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Project #1:10 Response to the film: Museum of Jurasic Technology: Inhaling the Spore






Your response must speak to the information delivered in the film. 


i. Give background information:
Founder/Director/Curator
Date
Location
Funding received?
Still open today?

ii. Select 2 artifacts and state information about them -- be specific with their details!
- Where do the objects come from?
- What do they represent?

iii.  What does Lawrence Weschler suggest about "slippage" in creativity and imagination within the MJT Museum?  In other words, what do you think the spirit of the place really is? And the human capacity for wonder.

iv. What symbolic idea is represented by the Stink Ant that inhales the spore?  Explain the symbiotic relationship of the Stink Ant raining down spores to affect others.  Connect to the link below for further information.

RE: MEGOLAPONERA FOETENS STINK ANT OF THE CAMEROON, WEST CENTRAL AFRICA

v. Connect to the Source Material below > i and ii and give additional details about MJT.


Source Materials:
i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Jurassic_Technology

 ii. INHALING THE SPORE , By: Weschler, Lawrence, Harper's Magazine, 0017789X, Sep94, Vol. 289, Issue 1732

 Stanford Libraries: A Journey Through

 MJT Gift Shop



Lawrence Weschler turns his essay in Harper's magazine into the book:
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder


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