His record showed that he had once been a knife-thrower at a dime museum.

The crossed the street and went into a small park across from the Dime Museum.

"I know it does," the owner of the Dime Museum said.

It looks as if it came from a dime museum.

You couldn't pick it up and tote it away, to start a dime museum with.

In fact, it is nothing less than a real-deal evocation of 19th-century dime museums.

Weird and wonderful: the dime museum in America.

Water cascaded over the front of the Dime Museum.

The dime museum is but a memory now, and in three generations it will, in all probability, be utterly forgotten.

The two left the Dime Museum in companionable silence.