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Welcome to my website museum, a cross between the
Smithsonian Institute and Pee-Wee's Playhouse...
If you're looking for neat stuff to add to your collection or if
you just want to look at a bunch of neat stuff, you've come to the right place!
New photos will be added on a regular basis, so be sure to check
back. There's lots more where these came from.
And while you're at it, sign our Guestbook
and let me know what you
liked or didn't like about the Site.....Now be nice!
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I also buy single model kits or whole collections, so
if you've got some to sell or trade, let me know!
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My book is now on sale! It's available directly through me- $23.00
postpaid, check, money order, credit card or Paypal- or, you can buy it at
most major bookstores.
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My first two albums (OK- CD's) are officially finished
and I am now taking orders. Price is $15 postpaid @.
Check, money order, credit card or Paypal
to:
Dean Milano
362 Highland Ave.
Elmhurst, Il. 60126
The titles of the albums: Songs About Stuff
and Vestiges: More Songs About More Stuff
Click on the My Music page
for more info.
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The museum is now officially closed. This website will,
however remain online in case anyone would like to see what the museum was like.
Hope you enjoy the trip!
Everything has to go!
We still have:
several
flourescent light fixtures with bulbs,
slat wall
hardware (large, medium and small brackets), lots of glass and wood shelves,
metal shelf brackets and rails, peg board wall hooks,
a phone answering
machine,
ceiling track
lights, you name it...
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FOR SALE!
Our first Souvenir Item....for
lack of a better term.
The build-it-yourself Milano Model & Toy Museum
Delivery Van Model.
Made of sturdy cardboard, full-color graphics--- just cut it
out and put it together.
It's fun for the whole family and it's a major ego trip for me
since it not only has a beautiful reproduction of our neat little logo, but it
also has my face in the windows!
Just send $4 postpaid (No stamps, please!....did people
actually do that at one time, send stamps instead of cash?) to The Milano Model
& Toy Museum at the address above.
Collect 'em, trade 'em with your friends, get the whole
series....actually there's only one, so skip that last part.
(Designed by Dean Milano with much appreciated help from Bill
Carreon)
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Our DVD is now available!
It's a little over an hour long and includes a
complete walk-through of the museum exhibits.
It also includes sections on the building of
the museum, the opening night party and even a few of the TV shows we've appeared on.
Cost is $15 postpaid
Send check or money order for $15 to:
Dean Milano
362 Highland Ave.
Elmhurst, Il. 60126
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Many individual items throughout the museum pages are now
for sale. If an item has a price next to it, it is for sale. If there is no
price, it is not for sale at this time, but may be in the future. The prices on
most of the items are high. That's because I'm not really all that anxious to
sell most of the pieces. However, if someone wants an item badly enough and they
are willing to pay that high price, then maybe we can do business.
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If you never got a chance to visit us before we closed, just
click on the thumbnails below for a virtual tour of the museum.
Neat picture of the storefront. No special effects used, the
picture just came out that way by itself. Must be the heavens shining down on
us.
This was our Gift Shop, complete with a working early 1960s
arcade game.
Lots of vintage model kits for sale along with an assortment
of other goodies.
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Doin' our part for Orville & Wilbur on the 100th anniversary.
Bill Carreon's fantastic collection of figure models.
The "Front Room". This area featured playsets,
toys, advertising memorabilia, old radios, salt and pepper shakers, Beer and
soda pop paraphernalia, dioramas, and our "guest" showcase, which rotated
displays and collections on a regular basis.
It also featured several shadowbox dioramas and the 15 '
long "Dean Street".
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This was the Model Kit room, with lots of cases and shelves for lots
of models. This room also featured prototype models, large scale master models
from Revell-Monogram, and many historic items from the model kit industry from
the late 1940s to the present.
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And finally, the train layout and research library. The library
was
available to the public and contained a wealth of books and magazines on pop
culture as well as model kit books and periodicals.
Our H.O. scale train layout was a 10' x 5' beauty featuring
an amusement park with working carnival rides and a small mid-western town circa
the 1960s.
Me, completely out of control again!
(An interesting footnote: This picture keeps
popping up all over the Internet these days. Apparently, teenagers are placing
it on their "ultra-hip" websites and inviting their "tragically
cool but boring" friends to make fun of it with their own captions. So far
I've seen lots of crude and stupid remarks, but nothing very funny or
imaginative. Maybe we can get all these folks together in 30 years to see what
"dweebs" they look like to the teens from the year 2034.)
