(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – The Museum of Science and Industry is devoting exhibit space to a beloved souvenir.
If you've been to any major attraction in the Chicago area, you know the sound and smell of the Mold-A-Rama.
For decades, visitors to the museum have been getting miniature spaceships, trains, and submarines from the machines, which make the objects from injected plastic.
The process was developed by inventor John Miller in Quincy, Illinois, says Jeff Buonomo, deputy director of featured experiences. Mold-A-Rama has been part of MSI's DNA for 55 years, he notes.
“We had our first one in 1967, and I believe it was a quarter back then, for the Abraham Lincoln bust.”
“Mold-A-Rama: Molded for the Future” features hundreds of molds from throughout the decades. It will run through next fall.
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