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“The Culver Steps is the project that is located in the heart of downtown Culver City, adjacent to multiple historic and iconic structures, and the large underground parking garage is very convenient with reasonable rates, walkable distance to many restaurants and coffee shops. I have come here a few times for dining and walking.”
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Museum Of Jurassic Technology
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. It calls itself “an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic”, the relevance of the term “Lower Jurassic” to the museum’s collections being left uncertain and unexplained.
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 Foundationfellowship in 2001.
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A few months ago, I entered the grand marble foyer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time since the pandemic began. Being inside the museum was like riding a bike, in that my body instinctively remembered where it wanted to go. And where it wanted to go, among other places, was straight to the gift shop. Standing between an array of Costume Institute postcards and a table groaning under the weight of lacquered trays and catalogues raisonnés and Art Deco chandelier earrings and embossed notepads and desk calendars and enamel lapel pins and leather journals and costumey amulets, I found myself having a consumerist strain of Stendhal syndrome. It had something to do with the fact that almost all of the items were appealing and none were even close to necessary. After the better part of two years shopping very little IRL, the stagy superfluousness of the Met shop jolted me right back into a state of pure purchasing pleasure.
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The Museum Of Jurassic Technology Visitor Information
Museum of Jurassic TechnologyGift shop and Bookstore.A wide range of books on science, technology, medicine, industry and other topics, including books suitable for both adults and children. In addition the shop offers a wide variety of gifts priced for every pocket, including adornments, commemorative china, stereoscopic viewing sets and souvenirs.
You may visit the shop without paying the Museum admission charge.
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Places to EatA number of nearby dining spots offer a wide variety of culinary pleasures. The available cuisine in the historic Palms District which surrounds the Museum range from exotic Thai and Indian dining to contential Italian and traditional American fare. All the surrounding cafes are reasonably priced and within easy walking distance of the Museum.
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Museum Spotlight: The Museum Of Jurassic Technology
Roughly two miles of the iconic Los Angeles roadway, Venice Boulevard, separates the greater L.A. districts of Culver City and The Palms. At the approximate median point of the Boulevards two miles is the odd and inconspicuous entrance of the Museum of Jurassic Technology , located on the corner of Bagley Avenue and Venice. The outside appearance of The MJT stands out from other businesses in the area its olive-green stucco façade is accented by a marble garden-wall-fountain. At the top of the building, between three sets of window panes, the green paint on the stucco is peeling off. It has a caged teal-green door that remains closed and only opens when visitors enter inside.
Initially founded in 1988 by David Wilson and his wife Diana, the MJT is an educational institution dedicated to advancing knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic . Most viewers enter the museum with the same question in mind: what is the Lower Jurassic, and what is Jurassic Technology? For a visitor of this museum, the answer may never become factually clear however, that is precisely the point of an encounter with the MJT that makes it different from other museums. The MJT does not give its visitors any answers, and it does not claim any veracity to its teachings.
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
To find the Museum of Jurassic Technology, you navigate the sidewalks of Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, ring a brass buzzer at a facade that evokes a Roman mausoleum and enter a dark, hushed antechamber filled with antique-looking display cases, trinkets and taxidermic animals. After making a suggested $5 donation, you are ushered into a maze of corridors containing softly lit exhibits. There are a European mole skeleton, extinct French moths and glittering gems, a study of the stink ant of Cameroon and a ghostly South American bat, complete with extended text by 19th-century scientists. The sounds of chirping crickets and cascading water follow your steps. Opera arias waft from one chamber. Telephone receivers at listening stations offer recorded narration about the exhibits. Wooden cabinets contain holograms that can be viewed through special prisms and other viewing devices, revealing, for example, robed figures at the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, or a man growling like an animal in front of a gray foxs head.