The Museum of Jurassic Technology at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, was founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988.[1][2] It calls itself "an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic",[3] the relevance of the term "Lower Jurassic" to the museum's collections being left uncertain and unexplained.[4]
The museum's collection includes a mixture of artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic items, as well as some unclassifiable exhibits; the diversity evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 16th-century predecessors of modern natural-history museums. The factual claims of many of the museum's exhibits strain credibility, provoking an array of interpretations.
David Hildebrand Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2001.[5][6]
- ^ David Wharton, "Weird Science : Palms' quirky Museum of Jurassic Technology offers curioser and curioser displays, likely to prompt more questions than they answer" , Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1989.
- ^ Tony Perrottet, " The Museum of Jurassic Technology: A throwback to the private museums of earlier centuries, this Los Angeles spot has a true hodgepodge of natural history artifacts" Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, Smithsonian, June 2011.
- ^ "Introduction and Background" Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine at Museum of Jurassic Technology official website (accessed 2012-10-10).
- ^ Edward Rothstein, "Where Outlandish Meets Landish" Archived 2017-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 9, 2012.
- ^ MacArthur Foundation Fellows List, 2001 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jurassic Genius David Wilson: Offbeat Museum Curator Wins Prestigious 'Genius Grant'" Archived 2018-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, NPR, October 27, 2001.