Editing Guinness World Records (section)

==Museums==
[[File:6764 Guinness.JPG|thumb|Guinness Museum in the [[Hollywood Theater (Los Angeles)|Hollywood Theater]] in [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]], California]]
In 1976, a ''Guinness Book of World Records'' museum opened in the [[Empire State Building]]. Speed shooter [[Bob Munden]] then went on tour promoting ''The Guinness Book of World Records'' by performing his record fast draws with a standard weight single-action revolver from a Western movie-type holster. His fastest time for a draw was 0.02 seconds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bob Munden • Six-Gun Magic Custom Gunsmithing – Bob & Becky Munden – Six-Gun Magic Gunwork |url=http://www.bobmunden.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509080154/http://www.bobmunden.com/ |archive-date=9 May 2008 |access-date=15 March 2008 |website=bobmunden.com}}</ref> Among exhibits were life-size statues of the world's tallest man, [[Robert Wadlow]], and world's largest [[earthworm]], an X-ray photo of a sword swallower, repeated lightning strike victim [[Roy Sullivan]]'s hat complete with lightning holes and a pair of gem-studded golf shoes on sale for $6,500.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leonard |first=John |title=[[The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge]] |year=2011 |chapter=In Praise of Facts}}</ref> The museum closed in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Travel & Outdoors – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: A 1995 Travel Retrospective – Seattle Times Newspaper |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19951231/2160261/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-a-1995-travel-retrospective |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114033446/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19951231&slug=2160261 |archive-date=14 November 2012 |access-date=14 April 2012 |website=nwsource.com}}</ref>

In more recent years, the Guinness company has permitted the [[franchising]] of small museums with displays based on the book, all currently ({{As of|2010|lc=y}}) located in towns popular with tourists: [[Tokyo]], [[Copenhagen]], [[San Antonio]].
There were once Guinness World Records museums and exhibitions at the [[London Trocadero]], [[Bangalore]], [[San Francisco]], [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina|Myrtle Beach]], [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]],<ref name="museum-orlando-lostparks">{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Robert H. |title=The Guinness World Records Experience: one of Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions |url=http://www.lostparks.com/guinness.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222060444/http://www.lostparks.com/guinness.html |archive-date=22 December 2008 |access-date=1 February 2009}}</ref> [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], New Jersey,<ref name="museum-locations">{{Cite web |last=Ripley Entertainment, Inc |title=Guinness World Records Experience Locations |url=http://www.guinnessattractions.com/locations.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120225858/http://guinnessattractions.com/locations.aspx |archive-date=20 January 2009 |access-date=1 February 2009}}</ref> and [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]].<ref name="museum-locations-archive" /> The Orlando museum, which closed in 2002, was branded ''The Guinness Records Experience'';<ref name="museum-orlando-lostparks" /> the Hollywood, [[Niagara Falls]], Copenhagen, and [[Gatlinburg, Tennessee|Gatlinburg]], Tennessee museums also previously featured this branding.<ref name="museum-locations-archive">{{Cite web |last=Ripley Entertainment, Inc. |date=20 November 2002 |title=Guinness World Records Experience Locations |url=http://www.guinnessattractions.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021120040920/http://www.guinnessattractions.com/ |archive-date=20 November 2002 |access-date=1 February 2009 |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine}}</ref>