History of Stickers Museum in Toronto
Spoiler: It's closed already
So obscure, it no longer exists.
StickerYou (Instagram) was founded in 2008 in Toronto, Ontario. They make custom stickers and related products1.
They launched a physical store on Queen Street West around 2019-2020. During the store’s hours, you could also visit the “History of Stickers Museum” and exhibit called “Stickers RePEELed” hosted by the Museum and StickerYou. It’s detailed in this article: We Opened a STICKER MUSEUM.
I discovered the existence of the History of Stickers Museum while reading one of my favourite websites, Atlas Obscura.
Per Atlas Obscura, the exhibit was curated the publishers of Peel Magazine, a defunct zine dedicated to stickers (Instagram).
Unfortunately, it already has this sad Atlas Obscura marker:
Google Maps confirms the location is closed too:
A sticker timeline from the museum, from Atlas Obscura:
The Hatch Sticker Museum in Berlin looks fun, but purportedly stays “away from children’s stickers entirely” which is a bummer. Maybe they need to re-open the Lisa Frank factory in Tucson for tours again.
If you have a favourite Atlas Obscura article, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
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Family obscura (January 2023)
Tatas bravas (October 2023)
Sandylion stickers - a nostalgia gut punch (January 2024)
I don’t create stickers (except for that one time) and I’m not an artist, so this does not constitute an endorsement. The scientist in me would prefer to order the same products from multiple vendors and perform a double-blind test and graph the results.
The mention of the museum that stays away from children’s stickers ‘entirely’ has me wondering where do you draw a line? 🤔 How very German. Haha
the rollercoaster of emotions you must've gone through! thank you for starting with the spoiler.