The Museum of Interesting Things

12/29/2023

Hi hi!
I wanted you to know about the…
Ridiculous Records Secret Speakeasy Sun Dec 31st 8pm
All ages NYC time

Celebrate the New Year Ridiculously!
LIVE or Virtual whatever suits you
��The Museum of Interesting Things� takes over a Soho loft
There were some really nutty records made over the years, come check them out!
The first music videos were soundies on 16mm film come see them too!
Come see our craziest and silliest ones!�� See 16mm vintage short films� Hear original vinyl records �Enjoy actual antiques you can �handle and get demonstrated!

�In the spirit of a true Speakeasy
Anything can change so...
Please check this website before leaving
http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

WE ARE BORROWING THIS SPACE
PLS CHECK THIS WEBSITE
IT THE SPACE GETS RENTED WE GO VIRTUAL

��Early to mid 1900’s vintage films and some early 1900’s & 1800’s antiques�themed Stereoviews and Mutoscope cards!

�The Loft at Prince Street 177 Prince Str or virtually
�$10 to help the Museum
�Between Thompson & Sullivan street
in Soho NYC 212 274 8757

Advance Tickets:
https://ridiculous_sse_1223.eventbrite.com

�A perfect date night or come meet someone new!

Come see our craziest and silliest vinyl records & 16mm short vintage films!

 Enjoy actual antiques you can 
handle

12/22/2023

Come Enjoy the Season of Fun with...
16mm vintage circus, animation films and Bouncing Ball SingAlong films
Actual windup circus antiques
Fun Fun!

The Windup Circus Secret Speakeasy
Sunday Dec 24th 2023
8pm - 10pm all ages NYC times :)

You can come see it Live in Soho NYC or see it virtually, whatever suits you!
Check website before you leave for live.
http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

See 16mm short films and more!
Enjoy actual antiques you can virtually handle
and get demonstrated!
A Story Telling Event

16mm Circus & Vaudeville themed short films
Antique windup toys, vintage Board games,
Classic Coney/Circus thingies and more!

The Museum has a show featuring
Original Rare short 16mm films from the
1930’s, 1940's, 1950’s and 1960's
& some classic animation and circus films on 16mm!

The Loft at Prince Street 177 Prince Str NYC or Virtually (zoom)
$10 to help the museum :)
Between Thompson & Sullivan street
in Soho NYC 212 274 8757

Advance Tickets
https://windup_sse_1223.eventbrite.com

16mm vintage circus and animation as well as Bouncing Ball SingAlong films! Actual windup circus antiques Fun Fun!

12/20/2023

The Queens Gazette interviewed me with the Museum for an article they did on Big Apple Comic Con. I am after the 4th picture. They were very sweet! Thanks! Enjoy!

https://www.qgazette.com/articles/big-apple-christmas-con-celebrates-comics-and-christmas/?fbclid=IwAR1He9NY_inK555DZa0UW324NksEW2LNWAAoKBGKpjBcPwna-DfBRG_GwDI

We are in the printed paper too if you are in Queens NY.
Please pick me up one. I do not have one yet. heehee

Big Apple Comic Convention (BACC), NYC’s original comic con now in its 27th year, held their 4th annual Big Apple Christmas Con on Saturday, December 16 at The New Yorker Hotel, located in midtown Manhattan. BACC is a party convention and Christmas Party with spe­cial events to celebrate Christma...

12/17/2023

Hoy Moly, we were once part of a perfect weekend for TimeOut! Today is raining, but hopefully you will find a time to sneak out and see me and enjoy! Miss ya all!

12/15/2023

Hi hi!

Come Enjoy with us at the....

Mod vs Rockers GoGo Beat
Secret Speakeasy
Vintage 16mm short film Festival!

Sunday Dec 17 2023
8pm - 10pm NYC time zone

The Museum of Interesting Things
takes over your eyes & ears
for a Special 16mm film fest of
Mod, Music, fashion, GoGo, 60s, Beat, Hot Rods and more!!

