Craft And Folk Art Museum
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), was incorporated in 1973 and began formal museum operations in 1975. It is the successor to The Egg and The Eye gallery and restaurant, which opened in 1965 in the same historic building. Like the museum, the gallery showed contemporary craft objects and folk art and the restaurant featured a long list of ethnically inspired omelets.
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