Weschler up to 100.

In this section, Weschler goes through a very detailed yet quick history or Wunderkammer and other oddities exhibits throughout history through secondary research.  He also goes into slight detail of why and how these came about, referencing the European development of wonder of foreign cultures during the major discovery and colonial eras.  Weschler states, “David Wilson has thus pitched his museum at the very intersection of the premodern and the postmodern—or, rather, perhaps what he has done is to tap into the premodern wellsprings of the postmodern temper.”  This was a little confusing, but I think that Wilson is just trying to figure out where this museum fits in today’s society.  He later asks himself why there would be a sixteenth century-style Wunderkammer in the middle of Los Angeles, but he soon concludes that Los Angeles is in fact that perfect place for this Wunderkammer.  California, historically and modernly, has always been a place of wonder and interest, and it is only appropriate to find a place of wonder within this place of wonder.  Through his secondary research and primary observations of Wunderkammer, Weschler is beginning to see the real purpose of this hole-in-the-wall museum.