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Lunchbox Museum

Columbus, GA · Columbus

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Allen Woodall bought his first lunch boxes, a Green Hornet and a Dick Tracy, at an Atlanta fairgrounds in 1985, and the obsession that followed now fills these walls with more than 3,500 metal lunch boxes and matching thermoses, the largest such collection in the world. Rows of Roy Rogers, the Beatles, Disney characters and Saturday-morning cartoons climb floor to ceiling, a tin-litho timeline of American childhood from the 1950s through the school cafeterias of the 1980s. It anchors the Columbus Collective Museums inside a restored 1946 warehouse, where you can handle some of the boxes rather than just look.

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Getting there

3218 Hamilton Rd, Columbus, GA 31904

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