The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Primi Decem Anni, Jubilee Catalogue)

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"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.] - 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