{"id":3291,"date":"2016-11-19T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2016-11-19T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T03:40:09","slug":"museum-of-jurassic-technology-cultures-of-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2016\/11\/19\/museum-of-jurassic-technology-cultures-of-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Jurassic Technology and Cultures of Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/strong> in Los Angeles holds many splendid,
\nunique, and puzzling treasures. It’s a carnival of delights and ideas, weaving
\nart and science, fiction and data, all together into something enchanting and
\njoyful. In this first of two segments on the museum, curator David Wilson (and artist)
\ndescribes the origins of the project. He says, “I wanted to know, I was
\ncompelled to know, what would happen if a person put everything they had, all of their emotional, financial, spiritual resources behind a single project.” From\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DC1nSF9v3RA<\/p>\n

Together in class we’ll watch Inhaling the Spore: A Journey Through the Museum of Jurassic Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inhaling the breath of a duck, according to the exhibit, was once used to cure children of thrush and other disorders of the mouth and throat. (Ann Summa)<\/span><\/figcaption>
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From a display in the museum, Mice on toast are presented as historic \u00a0cure for bedwetting.<\/div>\n
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From a museum display of animal and “human horns.”<\/div>\n
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