Osoyoos, B.C., man Paol Pedersen has grown a childhood passion into a retirement project that has earned him global recognition. Last week, his Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad museum won the annual Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice award for specialty museums. (Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad)Visitors may spend only an hour to watch all the tiny treasures, but it took the curator 50 years to build his imagined world. Pedersen's daughter Lotte joins her father to expand the mini railroad collection. (Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad)Tripadvisor has also named other Okanagan specialty museums, including Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre and Revelstoke Railway Museum, as Travellers' Choices for 2020.

Source: CBC News September 27, 2020 15:56 UTC