American Dime Museum - Reopening and The Next Generation

Reopening and The Next Generation

After visiting the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland in 2002, the Erotic Artist Peter Excho (Pexcho) was enthralled and entranced by the "Time Bandit" and Proprietor, Dick Horne. Very soon after, Pexcho became a volunteer at the American Dime Museum and began his tutelage in the Lost Art of Preserving the Sideshow or Freakshow that P.T. Barnum began in the late 19th century.

After the fateful auction of Dick Horne's Collection in 2007, Pexcho returned to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he reopened his Infamous Coffee & Art House, Insomkneeacks, next to the Old Broadmoor Theater on Florida Boulevard in a rundown, forgotten Shopping Center built in Baton Rouge during the 1960s.

During and after his Apprenticeship with Dick Horne, Pexcho began collecting Wonders and Oddities of his own through the use of the Internet. Pexcho had several exhibits bequeathed to him from Mr. Horne's Collection at the Baltimore American Dime Museum and won a few at The Auction of 2007. With Horne's Blessing and Approval, Pexcho started constructing and building within Insomkneeacks III in Baton Rouge, a new and revitalized American Dime Museum, with Living and Preserved Specimens of both the Natural and UnNatural World we live in. Featuring an Exclusive Menagerie of Infant Animals of North America, Pexcho's American Dime Museum in 2011 now contains Wonders and Curiosities that cannot be found anywhere else on the Planet Earth.

What began with "Curiosity Cabinets" in wealthy homes in the late 19th century has now evolved into a Living Document and Testament to a nearly forgotten past and a hopeful future, where "normal" is the oddity. Peter Excho has revived and rebooted the American Dime Museum for the next generation of Doubters, Gawkers and Non-Believers, preserving and displaying Truly Wonderful, Exotic, Rare and Fantastic Anomalies that occur and exist around us still to this day. Peter Excho is the New Caretaker of a Legacy that began with Barnum, and through Dick Horne's dedication, passion and vision, Pexcho gives visitors and patrons alike a glimpse and respite into the past, providing the ability for the Public to experience an Authentic Victorian Era American Dime Museum in the 21st Century. Or an inferior facsimile thereof.