Leila's Hair Museum

[1] Hairwork also consisted of necklaces, bracelets, rings, lockets, paintings and medallions embellished with strands of hair.

[1] Leila Cohoon is a retired cosmetology teacher living in Independence, Missouri, who started collecting hair in 1956 and considers it to be her life work.

[3][4] In 1990, having begun to run out of space in her home for her hairwork collection, Cohoon opened her hair museum in a small front room in the Independence School of Cosmetology (which she founded in 1960).

[4] The new location for the museum consists of multiple rooms with walls covered from top to bottom with hairworks.

[8] The museum also has hair from Elvis Presley, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Aaron Burr, Marilyn Monroe, singer Jenny Lind, and abolitionist John Brown.