National Yo-Yo Museum

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Showcase with various exhibits

The National Yo-Yo Museum is a museum in Chico in US -Bundesstaat California , the topic yo-yos is dedicated.

story

In the late 1980s, Bob Malowney organized the first yo-yo competitions in Chico. In collaboration with the Chico Area Recreation District, he conducted trick competitions, which aroused increasing interest among the population in the early 1990s. At the same time as the events, Malowney began collecting yo-yos from all over the world. In 1993 he opened the National Yo-Yo Museum in Downtown Chico.

exhibition

"Big Yo"

With several thousand yo-yos and memorabilia , the museum houses what it claims to be the world's largest yo-yo collection. The exhibits mainly date from the 1920s to the present day.

The main attraction of the museum is Big Yo . The wooden yo-yo with a diameter of over 1.20 meters and a weight of around 116 kilograms was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records in 1982 as the "largest functioning wooden yo-yo in the world" . The yo-yo, an extremely enlarged version of the No Jive 3 in 1 model by the US yo-yo developer Tom Kuhn, was built in 1979 and is operated with a crane. As part of the National Yo-Yo Contest 2004, Big Yo was played again with a crane in front of the museum on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

Events

The museum regularly offers various yo-yo courses and events. On National Yo-Yo Day, which is celebrated in the United States on June 6, yo-yo demonstrations, competitions and tours are held in and around the museum every year. In addition, the National Yo-Yo League (NYYL) competitions in the USA are managed by museum founder Malowney and his team. The NYLL championship round is held annually in October as part of the US National Yo-Yo Contest in the museum, the winner then represents the USA at the international World Yo-Yo Contest .

Web links

Commons : National Yo-Yo Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Give the National Yo-Yo Museum a Spin. Explore Butte County, accessed November 2, 2021 .
  2. ^ A b c Jan Friedman: Eccentric California . Bradt Travel Guides, Chalfont St Peter 2005, ISBN 978-1-84162-126-5 , p. 76 f . (English).
  3. ^ The Rough Guide to California . Apa Publications, London 2020, ISBN 978-1-78919-660-3 , pp. 894 (English).
  4. ^ National Yo-Yo Museum. Explore Butte County, accessed November 2, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Noel Botham: The Amazing Book of Useless Information . Penguin Group, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4406-3571-7 , pp. 85 (English).
  6. ^ National Yo-Yo Day. National Yo-Yo Museum, accessed November 2, 2021 .

Coordinates: 39 ° 43 ′ 43.3 "  N , 121 ° 50 ′ 25.1"  W.