All right here, so we're walking down a hundred and sixty first street here in the Bronx.

It's like 90 degrees out in the sun.

And we are coming up on right here, the Family Court building.

And we're going to be headed in there in just a minute.

Hopefully they have air conditioning.

The Bronx Family Court is a place where a lot of serious

stuff happens. Custody cases, child support cases, and the building itself is

imposing. It's one of those big brutalist concrete cubes. Emphasis on big. But today I am

visiting something that you might not expect to find inside of the Bronx Family Court.

A museum, a very small museum dedicated to very small creatures.

I'm looking at what appeared to be a tiny sculpture of a squid or a snail in this kind of vending

machine sized box of boxes. You know the monolith in 2001 is a little bit

like that it's like this thing has come down out of space and landed here and

here I'm going to get closer.

I'm Dylan Thurris and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible and wondrous places.

Today we are celebrating the power of the small, the smallest

mollusk museum. It's part of a fleet of tiny museums, micro museums, that may just have a big impact on the world.

That's up. It's like a pretty sort of three-dimensional projection.

Looks kind of like a hologram and it's it's a squid swimming around in this.

So here I am standing in the lobby of the Bronx Family Court and I'm in front of the smallest

mollusk museum.

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