Tinkertown

Name:	Tinkertown
Category:	Cultural
Archive ID#:	NM3158
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Description:	Forty years worth of carving and "tinkering" by the owner of this property, a man named Ross Ward, created the more than 12,000 carved objects and kinetic dioramas, including a Western town, and a circus. Tinkertown, a museum he made with his wife, over those years became a 22 room rambling hand made structure, with bottle walls, sculptures, and found objects embedded into the buildings. Ross Ward died in 2002, but the place remains as it was, and open to the public.
Location:	Sandia Park (POINT(-106.368303895 35.169581145311)) (show on map)
Address:	P.O. Box 303, 121 Sandia Crest Road Sandia Park NM, 87047
Contact Info:	Open April 1st through November 1st.
Visitor Info:	Tinkertown is located on the Turquoise Trail in Sandia Park on New Mexico Highway 536, the Sandia Crest National Scenic Byway on the way to the Crest.  Take exit 175 north off of I-40.  Tinkertown is just 20 minutes from Albuquerque.
Links:	http://www.tinkertown.com/
LCS:	Attraction, Cultural, Sculpture Park
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