The smallest museum in St. Paul could fit into a fire-hose cabinet.

Actually, that’s exactly the plan.

Near University and Raymond avenues, the proprietors behind the Workhorse Coffee Bar are looking for “artists, historians and makers” to curate a small outer wall display on a rotating basis over the next year, a month at a time.

Selected curators will receive a $200 stipend to fill the vintage fire-hose cabinet, which is recessed into the outer wall next to the coffee shop’s front door at 2399 W. University Ave.

The coffee shop is slated to open later this year in the same space the Edge Coffee House once occupied. Details are online at workhorsecoffee.com, and the first exhibit will debut July 1.

The micro-museum installation is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Arts Challenge.