Virtual or show up and enjoy live in Soho

In the spirit of a true Speakeasy
Anything can change so...
Please check this website before leaving.
http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

The Museum will bring antiques from our
History of invention collection!

The Museum has a show featuring
Original Rare 16mm short films from the
1930's, 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960's & 70's

Early 1900’s and some 1800’s antiques demos too!
Stereoviews and Mutoscope cards!

The Loft at Prince Street 177 Prince Str
$10 to help the Museum :)
in Soho NYC 212 274 8757

Advance Tickets:
https://modbeat_sse_1223.eventbrite.com

vintage 16mm Music, Fashion, Hot Rods, Style and more 16mm films! Interesting antiques!

12/13/2023

They did a cool radio interview with me recently about the Museum and the Speakeasy called A Secret in Soho, Enjoy!

A Secret Speakeasy In Soho Dec 8, 2023 December 06, 2023 Audio Files · A Secret Speakeasy In Soho Every Sunday, a small group of people gather in Soho to experience something from a bygone era. They sit in a dimly lit screening room and watch a couple of old black-and-white films. Behind the couche...

11/07/2023

I need your help if you can please 🙂

Things are nutty as many of you know. Many good things happening as always, but a few yukkie things lately too. 🙁

I am trying really hard to pay off the last bit of this crazy covid/recession debt!

Only $1,500 left of 40! Hard to believe I got so much done.
Please help me obliterate it!

Anything helps and whatever you can do I will send you the Zoom link to the Museum Secret Speakeasy Sunday or you can come live too!

If you would like to help support the Museum and what I do, Thank You!

Below are some links, Please do it as Friends and Family so big companies do Not take a commission heehee.

Thanks sooo much for helping.
Love Ya!! Cheerios! Denny

To support the Museum please use Venmo or Paypal as Friends & Family to this email

[email protected]

or my Venmo ID

Or I have Zelle under the email [email protected]

or paypal ONLY as Friends & Family or they take commission.
https://www.paypal.me/museumthings

or my old old go fund me heehee
They take a commission no matter what so all good 🙂

https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-museum-of-interesting-things?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

11/05/2023

Dear friends cheering me up and people visiting the Museum are the only things that cheer me up! Thanks!! ❤️🤗🍪

11/02/2023

Interviewing me, some cool presentations at our by appt space a fashion show at our museum of Interesting secret speakeasy, sooo much happened here. Enjoy!

10/29/2023

That philly old fort was sooo cool!! We did a jazz party. The by appt private shows always are fun and bring smiles. I love the sweet drawings kids do of the antiques! 🙂

10/14/2023

I need humans at coney, They are really begging me to bring humans, Please help me spread the word, I have been taking care of mom and I got robbed this week. So it has been nutty.Please help me and promo the show to humans 🙂
And please come too if you can!
https://www.facebook.com/events/982134863004201

08/23/2023

I hope you all are having a good day!

The Hollywood Times has an article on interesting things to do in NYC, it’s best kept secrets, and we are one of the interesting things to do...

They listed really fantastic choices too and the reporter & his wife were sweethearts and really smart!

They came to the by appointment studio tour and to the Museum 16mm film Secret Speakeasy!

Have a read and I hope you enjoy! Thanks sooo much to them for the sweet article! I hope you all enjoy!

Home BITING THE ‘BIG APPLE’ BITING THE ‘BIG APPLE’ By Gordon Durich - August 23, 2023 Facebook Twitter Pinterest ReddIt Email Cinematic treats in store from theaters to restaurants By Gordon Durich New York City, NY (The Hollywood Times) 8/23/23 –...

08/01/2023

Paul Rubens, P*e Wee, was such an inspiration to so many and his brilliant fun, silly, free spirit inspired you to do more and to smile no matter what! He was named after the P*e Wee harmonica that was made in Japan during the cold war and actually says Occupied Japan on the box, I have one in the Museum collection.

