When asked to define what the Museum of Jurassic Technology is all about, employees offer answers almost as cryptic as its website’s dated single page.

“It’s a name that leaves a lot for the visitors to kind of try and figure out,” said Constant Gordon, who works at the museum’s front desk.

Not much can be gleaned from the museum’s opaque exterior on Venice Boulevard, but reviews and write ups say go in with an open mind, even if its dark lighting spooks sun-soaked visitors.

Its mystique is part of its draw, but Gordon also said it allows for limitless imagination for a broad collection.

“We like people to find elements of it that they connect to and (find) interesting, as opposed to trying to place them in a particular direction,” they said.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology could be considered the modern-day version of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum.

Its architect is David Wilson, who worked in the entertainment business designing animations and miniature models for commercials.

Photos of the museum show taxidermized mice, microminiature sculptures of Napoleon Bonaparte and Goofy, and a portrait of Laika, the dog the Soviet Union sent to space.

How are all these related? Good question.

The museum doesn’t necessarily hark back to the Jurassic geological epoch or the dinosaurs that roamed then.

In the description penned by the MacArthur Foundation, which awarded Wilson a fellowship in 2001, installations “question what museums are, mean and do.”

The line between fact and fiction blurs here, but regardless of the artifacts’ authenticity, anything displayed aims to challenge visitors’ imagination.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a nonprofit that rotates galleries and exhibitions. There’s a new wing opening this fall as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, which explores how art and science collide.

With tight winding corridors through its two stories, the museum runs on a reservation system to prevent overcrowding. The museum has roughly 30,000 visitors a year.