Museum of Jurassic Technology
Museum of Jurassic Technology
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12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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- Expo/Western • 9 min walk
- Culver City • 9 min walk
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4.0
231 reviews
Excellent
132
Very good
44
Average
32
Poor
11
Terrible
12
Rachel A
1 contribution
Nov 2022
I absolutely love this place. They have some of the most random and bizarre exhibits that you won't see anywhere else. It also has a lovely tea room and aviary. Definitely recommend it for people who enjoy things that are quirky and weird. Tickets are also very reasonably priced at $12 (definitely worth the experience).
Written November 3, 2022
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Ramen67
Santa Monica, CA65 contributions
May 2022
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is one of my favourite places in Los Angeles; a private museum that blends facts and fictions framed as museological exhibitions. A museum about museum displays and veracity. LOVE IT
Written May 26, 2022
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Ray S
Brea, CA1,122 contributions
Jan 2023
I had visited this museum about 30 years ago and looked forward to this visit. I recall it was very dark inside with hard to see exhibits and items. I took a small flashlight. (Cell phone light would get suspicious). It was OK, but not great. The place is still dimly lit with some wall hangings not lit at all. Also it says ADA friendly on the first floor, but only the main pathways. There are alcoves with interesting item that are not accessible. Its worth the visit for the oddities but you will leave wishing you could have seen the displays better. Parking is a problem. Sidewalks are not ADA friendly.
Written January 11, 2023
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Burak Y
New York City, NY10 contributions
Sep 2022 • Solo
This place should be banned to call itself "museum". You cannot sell drainage water calling ut orange juice, how come it doesn't apply on this scam. An etnic restaurant walls with 4-5 authentic pieces hanged, deserve to be called museum more than this place. They may have picked some crap from the trash can of the street and making a social experiment by displaying those crap in a tiny pathetic dark space
Written October 1, 2022
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Chuck
4 contributions
Sep 2020
Don't research it, just go!
This is the top spot I refer people to when they visit LA. Perfect for anyone interested in contemporary art, specifically institutional critique. I've visited several times, and I always find something new when I go.
Probably not an ideal museum for children.
This is the top spot I refer people to when they visit LA. Perfect for anyone interested in contemporary art, specifically institutional critique. I've visited several times, and I always find something new when I go.
Probably not an ideal museum for children.
Written August 11, 2021
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shaaka
Honolulu, HI5 contributions
May 2020 • Couples
This is one of the best places in LA. Its hidden treasure can only be appreciated if you leave pretense on the sidewalk.
I went several times, took different people that i thought could understand what they were immersed in. Don't go here expecting MoMA. I hope you leave with a feeling that they are equivalent experiences. Im only writing this because there's a 2point rate with a long dissertation dissing this place.
I went several times, took different people that i thought could understand what they were immersed in. Don't go here expecting MoMA. I hope you leave with a feeling that they are equivalent experiences. Im only writing this because there's a 2point rate with a long dissertation dissing this place.
Written April 26, 2021
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Chicago52
Chicago, IL16 contributions
Jun 2018 • Family
First off this is not your typical museum, for those people expecting a typical museum, you will not like it. The point is not necessarily the objects on display but the display itself. The displays, the galleries, the garden, and the overall vibe are impeccably done, all contributing to a general aesthetic explicitly designed to mimic really, really old museums, the dark, dank ones with placards drier than the Atacama Desert and musty dioramas of animals frozen in time.
I mean, this is a museum with an entire room dedicated to a (highly fictitious) history of mobile homes, augmented with what's ostensibly collections of artifacts from what the reader can tell are really just trailer park bums. This is a museum with a entire exhibit dedicated to superstitious folk remedies, with a diorama of a human mouth biting down on a duck's beak, right next to open-faced mouse sandwiches. So go to the Museum of Jurassic Technology not for education, but for sensation, to immerse yourself in a smorgasbord of curios and anomalies, to soak in the strangeness, and leave not feeling enlightened, but very, very confused.
I mean, this is a museum with an entire room dedicated to a (highly fictitious) history of mobile homes, augmented with what's ostensibly collections of artifacts from what the reader can tell are really just trailer park bums. This is a museum with a entire exhibit dedicated to superstitious folk remedies, with a diorama of a human mouth biting down on a duck's beak, right next to open-faced mouse sandwiches. So go to the Museum of Jurassic Technology not for education, but for sensation, to immerse yourself in a smorgasbord of curios and anomalies, to soak in the strangeness, and leave not feeling enlightened, but very, very confused.
