psychoceramics: Re: Museum of Jurassic Technology

[twhelan @ bbn.com (Thomas Whelan)]

There's also a very good book about the Museum of Jurassic Technology by a New 
Yorker writer, Lawrence Wechsler: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders. Indeed, the 
museum is a put-on, but a put on of a very sophisticated sort. Some of the 
exhibits are quite factual, others are completely made-up, others are are 
intriguing mixture of fact and well-researched, completely straight-faced, 
pedantic leg-pulling.

The letter you quote from the MJT website is part of a collection of letters 
that kooks wrote to Mt.Wilson observatory, most of them before WW II. 
Typically, MJT presents them in a straightforward manner, as if they are 
science.

What is the museum all about? It's hard to say in a few words. Go to the 
museum or read the book.