The Uncanny County Museum

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, back in the Museum's music archives where they discuss how people found out about music historically and how we learn about contemporary music today. From the Radio, Tiktok, and streaming services, how do these applications influence the way we find new music and how might it change in the future?

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the UCM’s Dungeons, Drive-ins, and Dives D&D festival and they take this opportunity, in full cosplay, to explore the intricacies, difficulties, and nuances of Fantasy-based media.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in the museums' hall of maps depicting the different regions of Italy and Joe takes this opportunity to explore the history of dialects and languages from the Island of Sardinia. Meanwhile, Xan discusses the nuances of different languages and the complexity of the English language.

On today's tour, our tour guides Xan and Joe are joined by special guest expert Jon Alba (@jon_alba) who gives us a closer look into the world of wrestling and the entertainment side of professional sports.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the museum's hall of Rococo paintings, where they will be talking about the history of museum display and collecting. Upon discussing the history of the French Revolution and its consequences on the art world, Xan describes the collecting style of Edmond de Goncourt, A French private collector and curator. Meanwhile, Joe discusses his run-ins with the Museum of Anthropology in Florence, Italy, and the issues with removing context from historical objects.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on the outskirts of an eerie forest inside the museum where they take this opportunity to talk about natural borders. Joe talks about the history of the ancient Hercynian Forest and how it repelled Roman legions advancing into Germanic tribal lands as well as the wildlife it contained. Meanwhile, Xan discusses the impact natural borders, like the Mediterranean sea, have on cultures and natural environments.

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, are joined by special guest expert Christian Flores (@crikeyitschristian) who takes this opportunity to discuss a brief history of conservation in zoology and contemporary examples of this practice today.

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside a rather large camera obscura where they talk about the documentary, David Hockneys Secret Knowledge, regarding the use of rudimentary projectors by 15th century artists. As curious and profound this discovery is, Xan and Joe theorize whether or not it discredits the artist's talents in mastering perspective, or enhances it…

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they navigate the aesthetics, values, and contradictions inherent within Conservitave art. Ranging from oil paintings to flag designs, they break down some reasons as to why this type of art/design exists and where it potentially originated from.

In our final exhibition covering the mythological creatures held in the Uncanny Cabinet, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, focus on the history of Dragons. In covering their historical origins to their role in contemporary fantasy/visual pop culture, they attempt to understand how the concept of dragons came to be; discussing what they might mean within different religious and cultural contexts.