Sydney Reitzel
Mona Nejad
Carlos Hernandez
Fifth-year, psychobiology
“The psychiatry museum on Sunset. It’s a very biased perspective of psychiatry through the ages. So they show all the torturous methods of psychiatric care, since it’s the beginning of the practice to the present. I’ve heard it’s very biased because of all the bad things about psychiatry like the electric chair, and all the Nazi forms of experimentation and lobotomies.”
Mona Nejad
Fourth-year psychobiology
“The house of Salvador Dali. His style is very odd. A lot of it revolves around him creating his wife’s body or face through different mediums. (In one of the rooms) if you went up this staircase and looked at a certain angle at the furniture, you could see her face created with that furniture.”
Melody Liao
Graduate student
“In my undergrad I went to Berkeley, and one of the museums had a display on hair. It was all of the hair that was collected (from) someone’s bathtub over a year. They made a sculpture out of it. I’ve never seen anything like that (but) I thought it was disgusting and amazing.”
Sydney Reitzel
Second-year, physics
“The Hammer Museum. Some of the stuff was cool … but the interactive art, where they actually have stuff set up, was kind of random. You had to read the descriptions to actually figure out what it was supposed to mean. To most people it would just look like a piece of wood, but you had to figure out what it meant based on the artist’s life experiences and whatever drugs they were on.”
Kevin Lin
Third-year, mechanical engineering
“I’ve been to a Tim Burton exhibit. It was a bunch of Tim Burton’s animations and stuff from his movies. His animation is all distorted, so there was a bunch of that (and) scary stuff. … I never really liked museums, but going to that exhibit was pretty cool. Seeing things from my childhood, because I used to watch Tim Burton’s films, was cool to see.”