About the Museum |
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 Obscura Society visit, 2013/photo: Annetta Black |
The Zymoglyphic Museum is the world's only repository for the study and display of art, artifacts, and natural history of the Zymoglyphic region. The museum is located in San Mateo, California.
The museum is not generally open to the public except during special events. To be informed about the museum's activities and upcoming events send an email to the museum and request to be put on the mailing list (comes with a lifetime no-spam warranty).
Views of the Museum
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 Judith Hoffman
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- Visitor Responses
- Responses by visitors, both virtual and physical, to 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, blog entries, and art inspired by the museum's collections
- Essay
"The poetry of form, lyricism of association, and economy of function that define every concatenation, that pervade every diorama, rivet us to these apparitions, cementing our fascination and our affection."
"The Art World Beneath our Feet: The Zymoglyphic Museum and its Mission" by Peter Frank- Literary guestbook
- An imaginary guest book, hosting writers from Shakespeare to Pynchon
More about the Museum
- 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
- Frequently asked questions
- What does 'zymoglyphic' mean? and other mysteries explained
- 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
- 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."
- Links to books and DVDs in the museum shop are provided in association with Amazon