"The following notes and exhibits, compiled from the files of the Archives, are a part of the raw material from which a real history of the Museum may be written. Until that time arrives, this bare and incomplete recital may serve as a useful survey."
"The first comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collections at the ten year mark. Includes the complete text of the now out-of-print series of guide leaflets, with full transcripts of many exhibits, including the Delani-Sonnabend Halls and the Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau. Ample black and white photos and illustrations."
[The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a conceptual art museum in Los Angeles: its exhibits mix hoaxes/fakes with incredible-but-real ones, daring the viewer to discern the difference between fake and reality. This book catalogues a number of MJT exhibits.]
Author(s): Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information
Publisher: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information Press (McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.)
Year: 2002
Language: English
Commentary: https://www.mjtgiftshop.org/products/the-museum-of-jurassic-technology-jubilee-catalogue
Pages: 124
Tags: Museum of Jurassic Technology, conceptual art, hoax, philosophy of science, epistemology, museum, knowledge, biology, anthropology
- Preface
- Introduction
- Foundations of the Museum
- Floorplan
A MISCELLANY OF OBJECTS FROM THE FOUNDATION COLLECTION
Ethnological and Zoological Holdings
- Horn of Mary Davis of Saughall
- Voice of the American Grey Fox (_Urocyon cinereoargenteus_)
- European Mole (_Talpa europea_)
- Gloves
- Old World or Asian Quail (_Coturnix coturnix_)
- Fruit-Stone Carving
- Ringnot Sloth
- Stink Ant of the Cameroon (_Megaloponera foetens_)
- Rose Collection
- Noah's Ark
- The Siege and Battle of Pravia
- Eugene Dubois and the Pithecanthropus Affair
Physical Phenomenae
- Life in the Extreme Ultraviolet
- Boules of Corundum
- Purification by Sublimation
EXHIBITS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
- Bernard Maston, Donald R. Griffith, and the Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau
- The Delam/Sonnabend Halls
_Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter_
_Historical Models of Memory_
- No one May Ever Have the Same Knowlege Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935
- Garden of Eden on Wheels: Selected Collections from Los Angeles Area Mobile Home and Trailer Parks
- The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian
- Tell the Bees... Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition
APPENDIX
Temporary exhibitions
- The Thums: Gardeners & Botanists (Hagen, Germany)
- Nanotechnology
- Of Science and Humanity: Treasures from the Mutter Museum