You are looking at the Moviola that edited the first season of P*e Wee’s Playhouse and one of the machines that edited the film P*e Wee’s Big Adventure, nick named Big Bertha by staff. It is part of The Museum of Interesting Things by Appt studio shows and one of my closers of the presentation! Everyone gets to touch it! teehee If you do not already know Tim Burton directed the film. It was his first major film.

At the next 2 speakeasy events I will bring some of my best P*e Wee antiques in honor of him

Rock Around the Clock Secret Speakeasy Sun Aug 6th 8pm

http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

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At the Silly Inventions Secret Speakeasy Sun Aug 13th 8pm
I will do a little tribute to P*e Wee and bring a few vintage items

http://www.secretspeakeasy.com/inventions0823.html

The cat in the pic is my Dear Sweet Tristan who passed this Feb. I miss him sooooo dearly. Love you Tristan!!

Thanks to Bob Krasner for this pic! It was published in the paper around 2020 I think.

02/15/2023

Tristan my dear gato exploring. And sweet friends Bob Greenberg, Mark Heller, Fitz, at Museum of Interesting Things Secret Speakeasy events and Figment and a cool school at our loft in soho! Fun times these crazy days! Hope to see you here too! 🙂🍪

01/12/2023

SVA MFA did a doc on the Museum.

Here is video, They shot for days at my space and the Speakeasy too.

Enjoy!

Devina in the MFA program of SVA did such a wonderful Documentary of the Museum! I hope you all enjoy!The Museum of Interesting Things is a traveling virtual...

01/05/2023

Join The Museum of Interesting Things at Green Fairy, at the Red Room in NYC, January 5th! We'll have live music from Chris Johnson, burlesque from Clara Coquette, a presentation by Denny Daniel of the Museum of Interesting Things, and we'll be tasting La Coquette Absinthe.
Doors open at 9:30pm

$20 In Advance/$25 at the door
Tickets available at GreenFairyJanuary2023.eventbrite.com

Dress code: Vintage attire, cocktail attire, semi-formal or formal, evening-wear, lingerie, and unmentionables are strongly recommended! No t-shirts, baseball caps, or casual wear.

The Red Room at KGB
85 East 4th Street New York

Join us at Green Fairy, at the Red Room in NYC, January 5th! We'll have live music from Chris Johnson, burlesque from Clara Coquette, a presentation by Denny Daniel of the Museum of Interesting Things, and we'll be tasting La Coquette Absinthe.

Doors open at 9:30pm
$20 In Advance/$25 at the door
Tickets available at GreenFairyJanuary2023.eventbrite.com

Dress code: Vintage attire, cocktail attire, semi-formal or formal, evening-wear, lingerie, and unmentionables are strongly recommended! No t-shirts, baseball caps, or casual wear.

The Red Room at KGB
85 East 4th Street New York

11/11/2022

Having fun with the Museum Gatsby/ Prohibition Jazz theme and Secret Speakeasy and by appt shows. This Sunday is a cool theme too at the Secret Speakeasy. Enjoy!

10/28/2022

Hi hi!
Wanted to let you know about The Museum of Interesting Things

Scared Silly 16mm films Secret Speakeasy
MONDAY Oct 31st
8pm - 10pm all ages NYC time
Live or Virtual, whatever suits you!

Bolt your doors and lock your windows!
It’s the Spooky 16mm films Secret Speakeasy
With vintage 16mm short films so exciting it will take you an hour to calm down!
And witness creepy medical antiques that are to die for! From quack medicine to shocking electrical devices!
The Museum of Interesting Things takes you down a road that will be scary and funny and maybe a little road kill! Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein, original 16mm short films and some spoofs too! You won’t be able to leave your seat because checking in is easy, checking out is Hell!

SPECIAL TREAT:
Talk by Paul Castiglia 20 year writer for
Archie / Mattel / Fisher Price

In the spirit of a true Speakeasy
Anything can change so...
Please check this website before leaving.
http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

Please support our efforts a pound of flesh, pint of blood….or …get a ticket! LOL.
We like to say…Pay to get in…Pray to get out!

