Some of London’s flashier exhibits are found strolling in fine British frockery such as those made at the hands of locals Erdem, Matthew Williamson or Sarah Burton, the designer of Kate Middleton’s wedding dress and bridal party. Yet while London has long been at the forefront of fashion (Carnaby Street, anyone?), the museums have long been swinging, albeit in a more stately fashion. Any mall store guidebook will map a stakeout of the British Museum, the Tate Modern or the Tower of London. Certainly …More

Late 1980's residents of the Culver City-adjacent neighborhood of Palms were thoroughly puzzled when they first noticed this somewhat nondescript storefront "dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the lower Jurassic." Was there any technology to speak of back when reptiles ruled the earth? Was there room for anything you could a call a museum in that tiny-looking building? Were the people who founded it utterly insane? The answers turned out to be: of course not, yes, and, well, …More