Culver City, California's Museum of Jurassic Technology

A Local Museum Where Weird Meets But-What-If-It's-True?

On a non-descript street in a non-descript section of Culver City, California--a suburb of West Los Angeles--sits the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Bland and ordinary from the outside, once you ring the bell and step inside the world seems to shift a little bit on its axis.

Ring the doorbell and a few moments later a large brown door swings open, it seems, by itself. An employee dressed in black with retro hair appears, ushering you into the darkness. Welcome to the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Its very name is a misnomer, and yet it seems apropos to this ten-room mélange of artifacts. The exhibits appear at best like alternative philosophy's best-kept secret and at worst a collection of posthumous mad researcher biographies and science fair losers.

Strolling through the museum's dimly lit maze one may not even be sure if many of the ideas are real, but the unique blend of fact, fiction, myth, and scientific fantasy are enough to stretch the mind's limits of what is veritably acceptable before crossing over into the ridiculous and irrelevant.

The basic foundations of science are built upon widely accepted theories succeeding multiple generations in disproof. But a different yardstick measures relevancy in the context of Jurassic technology - belief in an idea itself determines relevancy. It is the flux between doubting and believing in possibility that dictates satisfaction of a day and an entrance ticket well spent.

The central exhibit room features several concepts that introduce the world outside of accepted science. On the wall is a mounted horn that allegedly grew out of a woman's head. A glass-encased exhibit retells of an experiment conducted in the mid 1900's in which two scientists trapped a bat in a concrete wall after its sonar waves could not penetrate the wall's thickness in flight. Belief in this experiment, of course, is predicated on the acceptance that sonar waves resonate at a high enough frequency to be able to rematerialize matter.