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The Clowns Gallery-Museum is a museum of
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. Established in 1959, the collection contains costumes and props from famous clowns, as well as a reference library, and is home to the Clown Egg Register.


History

The collection is split between the museum's two sites, Holy Trinity Church in
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, London, and Wookey Hole in Somerset, England. The museum was established in 1959 in Dalston and the collection was split into a venue in
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in 2007. The Dalston museum is situated in what was the vestry of the Holy Trinity Church. It was threatened with closure in 2014 but remained in place. The Wookey Hole museum is run by Gerry Cottle, vice president of Clowns International.


Clown Egg Register

The Clown Egg Register is an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs that serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs. The clown egg tradition began in 1946, when Stan Bult, a chemist, and founder of Clowns International, took to drawing the faces of club members and famous clowns onto chicken eggs. The egg gallery was created to forestall the possibility of accidental or intentional
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: an unofficial rule prohibits any two clowns from sharing a single
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design, with eggs providing a suitably head-shaped mannequin. Real eggs were originally used but were later replaced with ceramic eggs. The gallery is open on the first Friday of each month.


References in popular culture

*A version of the egg museum is a key plot element of the 2012 clown horror film Stitches, starring
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. *The museum is mentioned by
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in season 13 episode 17 of the American crime drama ''
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''. *The museum is additionally mentioned in
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's Discworld series book "
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". *The Clown Egg Register is referenced in
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in the art for Egg Joker, depicting an egg with a clown's face paint. *The registry is referenced in John Allison's Solver comics storyline "Circus Windows" issue 2. https://badmachinery.com/comic/2021-03-03/ *The registry is also mentioned in the fourth game in the Monster Prom series, Monster Con.


References


External links

* Museums in the London Borough of Hackney Clowning 1959 establishments in the United Kingdom Dalston Eggs in culture {{UK-museum-stub