If you asked most people an individual who best embodies “genius,” you’d probably be served the usual heaping of Beethoven, Mozart, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle, Tolstoy, Dickens — and of course Einstein. (And don’t forget Don Knotts as Barney Fife in “The Andy Griffith Show.”)

Just so’s you know, there IS a Genius Museum located in Montville’s Nature’s Art Village complex. The facility isn’t dedicated to individuals, per se, but rather replicates “a timeless town of American Retro Technology.” Each display space captures moments of forward-leaping industrial developments — from farm equipment to barber shops, phonographs to TV and cameras, printing presses, steam buggies, telephones and on and on.

You might think, “I can’t imagine being interested in looking at an archetypical dentist’s chair.” You’d be wrong. This place is pretty cool but a note: it’s only open Saturday and Sunday.

Genius Museum, 1650 Hartford-New London Turnpike, Route 85, Montville, 1-5 p.m. Sat.-Sun.; $9.75 ages 60+, $11.75 ages 18-59, $8.50 ages 5-17, free under 5; https://naturesartvillage.com/attraction/genius-museum, (860) 437-3615.