I WILL be there with the antiques playing films
You can enjoy from home, or come visit live!


177 Princes Str NYC NY
$10 to help the Museum :)
212 274 8757
between Thompson & Sullivan str

Advance Tickets:
https://scaredsilly_sse_1022.eventbrite.com


You can also visit the Museum virtually any other day by Appt
And if is your Birthday we have a special Bday 45 record virtual singAlong
Zoom link sent after tickets

See Spooky & Funny 16mm films And History of film and animation Interesting Things! Cool Spooky stuff Talk with Fisher Price creative & more

10/22/2022

The Museum in Hastings and some by appt presentations and someone stringing up a Kodak 16mm projector at the Museum Secret speakeasy. All good fun and wonderful people!

10/17/2022

I was interviewed on the really cool Podcast called Coffin Talk.

They have 5 stars and I am convinced if their audience is in a coffin then what else is there to do! heehee

Enjoy! And you do not have to be in a coffin or dead to listen :P

Listen now (29 min) | Denny Daniel is the curator and founder of The Museum of Interesting Things, a traveling interactive demonstration/exhibition of antiques and inventions, inspiring innovation that brings its creativity to schools, libraries, and other community venues.

10/01/2022

Fun moments at the Museum’s History of NY & DC in up to 150 year old 3D at the Richmond Historical society. And the history of inventions at the Mineola library too. And don’t forget the Secret Speakeasy this Sunday too! Fun times for a fun season 🙂

09/23/2022

Watch City Steampunk in Waltham Mass is always a favorite!! So much fun and wonderful fantastic humans! And some other cool beings too! I met the best people there! This Sunday the Secret Speakeasy should be fun too. I got some new 16mm films in Waltham too! Enjoy!

09/20/2022

I was on Ch12 News for the Kids Comic Con show The Museum of Interesting Things did last weekend. It was a super hero fun time! Enjoy!

https://bronx.news12.com/superheroes-and-comics-kids...

08/19/2022

The Museum of Interesting Things Secret Speakeasy is #8 of 101 best things to do this weekend in TimeOut's list! Woo Hoo! Enjoy!

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend

08/12/2022

The private interactive presentations are always full of fun and surprise! You can do this anytime, just email or call to reserve a time. And at the Museum Secret speakeasy some lucky few get to string up the projector or wear a space shuttle jump suit!

07/21/2022

More silly fun at the Museum of Interesting Things Secret Speakeasy as well as the by appt presentations. With Artlex Soho, REW, Sea Monster, David P*el Bday bash and more! 16mm films, camera obscures, stereoscopes and mutoscopes oh my!

07/14/2022

Stereoscopes, 1880s bustle dress, people stringing up a 16mm projector even Judge Napolitano with a ballot from Lincoln’s election and Joey Ramones bro Mickey L have seen interesting things. The Museum appt shows and Secret Speakeasy and just life has been nutty and fun!

05/19/2022

Some fun times at the Museum of Interesting Things Secret Speakeasy. Seeing the 16mm films, learning about some interesting things and some people actually stringing up the vintage Kodak projector too!

05/13/2022

Tonight I’m doing a free lecture on the history of 3D and the history of NY & Washington DC using up to 100 year old 3D stereoscopes and views! Come visit at the Richmond Historical society in queens. I did the DC part actually in DC for a tour bus and dear friend in Dec! That was super fun so I decided to add NY in 3D and do the show here! This Sunday is also the Join the circus Secret Speakeasy and outdoor events upstate in Hastings and in Mineola LI! So see the Museum everyday everywhere! Lol

05/12/2022

A cool event by dear friends of ours in NJ! Enjoy!

https://friendsofedison.org/raise-the-roof-black-maria/

Thank you for interest in help the Friends of Edison with our Mission or rehabilitating the Black Maria so that future decades visitors can enjoy, learn and be inspired by Edison’s cinema invention.