What is it? A self-museum, a cabinet of curiosities, no, make that fishtanks of curiosities, with lots of little eyes secretly staring at you, and organic matter arranged into beings with souls. The world's finest collection of artistic detritus Today I discovered I'm a zymoglyphile...I'm chuffed pink to have found the proper name for my condition

Judith Hoffman

Views of the Museum

Responses to the museum by visitors both physical and virtual

Museum as Muse

Artists and writers inspired by the museum and its collections

• Photographs of the museum taken by Judith Hoffman, artist-in-residence
• A gallery of photographs taken by museum visitors
• Poems, sketches, and art inspired by the museum's collections

Frequently asked questions

"What does 'zymoglyphic' mean?" and other mysteries explained

How the museum came to be

The evolution of the museum from a 10 year-old boy's collection of rocks, bird nests, fossils, arrowheads, and marine animals

Events

Events that the museum has participated in, on site and off

Affiliated institutions

Sympathetic museums, libraries, esoteric societies, etc.

Curator's musings

Artist's statement

"...nascent dialectic between naive eccentricity and self-referential parody in the creation of an institutional persona..."

Curator's resume

"Objective: Integrate diverse elements from a wide variety of media into a conceptually unified syncretic framework..."

The Zymoglyphic Way

Philosophical foundations; or, the Grand View

Literary guestbook

An imaginary guestbook, hosting writers from Shakespeare to Pynchon

Tour the museum with Joyce and Re-joyce!

"Well, come to The Zyglomorphic Amusing Rheum! Lots of fun with Finnegans Wake!"

• This site and all photographs copyright 2000-2014 by Jim Stewart, except where otherwise credited
• Some portions may or may not be works of fiction and should not be used for factual reference without independent research
• Any exposure or depiction of human genitalia, pudenda, or secondary sexual characteristics is for educational, artistic, or entertainment purposes only, with no prurient intent, expressed or implied. While such depictions do exist on this web site, viewers are further cautioned that they are rare and may be difficult to find.
• No animals were harmed or killed in the making of the exhibits except for some ants and some pesky little beetles that were caught trying to dismantle portions of the exhibits they deemed edible.
• The term "Zymoglyphic" is a trademark of The Zymoglyphic Museum, its subsidiaries, heirs, and assigns, and may only be used when referring to the Museum or to the Region it claims to represent. "zymoglyphic" (all lower case) may be used as an adjective to describe any person, place, thing, or idea related to the themes of the Museum, although Museum management claims final moral if not legal authority to determine what is and is not truly "zymoglyphic."
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