I was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. 

Museums were my home away from home. 

While other children endure museums as a means of escaping the classroom, in my family it was a natural and welcome destination. An offshoot of these regular visits to Chicago area museums was the desire to someday have one of my own. It also helped that collecting artifacts was wired in my DNA. Eventually, luck and good fortune allowed my family to move into a high-rise building in a Chicago suburb and a very tolerant wife, Rebecca allowed me to furnish it with display cases stuffed with artifacts! From time to time, our building is enveloped in fog, so it became only natural to name ourselves, "The Museum In The Clouds" (MITC). 

Please note that there are taxidermy specimens contained within this website. My entire life, I have been an animal rights advocate. These two facts are not mutually exclusive. All sentient life is beautiful, and, in my museum, the sanctity of their lives and their beauty live on forever.With respect to artifact labeling, descriptions seen in quotation marks represent the actual captioning supplied by the artifacts author or publisher. Just as one would not change musical notes written by a composer, or brush strokes by an artist, one should not change words drafted by an author. 

These words should be read in the context of the time they were written. The same thing goes for historical characters and symbols that are associated with evil. Rather than purge or erase them, they are included to reflect their place in history. The power of words and history, for good or ill, surrounds and connects us all.