A most amazing journey with an elloqent guide: Honestly, when I worked in Culver City, I would drive by the Museum of Jurassic Technology and wonder just what was in there. I read the articles in the L.A. Times and still I could not understand what it was about. And even when I finally got to the museum, I was mystified. What was the connection? What was it all about? Finally, I have my answer. And more. This book was a superlative read. Mr Weschler never flags in his focus and his precision of language and yet doesn't overwhelm his subject matter. It would be so easy to try and write a fictional story about the museum as opposed to trying to distill and tell the real story. It is very slippery! You will not be dissappointed in this book. And you don't have to go to the museum to enjoy it. But if you read the book, you will be COMPELLED to visit the museum.

The world is a curio cabinet. Doubt is not to be feared, but welcomed.

“The visitor to the Museum of Jurassic Technology continuously finds himself shimmering between wondering at (the marvels of nature) and wondering whether (any of this could possibly be true). And it’s that very shimmer, the capacity for such delicious confusion, that may constitute the most blessedly wonderful thing about being human.”

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As good as the book is, the museum itself is even better. If you're ever in West LA, I highly recommend it. I've been three times. The last time I went, I brought my museum-nerd friend who thought it was one of the best she's ever been to in terms of presentation.

The best part of the book was learning which exhibits were based in reality and which ones were more whimsical, and finding out that on many of them, I was completely wrong as to which were which. Truth is stranger than fiction!

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A small book which opens vistas how thinking about museums and their collections. While reading, I also thought about taxonomy and how we organize the stuff we are surronded by. ( )

An endearing extended essay on a very eccentric man and his museum. ( )