Find a Bead Store or Bead Club Online With MapMuse

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A few days ago I received an email from MapMuse.com that really intrigued me. It turns out they’ve created an online map where you can search for Bead Shops and Beading Clubs throughout the US. You can just go to the map and either browse by a general area or town or actually zoom into a specific zip code!

Once you find all the beading stores on the map, you can hover your mouse over each location and a little pop up window appears, giving you the location of that store as well as information submitted by volunteers about the specialties of the beading shop you’re looking at.

Since they’ve started the project they have had over 400 contributions and changes to the map, but now they’re asking for our help! You can add other stores and clubs you know about and you can inform the site if a store has closed. They’re even thinking about adding additional features including a beading blog and a beading message board in the future!

I think this is a great opportunity for bead jewelry artists to help each other identify great new bead shops and bead clubs. This is a great example of how the Internet can use the resources of people from all over the world to better the entire beading community.

And being listed on MapMuse for other bead jewelry enthusiasts to find can only help the bead stores and clubs we suggest. The more people we get interested in beads, the more these bead stores and shops will thrive and continue to grow!