One of things I wanted to do while in Long Grove was to visit the Sock Monkey Museum. I am not quite sure how I first came across the Sock Monkey Museum but it definitely sounded like a fun museum. I knew the hubby wouldn't be interested in it but it was a perfect girls weekend trip.
The Sock Monkey Museum is located downtown Long Grove. They are open 12-4 Thursday, Friday, and Sunday and 12-5 on Saturdays. There is plenty of free parking in the area. It is $6/adult and $4/child to visit.
The first floor is full of sock monkeys, a store, and an area where you can have birthday parties and sock monkey making classes.
Most of the museum is upstairs. A guide will take you upstairs and explain all about the history of sock monkeys, the various sock monkeys in the collection, and then let you browse the collection on your own. You can take all the pictures you want except for a special friend that greetings you when you enter the museum.
There are sock monkeys galore... in every nook and cranny imaginable.
They have their playroom which rumor has it is a lot of fun but no one has been able to catch as sock monkey having fun.. just heard them.
There is even a scavenger hunt. There are so many sock monkeys that even if the guides haven't found all the sock monkeys in the scavenger hunt. I found three in the short time we were there.
Of course no good novelty museum is complete without some pop culture references.
I even managed to find a sock monkey in Superman's Phone Booth.
This one is the oldest sock monkey in their collection.. almost 95 years old. From what I saw on Facebooks she now has her own throne.
We could have spent all day at the museum trying to find all the sock monkeys and I still don't think we would have seen them all.
The Sock Monkey Museum makes you feel like a kid again and is just a feel good museum. It is definitely worth checking if for no other reason that to see over 2200 sock monkeys.
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