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Founded after the Great Indoor Drizzle of 1891The Museum of Misfiled Weather
TUEPANEL SITTING
PLEASE DO NOT MAIL ACTIVE HAIL, UNFOLDED LIGHTNING, OR WEATHER LARGER THAN ITS BOX
Carefully stored fog specimen
GIFTS, BEQUESTS & RESPONSIBLY PACKED THUNDER

Have you found weather where weather ought not be?

The Museum considers domestic microclimates, inherited forecasts, misplaced conditions, and objects with persuasive atmospheric histories.

INQUIRIES THIS YEAR206
ACCEPTED31
REFERRED OUTSIDE82
STILL ACTIVE14
LABELS PENDING9
PANEL DAYTuesday
MAIL HAILNever

What the Museum collects

A strong candidate combines clear misplacement, credible custody, and enough remaining atmosphere to support a label.

Rain emblem
WELCOME

Weather found indoors

Rain beneath furniture, hallway fronts, attic dew, cupboard snow.

Fog emblem
WELCOME

Weather with custody

Inherited fog, loaned breeze, family thunder, privately held shade.

Atmospheric object emblem
REVIEW

Associated objects

Mitten, jar, table, photograph, or form with a documented weather event.

What we do not collect

  • Ordinary outdoor weather still performing its ordinary duties.
  • Forecasts without evidence they occurred somewhere unexpected.
  • Uncontained dangerous phenomena, active hail, or lightning longer than three seconds.
  • Clouds offered without title, custody, or a cooperative edge.
  • Weather removed from a community that still needs it.
If the phenomenon is dangerous or currently affecting a building, contact local safety services. The Museum acquisitions desk is not an emergency forecast.

Begin a specimen inquiry

Preliminary Conditions Statement / PCS-1
PROPOSED OBJECT: describe the weather and anything attached
PLACE FOUND: room, drawer, table, photograph, other
DATE FIRST OBSERVED: exact or atmospherically approximate
CURRENT CONDITION: active / bottled / folded / remembered
OWNERSHIP: how the weather came into your care
CONTACT: for Tuesday Panel correspondence

Send a written description before moving or packing the phenomenon. Photographs, floor plans, witness statements, and old labels are useful; personal forecasts are not required.

Documenting provenance

EvidenceUseful detailKeep original?
Witness accountWhere everyone stood when weather beganYes
PhotographInclude room edge and scale objectYes
ContainerWhen sealed and whether it objectedDo not open
Family labelNames, dates, crossed-out forecastYes
Floor planDoors, windows, dry escape routeCopy accepted

Packing guidance

  1. Wait for a curator’s written packing instruction.
  2. Do not reduce, improve, dry, warm, or rename the weather.
  3. Keep the original container with the original label, even if both are wrong.
  4. Use a second dry box and mark which side the horizon occupies.
  5. Never send active hail or thunder through ordinary post.

The Tuesday Conditions Panel

INQUIRY
READCUSTODY
CHECKEDWEATHER
VIEWEDDECISION
TUESDAY

The Panel may accept, decline, request more atmosphere, or refer a proposal to a more suitable institution. Acceptance transfers custody only after a deed of gift and a final condition forecast.