The Uncanny County Museum

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museum's Dinosaur Hall where we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as Xan leads a discussion regarding the representation and illustration of Dinosaurs since their discovery. Ranging from dramatic paleoart to the Disney movie Dinosaur, Xan maps out a timeline that illustrates where the images of these creatures come from. All the while, they d...

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museum’s old saloon where our tour guides, Xan and Joe, while dressed in their cowboy cosplays, investigate the depiction of the American West presented in Cinema and its impact on the United States' cultural mythology. They survey the use of audio, visual, and literary tropes in Westerns through the decades ranging from The Great Train Robber...

On todays tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, are joined by guest curator Florizel to discuss erotic art and the censorship that often looms over it. Through discussing Florizels artistic practice and her methods of making and researching, they discuss the censorship and shadowbanning that takes place on social media today as well as historical moments were erotic art was embraced. All the while,...

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, talk under a model of a rebar angel from Chernoybl and discuss recent events in which people have returned to live on the abandoned land. They discuss the return of wildlife and the absorption of radiation by mushrooms, as well as how long it will take before the radiation reaches its halflife. All the while, they wonder if either of them could mo...

On today's tour, we journey to the depths of the sea, the tallest peaks of the realm, and the lush valleys of the land to explore the monsters from Judaic/christian mythology. We join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they lead a discussion about the origins, history, and possible real versions of the famous Leviathan, Ziz, and Behemoth from these sacred texts. They describe their own theories...

On today’s tour, we return to the infamous Cryptid hall where our tour guides, Xan and Joe, discuss the origins of Florida's beloved cryptid, the Skunk ape. Through exploring how it came to be known in popular culture they present a timeline of the first primate sightings in the U.S. While ultimately trying to wrap their heads around what came first; Bigfoot...or the Skunk Ape? All the while,...

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they take us through a curated exhibition of art from TV and movies. Ranging from shows such as the Office, ICarly, How I Met Your Mother, Broad City, and the Film, Velvet Buzzsaw, they explore the artist and curator tropes presented in these productions. All the while, discussing Xans first cup of coffee, vegan Chicken and Waffles, and S...

On today's tour, we head back to the infamous Gossip Lounge at the UCM to join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they talk about “Kitsch”. Ranging from a $12,000 painting of Goofy surfing to the work of the infamous painter, Thomas Kinkade, they discuss where kitsch is positioned in the context of contemporary art and the global art scene. All the while, they talk about Billy Joel, cruise ship...

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museums' recreation of a realistic cave complex. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion regarding early humans and their relationships with art, animals, and living spaces. They speculate the possible reasons as to why early humans would have painted animals and explore other theories that provide entirely different explanat...

Bringing our 3 week long exhibition of Art in the 20-th Century to a close, we Join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they finalize our journey by bringing us into a recreation of a subway station. They discuss the late 1970s and the beginning of commercialism within art and the implications that it brings, following it all the way to the end of the 90’s. As they wrap up this exhibition we take a clo...

Continuing on our three-week long exhibition of art in the 20th century, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they take us through the different artistic movements that occur post World War 2. Ranging from conceptual artists working in South America, to the Japanese Avant-Garde, they focus on artists who have been left out of the Western European art canon in order to give more perspective and a...

Welcome to the Uncanny Museums first ever exhibit of art in the 20th century! This exhibition will take place over the course of three weeks and each of our tours will be led by your trusty curators and tour guides, Xan and Joe. They will be taking us through art in the 20th century, although by means of looking at what was happening on the edges of the art scene at the time, rather than just the...

Have you heard about the legend of the Titanic? On this rather strange tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums planetarium (virtually and in person) for another one of our (in)famous watch along events! Our tour guides, Xan and Joe give their commentary live while watching the classic children's film, The Legend of the Titanic. *This is a different episode from our normally scheduled ones...

On this special tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums Aviary where we will be joining our tour Guides, Xan and Joe as well as our special guest Michelle Cimino, for an in depth discussion regarding animal intelligence. In narrowing down this rather large scale topic, they examine the possibilities of collective intelligence within animal species as well as consider how we can measure the int...

On today's tour, we are returning to our roots as a roadside museum here at the UCM and we will be heading to our newly installed cryptid exhibit. Here, we listen in as our tour guides Xan and Joe tells us the story of one of the lesser known infamous Florida cryptids, old three toes. During this tale, they discuss the origins and revealed mystery surrounding this cryptid and look at potential...

On today's tour, we head to one of the Uncanny County Museums lecture halls where Joe is presenting a lecture regarding questioning the narratives presented in documentary films. From the Edison company to actuality films, Joe weaves us through a quick overview of the history of documentary filmmaking and how it has come to influence the contemporary versions we see now. During this presentati...

On today's tour, we take a closer look into the life, career, and importance of the artist/musician, Yoko Ono. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion about the history and significance of Yoko Ono's contribution to art history and attempt to perform the actions that are mentioned in her Instruction paintings. All the while, discussing frustrating fans, Wings (the band) themed dippi...

On today's tour, we head to a rather unusual exhibit within a small room at the UCM, which contains a recreation of a stereotypical fans shrine to the Beatles. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe join us here for a discussion regarding dad rock, purple ketchup, JFK,  and of course the Beatles. Like the Smithsonian (but more fun) this exhibit includes actual copies of all of the Beatles albums, bobble...

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe, in one of the (famous) Uncanny County Museum’s landscape wings. After inspecting the dioramas on display, they lead a discussion regarding representing wilderness in visual art. Ranging from Flemish landscape painting to more contemporary takes on American landscape painting. As well as taking a look at other ways of how landscapes are repr...

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums Wax hall, filled with all types of famous and life-like uncanny figures. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion focusing on the origins of the uncanny valley and why we have it. They Consider a multitude of possibilities ranging from our ancestors encountering other types of hominid species in the past, or perhaps, that it's be...

On this tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe as well as our special guest, Kolbe White from the podcast Forced Football Facts in the museum's infamous Gossip Lounge. They lead a series of discussions dealing with museum scandals and the mishaps associated with acquiring artifacts. These topics range from Hobby Lobby's infamous museum scandal, Sue the t-rex, Archeoraptor, and other pa...

Continuing from our previous tour trapped in the fallout shelter, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they continue a discussion regarding the apocalypse. Specifically, bringing up a multitude of examples ranging from historic moments such as the fall of the Roman empire, to literary ones like H. G Wells’ book, War of the Worlds. Investigating further this western approach to the end of the wor...

Welcome back to the Uncanny County Museum in this new year! On today's tour, we run into our tour guides, Xan and Joe as they are in the middle of transporting holiday/party decorations to the museum's basement(s). Joining in as volunteers for this excursion, we head to the sub-sub basement in order to find room to drop off these items. While in the middle of catching up and recapping the...

Happy Holidays from your favorite audio fabricated museum! On this rather strange tour, we tune into the Uncanny County Museums holiday special, via virtual streaming. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a live director's commentary track alongside one of the lesser known, bizarre Christmas movies; Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas.  *This is a different episode from our normally scheduled one...

On today's tour we head to the Uncanny County Museum’s petting zoo where a recent memorial has been placed. We join our tour guides, Xan and Joe at this specific site in order to pay homage in remembering the Emu War. In particular, recollecting how humanity has fought and lost two notable campaigns against different species of birds. They discuss both the absurdity and interesting points of t...