![]() ![]() Movie magic: Dorothy's dress was pink for non-color scenes. You pay admission through Dorothy's brown farmhouse window, open the sepia-colored screen door, and emerge into dazzling Munchkinland, with the colorful feet of the dead wicked witch sticking out from under the other side of the house. Visitors enter through a lobby that's monochrome, like Kansas in the 1939 movie. The Oz Museum now has the largest permanent public display of Oz artifacts in the world, and it's in a town of less than 5,000 people. Glinda the Good Witch wears skyscraper crown, hefts wand that seems suited for witch stick-fighting. He knew about the museum and innocently wondered if it would like to display his Oz collection as well - which turned out to be much, much larger than the one the museum was losing. Then, by "a stroke of luck" according to executive director Clint Steve, the museum was contacted by a Franciscan monk named Johnpaul Cafiero. But Todd's memorabilia was only on loan for five years, and the museum faced an uncertain future. Opened in 2003, the museum was built to house the Oz artifacts of Wamego collector Todd Machin. "There needed to be an Oz museum somewhere in the state of Kansas." ![]() "If you're from Kansas you're always asked, 'How's Dorothy and Toto?'" said Oz Museum operations manager Kimberly Shepherd. Original Flying Monkey is surpringly tiny, and one of Ozdom's great rarities. ![]()
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