I've said this before, but it's been a while:  the Museum
of Jurassic Technology is a brilliant meditation on how
museums shape knowledge and should be required viewing
for anyone who makes exhibits or has responsibility for
collections.

The orientation film alone is worth the
price of membership for anyone who has taken museum-
studies classes -- see if you can detect the moment when
the sonorous narrative diverges from actual museum
history into hysterically plausible fantasy riffs.

The pervasive wit can be a bit intimidating.  At times
I wondered if I was getting it.  It helped to have a
12-year-old along to explain it to me, or to ask the
right questions.

Matt Roth
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