Museum of Jurassic Technology was born on the idea of David Wilson, a native of Los Angeles, who studied science at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, and worked as director of the California Institute of Arts in Valencia. In 1988, he rented an almost abandoned building and began exhibiting with his wife Diane Wilson. The initial interest of visitors led to the museum expanding, albeit slowly, to the present building, which he managed to buy in 1999. Today it attracts over 20,000 visitors per year from all over the world. Among the curiosities we can remember them from the medical sector, the eggs of ants, which in the Middle Ages were used to treat ‘love sickness’.
X-rays of flowers are also very suggestive; X-rays of flowers show their ‘deep anatomy’ and can be viewed in 3D using stereographic glasses.
The museum is also mentioned in the novel "Museum of Innocence" by Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, and New York Times critic Edward Rothstein called it "a museum of museums".
