Lunch Box Museum

The Lunchbox Museum offers a nostalgic trip back through time, featuring lunchboxes from the 1950's through the 1980's. The metal lunchboxes on display are familiar and help people reminisce about their own days of heading off to school with their sandwiches and thermos' packed in a lunchbox. The collection includes everything form super heroes to presidents to television and cartoons characters. Metal lunchboxes fell out of favor in the 1980's and began making the meal totes in plastic, but according to Allen Woodall, Jr., the metal pails never lost their intrigue. Woodall is the owner of the museum and the co-author of a book on collection metal lunchboxes. The number of boxes in the museum is unknown, but Woodall knows the collection must number in the thousands. The museum entrance area features what Woodall calls his Barter Room. This is where he keeps duplicate lunchboxes that he is willing to trade or sell. The museum itself is one large room, lined with shelves six levels high. The lunchboxes are arranged alphabetically, so it is easy to find your all-time favorite character. There are also boxes hanging from the ceiling and sitting on tables and chairs. Woodall allows and encourages people to touch the boxes and enjoy that familiar feeling of snapping your lunchbox back together after your afternoon meal. There are rare boxes he keeps tucked away and some of them are worth more than $10,000.