>Eric Siegel asks for memories of intentionally funny museums and
>exhibits.
>
>Some years ago in San Francisco (my best guess would be mid-1970's)
>the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park had a one-man show called
>"The Museum of Unnatural History." The artist had made huge
>ceramic bones and other "natural history" objects, and mounted them
>with pseudo-scholarly labels. The staff of the California Academy
>of Sciences, which *is* a natural history museum and is right
>across the band concourse from the DeYoung, all thought it was
>hilarious. I visited it several times. I suspect the "Museum of
>Jurassic Technology" in Los Angeles is similar.
>
>The Cal Academy had an exhibit a few years ago on Gary Larson that was a
>scream.
Robert
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