The Uncanny County Museum

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the UCM’s armory where they explore the different types of weapons and armor used throughout history, their purpose and uses, and why they were made to be so artistically appealing. 

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they wait in line to enter the museum. Joe recounts his recent experience at the recent Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwerner, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, and both him and Xan bring up critical points regarding spectacle vs art, and our relation to time.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe at the Uncanny Valley Orchard where Xan recounts the origins of apples in America, the science behind producing them, and the history that they are attached to that has had major impacts on our world today.

Our source and recommended reading is American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historical Beverage by Dan Pucci & Craig Cavallo

On today's tour, we join Xan and Joe as they transverse the North American continent to investigate the untold origins of paleontology and its roots in Native American traditions of fossil collection.

Our sources and recommended reading include:

“Otherlands” by Thomas Halliday and “Fossil Legends of the First Americans” by Adrienne Mayor

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside an exhibit that focuses on deconstructing some of the myths behind the Scandinavian people's transition from Norse paganism to Christianity in the early middle ages through archeological and art historical evidence.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they focus on the mystery surrounding how birds achieved flight. Xan gives us a broad evolutionary overview of this history and later explains the science and creative strategies behind the more recent theories surrounding flight evolution.

On today’s tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, next to a diorama of cordyceps infecting ants for a conversation surrounding the science of HBO and Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us, while also discussing the show/games role in current popular culture.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as well as special guest expert Christian Flores, aka @crikeyitschristian, in the “Croc of Ages” exhibit hall for a part 2 exploration of crocodilians through time; focusing on the prehistoric ancestors of modern-day crocodilians.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on an exhibit focused on the Saltwater Crocodiles' return to their natural habitats, and consequently the conflicts that have been reignited between them and Humans. Meanwhile, Xan provides a brief history of Crocodilians and how old they really are.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they navigate how fanart fits in with the contemporary art world and within the context of the history of art.