I was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. Museums were my home away from home. While other children endure museums as a means of escaping the classroom, in my family it was a natural and welcome destination. An offshoot of these regular visits to Chicago area museums was the desire to someday have one of my own. It also helped that collecting objects was wired in my DNA.

After decades of collecting objets d’art and natural history specimens, I am ready to share these artifacts with the rest of the world. I have envisioned a museum dedicated to the arts and the sciences. I had envisioned naming this entity, the "Rodriguez Museum of the Arts and Sciences" (RMAS).

Eventually, luck and good fortune allowed my family to move into a high-rise building in a Chicago suburb and a very tolerant wife, Rebecca allowed me to furnish it with display cases stuffed with artifacts! From time to time, our building is enveloped in fog, so it became only natural to rename ourselves, "The Museum In The Clouds" (MITC). 

Now imagine walking into a museum and you see before you, two main halls. Above the hall on the left, you see, “HALL OF ARTS” and on the right, “HALL OF SCIENCES”.

The Arts Hall encompasses all things manmade. There will be items related to art, aviation, autographs, books, children's literature, currency, Chicagoland fairs, the Field Museum of Natural History, magazines, political, postcards, radio, postage stamps, and war.

The Sciences Hall contains examples of all things natural. There will be items related to animals, minerals, plants, prehistoric life and rocks.

Please note that there are taxidermy specimens contained within this website. My entire life, I have been an animal rights advocate. These two facts are not mutually exclusive. None of the animals within the museum were killed by me. Most were road kills but however they arrived in my possession, their physical form lives on. All sentient live is beautiful, and, in my museum, the sanctity of their lives and their beauty live on forever.

And now a few words… about words. With respect to the labeling, the descriptions seen in quotation marks represent the actual captioning supplied by the artifacts author or publisher. Just as one would not change musical notes written by a composer, one should not change words drafted by an author. These words should be read in the context of the time they were written. Therefore, I have elected not to change them into what one might expect to be written today but to quote them verbatim. The same thing goes for historical characters and symbols that are associated with evil. Rather than purge or erase them, they are included to reflect their place in history. The power of words and history, for good or ill, surrounds and connects us all.

Welcome to my collections. WELCOME to my cabinet of curiosities, my Museum In The Clouds!