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Hi Jessica, what is OCD? The Office of Collecting and Design is part exhibition, part archive and part nostalgia machine. A collection of collections, it is devoted to the diminutive and the discarded.

What kind of collections do you house? Hundreds of drawers are filled with countless collections. Loose doll parts, pencil stubs, dice you can’t play with, used pink erasers. On the main gallery table, we have candy jars overflowing with lost buttons, marbles and trinkets. The walls are lined with displays of rickety dollhouse furniture, empty matchboxes and lonely dominoes.

Yes! The museum is open to the public – visitors are

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