The Uncanny County Museum

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on board a life size reconstruction of a warship that is theorized to have been used by the mysterious Sea Peoples. While on board this vessel, they discuss the impact these unknown peoples had on civilizations along the coasts of the Mediterranean sea during the bronze age collapse. As well as the reasons for why we know so little about t...

On this rather unusual tour, we venture into uncanny counties' infinite local Target to take care of some errands. Here, we run into our tour guides Xan and Joe who do an impromptu tour regarding the documentary, Missing 411: The Hunted . A film that is about the amount of people who go missing in the United States national parks, focusing primarily on hunters. While leading both a summary and...

On today's tour, we will be heading to one of the museum’s grand halls which has an installation depicting numerous thanksgiving day dinner tables from across the years. Here, our tour guides Xan and Joe discuss the birth of Americana and its origins within the United States. Including its help in forming a new mythology for Americans to look to. Questioning its hand in creating our holidays,...

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museum's life sized recreation of the library of Alexandria. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe each give a lecture regarding the question of what happens to information and artifacts lost to war and time? Bringing up different stories ranging from, the rise and fall of the famed library, to a story regarding a German paleontologist and t...

On Today’s tour, we will be heading to the opening reception of the Uncanny County Museums exhibition on Internet culture. Curated by our returning guest curator Allison Dempsey, we take a look at the artistic choices made to explore the depths of internet culture. All the while, hanging out with our tour guides Xan and Joe as they discuss the exhibition with Allison. Bringing up both past and mor...

On today's tour, we pass by our tour guides Xan and Joe preparing and installing a new exhibition on internet culture. Amidst the construction and installation, they take a moment to reflect and discuss what they remember about the internet, primarily focusing on tumblr. Looking back at some of the most famous and bizarre moments on the popular social media site. Ranging from shipping wars to...

On this very special Halloween tour, the Uncanny County Museum is hosting its first ever Horror Film Festival! Featuring our guest curator David Neal, we take a look into some of the most famous and infamous horror films ever made. Discussing the impact horror films have on society, viewing them in a theater versus by yourself, film quality, and the deeper meanings embedded within them. All the wh...

On today's tour, we will be visiting a one day only exhibit, featuring an installation based on Roman Ondaks work titled Loop . Taking the museum's outdoor landscape and placing inside the exhibit. Within this seemingly unreal space, our tour guides Xan and Joe lead a discussion regarding artwork in public spaces, versus the museum or gallery space. Focusing on artists such as Adrián Villa...

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museum’s music archives, a crowded space filled with filing cabinets that contain any and all music storing devices, such as vinyl, cassettes, cd’s, ect. Our tour guides Xan and Joe lead a discussion on how music should be archived and exhibited in a museum. All the while, sharing their musical tastes and opinions, discovering music by...

On today's tour, we will be heading to one of the Uncanny County Museum’s underground cellars to take a look at some rare and preserved taxidermied animals. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe will be leading a lecture and discussion regarding human caused animal extinctions throughout history. Taking a closer look at animals such as the dodo, the great auk, the thylacine, and other less familiar ani...

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County museum’s bakery for a chilled out, pastry filled discussion regarding the creation of bread. We look at how bagels became the ultimate travel food, how multiple cultures figured out baking by trial and error, and how bread is essentially alive...

On today's tour, we will be visiting an exhibit on the musical, Starlight Express! Featuring guest curator Allison Dempsey, we take a closer look at coding in musical theater, science fiction, fantasy genres in pop culture, and the impact it leaves. All the while, questioning why Pixar's Cars seem to have organs...

On this spooky tour, we will be visiting the Uncanny County Museum's haunted auction! Where we have a very peculiar and haunted artifact on display for one day only. While leading the auction, our tour guides Xan and Joe share some insight on cursed objects throughout history, crystals, and their own ghost stories.

For today's tour, we will be headed to a remote jungle to take a look at some leftover dinosaur bones and an ancient Olmec sculpture. All the while, discussing Creationist and Ancient Alien theories, secret Christopher Columbus conspiracy theories, and the power of human creativity. Make sure to pack some bug spray.