Office of Collecting & Design

Run don't walk to the Office of Collecting and Design. Inside our beloved commercial center. It's a tiny museum made of tiny collections by artist Jessica Oreck. It's truly amazing space of wonder and delight. Somewhere you could spend hours exploring. An artists dream space with tiny curations organized in the most beautifully chaotic OCD way. Go for inspiration and amazement. They are open by appointment daily OR open to walk ins on Wednesdays. They run off of donation and gift shop purchases. They also do a really cool flatlay experience by appointment. I would leave small kids at home (as a general etiquette rule) especially for this place because there are many breakable items.

I had a lovely time at OCD. If you love collections, miniatures, and interactive experiences, you'll love this uniquely wonderful collection of curios and everyday objects. Jessica was a fantastic host for our visit and was very kind and easy to talk to. We had a splendid time taking in the collections and making our own flat lays. I have been obsessed with miniatures since I was a kid so exploring her space and collecting items to make my own flat lay image was a dream. We highly recommend you come visit and support her lovely museum if you're in Vegas and looking for something unique and interesting to do. That being said, I do not recommend you bring children to OCD. The museum is almost exclusively filled with small, breakable, swallow-able, and largely irreplaceable objects. This is an experience fit for adults who are into the niche of oddity collections and who will respect the museum property!

A delightful little museum of tiny things, and an incredible opportunity to bring home the most unique souvenir you can imagine by making your own flatlay. Don't miss it!

When I was a child, my great grandmother lived up my street alone in the house she raised my grandmother in. In her old age, she only made use of the tv room, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The rest of the house went unused, darkened by heavy ceiling to floor draperies. I remember curiously sneaking around those fully furnished still rooms, pouring over knickknack artifacts, feeling the freeze of time. I was surely in the presence of ghosts, or so the context would have me believe.The Office of Collecting and Design provides similar objects an entirely new context, offering each a new lease on life, a chance at salvation. The result is perhaps the most endearing assembly of banality anywhere? The collection is treated with a level of care and focus that knows no hierarchy. Each object is of equal value. Clearly the Office of Collecting and Design's acronym is no accident?So what exactly is the Office of Collecting and Design? There is no easy answer. An object is a finite, static, three dimensional form. The beauty of the collection is the way in which it presents ordinarily fixed moments as subjective experience. Individually, and as a cohesive collection, such moments are no longer definitively definable. They do not exist within these terms. They grow, take on meaning, morph, and animate due to relationships and the whims of associations- truly an emerging, collective, living system of creativity.There's a paradox that exists between escapism and authenticity. On the one hand, the demand of what feels like the inauthentic experience of modern life calls for constant escape. On the other, that void is too often filled with the inauthentic itself and thus doesn't satisfy the need. When the time comes for your escape, the Office of Collecting and Design is there for you. It's a tucked away safe haven, waiting to welcome you back to an authentic world you already know, a world that most likely slipped past your perceptual radar long ago without you ever noticing.

My wife and I loved our experience at the Office of Collecting. We both made overlays - this is art you create from the vast number of items in the Office of Collecting. You take the small objects, arrange them on a black matt, and then leave with a high resolution digital image and a polaroid print of your art. We could have spent the entire day there working on projects. Jessica was a great host and provided a fun afternoon. You need to book in advance to create an overlay.

This small hidden gem is the most charming and intimate experience. It is both sweet and macabre, with something catching your eye everywhere you turn. Strange how a place can be both relaxing and tantalizing at the same time, it's magical. If you want to be inspired or take your mind on a journey, check this place out!!! It's one of my new favorite places on Earth.