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Museum of Lost Wonder

I was strolling through Borders over lunch today and I came across a very interesting book called “The Museum of Lost Wonder”.  This thing has to bee seen to believed.  I’ve told Tammy, this is what I want for Christmas.

http://www.lostwonder.org/

“Part do-it-yourself picture book, part fantastical history of science exhibition, The Museum of Lost Wonder demonstrates the strangeness of the everyday. Jeff Hoke deploys the seven stages of alchemy to order a material universe that embraces quantum physics to phrenology, the memory theater of the ancients to Descartes’ cross-eyed girl. Along the way, our synaptic pathways get rearranged; we’re encouraged to make surprising connections, to move from mere pattern recognition to the fabrication of imaginative scenes.”

  -Barbara Maria Stafford, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago, author of Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen.