The Office of Collecting and Design Re-listen

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this conversation with Jessica Oreck who has spent the last 30 years collecting odd and forgotten objects. Now, they’re all beautifully curated and on display in the Office of Collecting and Design in Las Vegas. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month Follow the Office of Collecting and Design on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/office.of.collecting/?hl=en READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/office-of-collecting-and-design

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0:00.0	Hello, it is Dylan Thoris, host of the podcast here.
0:08.3	And for Women's History Month, we've been re-sharing some of our favorite episodes
0:13.0	that feature women, women doing amazing things from history and women who are doing amazing
0:18.4	things right now.
0:19.8	And that definitely applies to this episode, where we get to kind of witness the birth
0:25.0	of a strange new museum.
0:27.1	And some museum created by an artist named Jessica Orrick.
0:30.5	And this episode is really for anyone who has that drawer in their house full of small,
0:36.0	weird little random things that have no real use, but that are deeply aesthetically pleasing.
0:41.6	And so they just stay in that drawer forever.
0:44.4	Well, Jessica's entire museum is kind of a very, very well-organized version of that
0:50.0	drawer.
0:51.0	I hope you enjoy this story and my conversation with Jessica as much as I enjoyed chatting
0:55.8	with her.
0:57.0	And if you want to learn more about Atlas Obsgera's Women's History Month project, please
1:01.9	visit the link in our show notes.
1:14.8	What is that?
1:15.8	What is that one?
1:16.8	That's metal bits, which is hard, it's hard to explain that that is, but this one is
1:20.2	teeth.
1:21.2	Okay.
1:22.2	And true to its promise, there are all different kinds of teeth-related things in there, like
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