This Bizarre Museum in Nebraska is Not For the Faint of Heart
By Delana Lefevers|Published October 06, 2016
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Delana Lefevers
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As a lifelong Nebraskan, Delana loves discovering the many hidden treasures of her state. She has worked as a writer and editor since 2007. Delana's work has been featured on more than a dozen websites and in Nebraska Life Magazine.
People with a fear of clowns have had a really rough time lately. There have been reports from several states (including Nebraska) of people dressed up as sinister clowns hanging around neighborhoods and peeking out of cornfields. Just this week, multiple teens in Nebraska have been either arrested or questioned by police in incidents involving threats made while the teens were dressed as clowns.
Knowing all of that may make what you’re about to see seem tame by comparison…or it may make the following even scarier.
CLOWNS. Or, rather, Klowns. Thousands of them. Surrounding you from every side, smiling those huge, exaggerated smiles and bearing their terrifyingly huge feet.
We're only kidding, of course. The Klown Doll Museum in Plainview is definitely full of clown dolls, and anyone with the extremely common clown phobia would do well to stay away. But for lovers of weird, kitschy roadside attractions, the Klown Doll Museum is anything but scary.
The Plainview Klown Band was founded to promote the town in a goodwill ambassador fashion. Years later, a small assortment of a few clowns in the Chamber of Commerce offices blossomed into a huge collection that grew rapidly thanks to donations from all over. This was the beginning of this odd little museum.
The collection actually outgrew the museum's first location and had to be moved to its very own building which opened in 2007 with the help and fundraising of the community.
The Klown Doll Museum is, at its core, a community project. It was born of a desire to make people smile, and it continues to do that today (unless, of course, clowns actually terrify you).
On the first Saturday of each June, the town comes together to celebrate Plainview's Annual Klown Festival. The town of Plainview was even officially named "The Klown Kapital of Nebraska" by former governor Dave Heineman.
The museum is open six days a week from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Outside of that time frame, it is open by appointment only. No matter what time of year, admission is always free. Find out more, look at lots more pictures of klown dolls (if you dare), and get the phone number for making an appointment at the museum’s site.
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