UPI – A museum in Chicago shattered a Guinness World Record by exhibiting a remarkable assembly of 2,098 sock monkeys.
On a recent visit, Guinness World Records adjudicators Hannah Ortman and Chloe McCarthy inspected the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove. They confirmed the impressive collection comprised 2,098 distinct sock monkeys.
Museum’s owners Arlene and Michael Okun said they started collecting sock monkeys in 2006.
“We were travelling across the country in an RV, and we stopped at a Cracker Barrel, and I bought my first one,” Arlene Okun told The Daily Herald.
The collection grew with trips to estate sales, garage sales and antique stores. The museum was presented with a plaque verifying the record for the largest collection of sock monkeys.
