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The Museum Cats want to you know that Museums, Attractions, and many Event Venues remain Closed in North Carolina's Safer At Home Phase II Reopening Status.  Governor Roy Cooper signed an Executive Order, #155, on August 5, 2020.  It is the Extension of Phase Two Measures To Control The Public Health Risks And Save Lives in the COVID 19 Pandemic.


"To a cat, territory and personal; is paramount. When someone takes a cat from a cage it must invade its space. The cat reacts with aggression or fear. Neither is conducive to being chosen as a pet to adopt. In an open shelter, where cats are allowed to roam free their assumption of personal space is reduced. They can remain in a "safe zone" until they decide to take a chance to leave it and investigate the new elephant in the room, the person who comes in to find a cat to adopt. Then the cat comes to the person in a friendly frame of mind, and that person is more likely to adopt that cat than if had been taken from a cage with its guard up. This has been the way at Catman2 for the past 20 years and I hope others will follow our lead and never again jail a cat without just cause." ~ Harold Sims

Founder of the Catman2 Shelter and the Curator of the American Museum of the House Cat
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Little Works Of Art, the full documentary, is linked to the picture of our curator, Harold Sims, D.Ed.

Little Works of Art, a documentary by Kim Best, is the story of our Curator, Dr, Harold Sims.  Surviving as an introduction to our American Museum of the House Cat, this short film details the love and passion Dr, Sims feels for the Cat.  The Cary Theater featured Little Works of Art for their Local Premiers Series in November of 2017.  Little Works of Art then debuted at the 1st Annual New York Cat Film Festival in December of 2017 with the awarded honor of being chosen as the title feature for the Program Two and has been touring the country throughout 2018 with stops in cities and towns from the West Coast to the East Coast delighting cat lovers everywhere.  In 2018 Little Works of Art was one of the films officially selected for the LongLeaf Film Festival held at the North Carolina Museum of History.

Kim Best is a writer, editor, journalist, and videographer.  She finds the stories that need to be told and through the lens of her camera she captures the details others overlook. Her passion is is to educate and entertain her audience through visual arts and written word.  She has worked abroad and travels extensively and continues to find stories to tell wherever she goes.  ​

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An Art Museum in the Smoky Mountains Supporting a Cage Free No Kill Cat Shelter
5063 US Highway 441 South 
Sylva, North Carolina  28779
828.476.9376
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Harold Sims - Director and Curator
Kaleb Lynch - Catman2 Shelter Manager
​Kimberly Crow - Marketing and Social
 
Our status as a 501(c)3 Tax Exempt Public Charity can be verified on GuideStar and the IRS website.  Our EIN is 83-2370700.
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All Purr Pod Images Shared With Permission by the Artist and can be Found on Flickr.
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