Greetings family, friends, and neighbors. Today's snippet "Museum of Jurassic Technology" is about a modern day roadside attraction that stretches the imagination and intentionally confuses reality with malarky......,,Bill
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MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY
Our mom had a word for things she believed to be nonsense, questionable, or outright untrue and she would remark “that’s a bunch of malarkey!”
In a small nondescript storefront on Venice Blvd, in downtown Culver City, tucked between a carpet store and abandoned offices, and near a auto body shop and busy In-and-Out Burger, is located David and Diana Wilson’s unlikely Museum of Jurassic Technology. More than twenty five thousand visitor’s a year have made their way to this West Los Angeles location since 1988 to view the museums eclectic collection of artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic items as well as it’s dozens of intriguing unclassifiable and questionable exhibits themed in the style of sixteenth century Cabinets of Curiosities.
Among the museums far ranging esoteric topics are Maston and Griffith’s Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau investigation into a species of bats that have advanced their innate ability of flying in the dark to being able to pierce solid walls, Tell the Bees: Belief, Knowledge, and Hypersymbolic Cognition, an exhibit of pre-scientific medical equipment, cures and remedies, The Unique World of Microminiatures collection of sculptures of famous people and Disney characters carved from single human hairs and displayed within an eye of a needle, and the Garden of Eden on Wheels dioramas display of 1950’s Los Angeles area trailer parks.
Before taking a break in the museum’s Tea room and enjoying the oil portrait gallery of the heroic cosmonaut canines The Dogs of the Soviet Space Program, visitors can check out The Decaying dice of Ricky Jay: A collection of decomposing antique dice once owned by magician Ricky Jay, inspect the horn removed from the head of unfortunate Mary Davis of Saughall, Tradescant Fruit stone carvings, Centaur bones excavated in Greece, and a surprisingly large collection of miscellaneous foreign objects extracted from windpipes and digestive tracts of various choking patients of doctor Chavallie Jackson, and not to be missed, an African stink ant with a horn sprouting from it’s tiny head.
A priceless scientific collection, the work of a modern day PT Barnum…or “just a bunch of malarkey”? -Bill 11/25
Vintage Postcard: Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau
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