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Grandpa Jerry’s Clown Museum

11/18/2012

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22 Lincoln Ave., Arriba, Colorado, 719/768-3257, ourjourney.info/MyJourneyDestinations/ClownMuseum.asp

Housing a collection of over 3,000 clown artifacts, this is most likely the preeminent museum of clown memorabilia in the world. There are paintings of clowns, and figurines, and banks, and music boxes. There are baby rattles and Picasso prints, Ronald McDonald figurines and Jackson Pollock-esque Emmet Kelly portraits. There are clowns, lots and lots and lots of clowns.

Jerry Eder started collecting clowns with the help of his brother and lady-friend in 1986 and moved from Sterling to Arriba with his collection in 2001, where it got its own building. Jerry dubs it “the largest collection of its kind in such a small building,” but knows of no larger collection in any building.

Jerry says he likes the colors and the smiles, and doesn’t consider clowns scary—as do many of the Poltergeist generation. “I have a lady who collects clowns for me that’s scared of them,” he says. “She won’t even come in here.”  

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Anita Lunde
11/8/2019 02:58:50 pm

Are you interested in acquiring any more clown figurines for your collection? I could send you pictures of my collection which I am trying to sell and you could let me know which you are interested in.

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