No Oprah museum for all her talk show gifts and letters, says Oprah Winfrey ... who now has another plan for her show's memorabilia.

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Although production staff of talk show host Oprah Winfrey keeps asking the talk titan whether she's ''ever going to do a museum'' with all her talk show memorabilia, Oprah Winfrey's answer is an emphatic ''no''.

The Oprah Winfrey Show (SABC3, weekdays, 17:30) is wrapping up its 25th and final ''farewell season'' with the queen of talk who've amassed a wealth of letters, drawings, cards, photos and a wide variety of treasured keepsakes that famous guests and viewers have sent her over the past two and a half decades. Once she for instance lamented the absence of the existence of angel dolls that's black, and viewers started sending her some. Then there's the walls of the corridors at Harpo Studios in Chicago that's lined with thousands of photos – each showing Oprah Winfrey and the thousands of famous guests and often ordinary people – who've visited the show.

''Why would I do a museum?'' remarks Oprah Winfrey in the behind-the-scenes reality show Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes. ''What I've decided to do is to have in this new house that I'm building, to have a corridor. So that when you go down the corridor you can look at interesting things – like my guitar from The Edge [from rock band U2]. From over the years I have several guitars,'' she says.

She recently added a letter from movie star Hugh Jackman to her Famous Letters Box that stands in a corner in her Harpo office. Hugh Jackman wrote Oprah Winfrey a thank you card after his recent appearance on her show during her weeklong whirlwind visit to Australia and also sent her a team T-shirt that was added to the box. ''I've got everybody in there,'' says Oprah Winfrey. ''I've got to figure out a way to do them. Put them all in a book, or frame them.''

She initially thought about possibly doing a room with her prized Oprah Show memorabilia but have now opted for a corridor. ''I thought, 'Okay, build a room to put all this stuff in' like the guitars from Dolly Parton and Babyface. But it's better to place them around rather, so that they're interestingly placed. If you do put it all together, then it does start to look like a museum, and then it's no longer interesting,'' she says. ''People will go, 'You have a museum in your house', and that's not good.''