Blog #4- LakeLyn Bagge

        The Museum of Jurassic technology was an experience that I will never forget. From the very beginning of arriving at the museum, I felt very strange about where I was and what I was going to expect. I was waiting for this museum to look like an actual museum. Instead, it was a small dainty building located in Culver City, Los Angeles, next to a Thai food restaurant and a hot yoga studio. From the moment I stepped foot in front of the museum, I was instantly confused. I felt like I was on a set of an old vintage movies by the characteristics of the building. 
Walking into the museum, I felt like I was entering a haunted house. The lights were very dim, which added to the confusion of the experience. Immediately, I felt as if I was coming to a dream state in this alternative universe somewhere between art and science, but the distinction was not clear at all. My favorite exhibit in the museum was the room that contained so-called facts and information that was supposedly true. For example, as I was roaming through this dark space, I found myself mesmerized by looking at a pair of stuffed white mice on a piece of toast. I then discovered it was once considered a cure for bedwetting. I was so discombobulated by all the information in this room that I had many unexplained why’s floating through my head. What was this exhibition of many different folk cures doing in a museum for Jurassic Technology? I believe the founder and creator named the museum, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, in a way that had a meaning that was not so literal. I feel like it was to evoke a space where a dark and eerie environment could influence your imagination by allowing it to roam free. 
One thing that I found to be super exciting and inspiring was the room that contained hologram-like images that were to be viewed only in the individual prisms. There was one in particular of a taxidermy gray fox’s head. As you looked into the crystal, you can see a man growling, imitating a fox. As they became so intrigued in finding out how the individual prisms work, I noticed that there were small projections on the sides of these prisms that reflected into the lenses and was projected onto the fox’s head. The thing that made me the most interested was that you could only see the video if you looked inside of the prisms. The video was not visible anywhere else. 
This probably was the strangest museum I’ve ever been to, but I loved it. The odd thing is after I finished, I still didn’t know the connection between all the items in the name of the museum. It is a place that you come here and start to look more deeply about yourself and see the weirdness inside of you. I wish everyone could have experienced this museum together. It was so eventful and mind-blowing to experience it with multiple individuals. 








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