Tinkertown Museum

Tinkertown Museum, PO Box 303, 121 Sandia Crest Road, Sandia Park, NM 87047, Tel: (505) 281-5233, Website: www.tinkertown.com, Open: April-November 9am-6pm daily, Admission: $3 Adult, $2.50 Seniors, $1 Children aged 4-16.
Created by the late Ross Ward, Tinkertown is a story of personal endeavour, painstaking skill, unerring vision and a love of contemporary Americana. Having spent more than 40 years of his life carving more than 12,000 miniature wooden objects, including an Old Western town and circus, the twenty-two room museum is a culmination of his work - being a living space adorned by wagon wheels, old-fashioned store fronts and all sorts of eccentric memorabilia. As an eclectic visitor attraction par excellence, it will almost certainly inspire your creative spirit. Located just 20 minutes from Albuquerque on the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway in Sandia Park (Highway 536 on the way to the Sandia Crest) take exit 175 North off I-40. After exiting the I-40, take Highway 14 six miles up the mountain through Cedar Crest and turn left on Highway 536 (the road to Sandia Crest). Tinkertown is then found 1.5 miles up the road on the left.