David and Diana Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology continues to draw praise from cultural thought leaders—and one-star reviews from online critics who just don’t get it. A selection of Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Google reviews:
“The introduction movie and other movies are full of random words without any coherent ideas. I felt like I had had a stroke in the area of the brain that analyzes meaning of language; I understood all the words but couldn’t discern any intent behind them.”
—Yelp, April 25, 2015
“It’s like what you’d get if a bunch of loopy potheads went through a bunch of attics”
“What is Jurassic Technology? That was the one thing I wanted to figure out…I still have no idea.…Advertise what you are selling, and define Jurassic Technology!!!!”
—Yelp, Jan 10, 2015
“Since the Lower Jurassic was more than 175 million years ago, well before man was around, this immediately smelled of hucksterism…”
—TripAdvisor, Jan. 8, 2012
“Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, there’s no technology from the Jurassic period in this whole place, so that’s a lie, too.”
—Yelp, Jan. 3, 2010
“I kept looking at my girlfriend and saying, ‘what is happening right now…where are we?'”
—Yelp, Jan. 10, 2015
“SPOILER ALERT: READ NO FURTHER IF YOU STILL WANT TO VISIT THIS PLACE. Actually… 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… Sonnabend and Deprong Mori exhibits are complete fictions… On the whole I regard the time and money I spent there as wasted.”
—Yelp, Oct. 14, 2014
“If you are going in thinking it’s a museum…it’s really not. It is almost criminal to call it that.”
—Yelp, Aug. 22, 2014
“…please, if someone can message me and tell me what is so great about this place it would give me a lot of closure.”
—Yelp, July 15, 2014
“Look, just because something is unique and weird doesn’t make it awesome. Hitler was unique and weird…”
—Yelp, Aug. 21, 2011
“Overall, no one in our group (who admittedly are pretty scientifically minded) enjoyed the place…”
—TripAdvisor, Jan. 8, 2012
“In general, stay away for there is nothing interesting here…”
—TripAdvisor, July 23, 2012
“Not good”
—Google, 2014
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