When you think about looking at past history, often you imagine going to a museum and looking through the plexiglass cases. This involves looking at one item at a time and reading a long information card about how the item works and what it feels like. Another alternative is antique malls which can be the modern day museum. This is a whole new perspective than the “Do not Touch” and stay behind the barrier arrangement of a museum. Antique Malls are basically the opposite situation because they want you to interact and become attached to the items. Malls want you sample the merchandise and see how your grandfather used the tool to build your swing set and how grandmom worked so hard at the kitchen counter to make that chocolate pie with the hand mixer.
Antique Malls offer people vendors a way to sell collectibles, hard-to-find vintage items, and treasured antiques to a broad selection of professional antiquers or to vacationing families. Many people are much less likely to visit a museum than an antique mall on their vacation travels. Besides the greatest museum has a small percentage of the diversity of items that comes with years of collecting and saving that a vendor does. They will put their heart sole and effort searching for the best and most diversity in the items they consider their expertise. Then you get access to that knowledge and skill for free by looking through their booth in an antique mall. You can choose the kind of craft that you want to look at in each mall. You cannot walk through an Antique Mall and not see something from your past that catches your attention!
Malls offer a totally different perspective than an antique store or an antique shop. These offer the merchandise and view of one or two vendors. Antique malls have many people sharing a part of themselves to whoever want to view their efforts. Now if you are wondering what an antique is, here is an article to help you with that.
Here is an article written about why people love antique malls. It talks about how people can see more of our past going through these type of malls than going to a museum.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-antique-mall-grossman-20180802-story,amp.html