The museum's attractions include sheets of tattoo "flash," or art. The art is collected from "anyplace you can get your hands on it," says tattoo artist George Dobson. 

Co-owner Stevenson (right) says artists sometimes bring in art for the museum to use, and sometimes the museum scouts out good art through word-of-mouth. One of the museum's purposes is to display what good quality tattoo art should look like, Dobson says. "There's a lot of new-school type tattoos...out there," he says. Much of it isn't up to the museum's standards. Back -1 -2- 3 - 4 - 5      Next Photos and text by Fanen Chiahemen Published Friday, May 9, 2003

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