Event 2 : Museum of Jurassic Technology

The museum I chose for the second event is the Museum of Jurassic Technology. The name of the museum seemed a bit weird to me at first, but later I learned that the naming of the museum has something to do with the term "Lower Jurassic", or "Early Jurassic", during which humans have many uncertainties about, indicating the theme of collections of the museum to be about objects with uncertainty and vagueness.


Due to the constraint of time, I wasn't able to fully tour the museum, but I was very impressed by several main topics in the objects exhibited: microminiatures/micromosaics, a group of mythical animals, and ancient medical treatments. 



The collections of microminiatures by Hagop Sandaldjian and micromosaics by Harold "Henry" Dalton are the most impressive for me. Sandaldjian's microminiature works are beyond magnificent, with its unbelievable preciseness and vividness on a microscopic scale; while the micromosaics is a perfect illustration of the intersection between arts and technology. Looking at their works also reminded me of the topic of arts and nanotechnology we learned this week, and I was thinking it would be very cool if artists start to incorporate nanotech materials as the base of their microminiature/micromosaic creations. And with the rapid development of technologies and new materials, I am hopeful that artists will be able to make arts using not only nanotech or the topics we covered in this class, but also a wide range of techniques and materials in the near future, expanding the creation of arts to be more diverse and fruitful.



Reference List:

1. “Museum of Jurassic Technology.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Jan. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Jurassic_Technology.

2. “Early Jurassic.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Mar. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Jurassic.

3. “Micro Miniature.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Nov. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_miniature.

4. “Micromosaic.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Oct. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromosaic.

5. “Cabinet of Curiosities.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Apr. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities.

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