Written June 17, 2018
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metrazol
Washington DC, DC57 contributions
Aug 2019
An amazing, tiny, dark, cramp, unsettling and fantastic museum. Don't research it too much, just expect to be mystified and befuddled and confused and amazed. One of my favorite places in the world, and it's right across from downtown Culver City. Worth a visit.
Written August 20, 2019
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Taylor K
San Diego, CA943 contributions
Sep 2014 • Friends
Regarding the Museum of Jurassic Technology, I have good news and bad news. On the good side, it is highly original, unusual, esoteric and occasionally intriguing, presenting the visitor with arcana seen nowhere else. On the negative side of the ledger, it is very narrow in its appeal, as well as bafflingly cryptic, annoyingly disjointed, occasionally misleading, often boring, and rather meager in content. The main exhibits on offer when I was there — about a bat called the "Deprong Mori"; a neurophysiologist and memory researcher named Geoffrey Sonnabend; the Russian philosopher, futurist and techno-visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; and a portrait gallery of dogs used in the Soviet space program — had little or no connection with each other. An introductory film promised that as one went deeper into the museum the exhibits would go further back in time, but this was not at all true.
Above all, everything was just too darn dark. This was true in terms of both light and sound. The exhibits were so poorly lit that it was often difficult to see them clearly, or read what little written information was provided. To get the full story of an exhibit, one had to pick up a phone and listen to a recording. But these were close to inaudible, one was in German, and ... all ... were ... very ... slow ... paced. Zzzzzz.
SPOILER ALERT: READ NO FURTHER IF YOU STILL WANT TO VISIT THIS PLACE.
Actually, and as its name warns, the Museum of Jurassic Technology turns out to be in large part a hoax, an elaborate joke, played on the visitor who comes with expectations of seeing the normal sort of museum, one that deals with scientific and historical fact. The aforementioned Sonnabend and Deprong Mori exhibits are complete fictions, but their stories are presented in such a deadpan, pseudo-scientific style that for a while the listener is taken in.
But to appreciate the joke requires a long process most people will probably not wish to endure. The visitor must come unawares, with his "normal" expectations, and then be willing to invest several hours (as well as the $8.00 admission fee) listening to the slow recorded narratives, and finally realize at the end that it was all an elaborate put-on.
Personally, I got bored and frustrated much too fast to even get close to the joke's abstruse punch line, much less enjoy it. And on the whole I regard the time and money I spent there as wasted. Rather than visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology, I recommend reading this article:
http://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=specs
It will give you as full an understanding and appreciation of it as you would get by going there, without such a waste of time and money.
Above all, everything was just too darn dark. This was true in terms of both light and sound. The exhibits were so poorly lit that it was often difficult to see them clearly, or read what little written information was provided. To get the full story of an exhibit, one had to pick up a phone and listen to a recording. But these were close to inaudible, one was in German, and ... all ... were ... very ... slow ... paced. Zzzzzz.
SPOILER ALERT: READ NO FURTHER IF YOU STILL WANT TO VISIT THIS PLACE.
Actually, and as its name warns, the Museum of Jurassic Technology turns out to be in large part a hoax, an elaborate joke, played on the visitor who comes with expectations of seeing the normal sort of museum, one that deals with scientific and historical fact. The aforementioned Sonnabend and Deprong Mori exhibits are complete fictions, but their stories are presented in such a deadpan, pseudo-scientific style that for a while the listener is taken in.
But to appreciate the joke requires a long process most people will probably not wish to endure. The visitor must come unawares, with his "normal" expectations, and then be willing to invest several hours (as well as the $8.00 admission fee) listening to the slow recorded narratives, and finally realize at the end that it was all an elaborate put-on.
Personally, I got bored and frustrated much too fast to even get close to the joke's abstruse punch line, much less enjoy it. And on the whole I regard the time and money I spent there as wasted. Rather than visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology, I recommend reading this article:
http://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=specs
It will give you as full an understanding and appreciation of it as you would get by going there, without such a waste of time and money.
Written October 14, 2014
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3DDavid
Culver City, CA17 contributions
Sep 2019
Interesting exhibits from micromosaics made of butterfly wings that must be seen through a microscope, to exhibits of foklore, myth, and more, -- all presented in very interesting ways. Has a lovely Tea Room for tea and cookies, and a rooftop garden with white doves.
Written October 2, 2019
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Museum of Jurassic Technology (Culver City) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go
Frequently Asked Questions about Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Museum of Jurassic Technology is open:
- Thu - Thu 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Fri - Sun 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Hotels near Museum of Jurassic Technology:
- (0.13 mi) The Culver Hotel
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- (2.50 mi) Fairmont Century Plaza
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