May Natural History Museum and The Umbrella Cover Museum

May Natural History Museum Special Collections visits the May Natural History Museum near Colorado Springs, Colorado.  The May Museum is composed of the following: insects, insects, insects, and more insects.  How many insects?  Over 100,000 all together, almost all of them meticulously collected by a passionate, skilled amateur entomologist who is the great-grandfather of the museum’s current owner and guide.  The insects range from 22-inch long stick-like bugs, to ones that could fit on the head of a pin.  Their variety and interest is immense and we’ll share some of that insecty amazingness with you in this interview. Website: www.coloradospringsbugmuseum.com Umbrella Cover Museum Our next museum is located all the way across the country from Colorado in Peaks Island, Maine — the Umbrella Cover Museum.  So why does anyone collect 1300 examples (a Guinness World’s Record) of those little tube-like fabric things that go over your umbrella?  Mostly because they happen to belong to Nancy 3. Hoffman, one of the funniest, most energetic, most quirky, most likeable women on the planet.  And when you learn about this museum, what you quickly learn is that as weird and fun as these umbrella covers are, it’s really the stories behind them that matter.  And Nancy 3. Hoffman (yep, she changed her middle name to a number) is the consummate story-teller.  And hey, she sings an umbrella song while playing the accordion for us at the end. Website: www.facebook.com/UmbrellaCoverMuseum