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"  Do you consider yourself a pizza connoisseur? So does Brian Dwyer, the owner of the largest collection of pizza-themed memorabilia in the world. And now Brian has made it his personal mission to open the first museum dedicated solely to America&amp;#039;s favorite food \u2014 pizza. According to Serious Eats, the newest addition to the world of food museums, called &amp;quot;Pizza Brain,&amp;quot; will open in late spring or early summer of this year. The museum will draw in pizza fans to view its collectibles, but also for some servings of food \u2014 pizza, of course. Two chefs have been hired for the job, and they have been working hard to come up with some fun new pizza recipes. While the menu will obviously include the classics, such as Margherita and pepperoni pizzas, some specialty pizzas will also be available, such as a caramelized onion, gruy\u00E8re, and thyme French onion soup pizza. The Huffington Post reports that Dwyer began collecting pizza memorabilia during his college years, seeking out pizza-themed records as decorations for his music studio. As his collection grew, he also began searching for tasty pizza in his everyday life. It wasn&amp;#039;t until May 2010 that the idea for a true pizza collection began to form. Dwyer and his friends decided to host a pizza-themed art show in Philadelphia and asked guests to create pizza-related artwork to bring to the event. Called &amp;quot;Give Pizza Chance,&amp;quot; the event was an immediate success. Three hundred people showed up with pizza art to share. It was at that moment that Dwyer began to understand the true potential for pizza as an art form. Dwyer then began officially collecting pizza memorabilia, finding everything from comic books and vinyl records to odd items that once belonged to pizza chains. As word spread about his endeavor, Dwyer received pizza finds from many people who supported his project, reaffirming America&amp;#039;s strong affinity for the pies. As Dwyer continued his search for pizza-themed collectables, he started to imagine housing his finds in a pizzeria and calling his collection the biggest on the eastern seaboard. When Dwyer took the time to do some internet searching, he found some shocking information: no one else was publicly collecting pizza memorabilia, and despite the world&amp;#039;s ever-growing love of pizza, no pizza museum existed. Then, after Dwyer received a Guinness World Record title for the largest pizza memorabilia collection in the world, the pizza museum seemed like an even better idea. Dwyer started renovating a building in Fishtown, Philadelphia, for the museum space, which is set to open in late spring or early summer. But Dwyer still doesn&amp;#039;t have enough money to complete the museum. He hopes to raise the $15,000 he still needs on Kickstarter, an online fundraising program for creative projects. So far he has received a steady flow of donations, which means Dwyer could meet his opening date, making his museum the the world&amp;#039;s first dedicated solely to pizza. Don&amp;#039;t be fooled by the strangeness of a one-food museum. In fact, there are many museums that are centered around single foods. Take, for example, the National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin, which houses 5,350 different kinds of mustards and hosts a huge party every year on National Mustard Day. Even stranger is the museum dedicated to SPAM located in Austin, Texas. This free attraction allows guests to can their own SPAM and browse SPAM collectibles. Other food museums are also dedicated to single ingredients, including the Washington Banana Museum and the Ramen Museum in Japan. Would you visit Pizza Brain, the world&amp;#039;s first pizza museum? Have you been to any museums that focus on one specific food? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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