While I was staying at The Den in LA, a bunch of us went on a field trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. The main reason I wanted to go was the fact that no one who has been there seems to know how to describe it. Now I have been there myself and I don't know how to describe it either. I think every city should have a museum of perplexing things to explore. It would be fun to create one in Portland. Here's their website: www.mjt.org
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
While I was staying at The Den in LA, a bunch of us went on a field trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. The main reason I wanted to go was the fact that no one who has been there seems to know how to describe it. Now I have been there myself and I don't know how to describe it either. I think every city should have a museum of perplexing things to explore. It would be fun to create one in Portland. Here's their website: www.mjt.org
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I've never seen the MJT, but Portland used to have a museum of perplexing things called the Church of Elvis. Its curatrix/high priestess was even more perplexing. It was a small labyrinth of kitsch, art made from found objects, and bizarre interactive performance art. I miss it, and I don't even really understand what it was.
ReplyDeleteI wish the Church of Elvis was still around! I'd love to check it out. I keep day dreaming about creating things like this: an interactive museum/art environment kind of thing that people could wonder through. Every time I do an art show, that's secretly what I want it to actually turn into but there's never time, plus I'd want it to be able to be a more perminent structure that could be part of the community. Someday. Someday.
ReplyDeleteThe Museum of Jurassic Technology was explained to me as a museum in honor of museums--a "museum" being simply a collection of things that someone wants to display. That said, what GREAT idea! Obscure collections are nice, compact and comprehensive view into one area of interest. The MoJT was like an encyclopedia of human interest.
ReplyDeleteThoroughly enjoyed it. And my friend Bee works the counter in the gift shop!
I like that description. I keep daydreaming about building spaces to explore. Have you ever been to the House On the Rock in Wisconsin? Another mind blowing collection of weirdness worth seeing.
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