Musée Patamécanique 2.77

"The gateway to the invisible must be visible.”
- Rene Daumal

Established in 2006 (vulg.), Musée Patamécanique is part of the culture of the Wunderkammer - or the Cabinets of Curiosities.

A visit of the museum takes the form of a private tour in which guests accompany a guide on a whimsical journey through a series of pseudoscientific, pre-cinematic and unclassified “experiments”. The results of these experiments are presented as EVIDENCE of “… a universe that exists supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, (they) will describe a universe which can be – and perhaps should be - envisaged in the place of the traditional one.” *

Current exhibits include: a time machine, an undigestulator (a machine for reconstituting digested foods), the Earolin (a 24 inch tall holographic ear that plays the violin), Schrödinger's cat, an olfactory clock, a chandelier of singing animatronic nightingales, a troop of singing animatronic chipmunks, a peanuts enlarging machine and a machine for capturing the dreams of bumble bees.

While a visit to Musée Patamécanique is best described as an immersive sensory experience it is also a philosophical discourse that attempts to lead the visitor to a place between fact and fiction, past and future; between real and imaginary worlds...

This is of course, the place we all live.

*Alfred Jarry, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, ‘Pataphysician