OWLS - Matchstick Museum
Thu, May 21
|Matchstick Museum
Osborne’s Next Older, Wiser, Livelier, Souls (OWLS) program will be on Thursday, May 21st. May’s destination will be a trip to the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Gladbrook, Iowa. Please meet at Osborne Park at 9:00 to carpool to the site.
Time & Location
May 21, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Matchstick Museum, 319 W 1st St, Gladbrook, IA 50635, USA
About the Event
Osborne’s Next Older, Wiser, Livelier, Souls (OWLS) program will be on Thursday, May 21st. May’s destination will be a trip to the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Gladbrook, Iowa. Please meet at Osborne Park at 9:00 to carpool to the site.
Join us for a fun trip to the Matchstick Museum to see the amazing and incredibly detailed sculptures Patrick Acton has created out of nearly 10 million wooden matchsticks. Simply amazing, many of his sculptures have been commissioned by Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Patrick was born in Greene County, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. He has been building matchstick models for 5 decades and in 2012 he retired to become a full-time matchstick artist.
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