Tag: Museum of Modern Mythology
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Upstart California museum acquires mythic ad characters
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Valley Relics Museum of Van Nuys, California, has acquired a collection of 3,000 advertising characters once housed in the galleries of the Museum of Modern Mythology in San Francisco, founder Tommy Gelinas announced today.
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Ellen Havre Weis, founder of San Francisco pop culture museum, dies at 64
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Ellen Havre Weis, founder of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Mythology, died Tuesday, July 27. The cause was brain cancer, her husband, Gordon Whiting, announced today. Weis was sixty-four. Weis and her husband formed WeisPR in 1994 in Berkeley, California.