Museum of Jurassic Technology

Chris and I had lunch at the historic Culver Hotel and roamed over to the Museum of Jurassic Technology on Friday.  The museum is located on Venice Blvd. at Main in Culver City.  It was founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson on 1988.  It calls itself "an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic."   The term Lower Jurassic is not explained.  The two story building is a labyrinth of dimly lit rooms and halls with strange exhibits that are artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic.  The museum describes the term museum as "a spot dedicated to the Muses, a place where man's mind could attain a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs."

The exhibits include The Garden of Eden on Wheels:  Collections from L.A. area Trailer Parks; Microminitures of Hagop Sandaljian:  A collection of micro-miniature sculptures, each carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle; Microscopic mosaics from the 19th century depicting flowers, animals, etc made from butterfly wing scales; Rotten Luck:  Decaying Dice once owned by magician Ricky Jay; Oil portraits of the dogs of the Soviet Space Program; and rotting mice on toast.

On the second floor is a Tula Tea Room, a Russian-style tea room where Georgian tea and cookies are served...a miniature  reconstruction of the study of Tsar Nicolas II from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Then up a few steps into a bird house you can walk through...semi outside. 

Tis all very interesting and strange in a delightful way.