quarter.

Misunderstood that as "moist towel museum" first and was worried for a moment.

Re: the moist towelettes, I love that the person who runs this website hasn't seen any need to change the HTML design since probably 1997.

See also, matchbook and matchbox museum:

https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home/

No Wash & Dry samples?

Ah, now it makes sense why my AI prompt last week for "Create a Spock moist towlette image" was so realistic.