Editing 'Pataphysics (section)

==== Musée Patamécanique ====
[[Musée Patamécanique]] is a private museum located in [[Bristol, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Musée Patamécanique |type=main page |url=http://www.museepata.org/welcome.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005190744/http://www.museepata.org/welcome.html |archive-date=5 October 2014}}</ref> Founded in 2006, it is open by appointment only to friends, colleagues, and occasionally to outside observers. The museum is presented as a hybrid between an automaton theatre and a cabinet of curiosities and contains works representing the field of Patamechanics, an artistic practice and area of study chiefly inspired by 'pataphysics.

Examples of exhibits include a troupe of singing animatronic chipmunks, a time machine the museum says is the world's largest automated [[phenakistoscope]], an olfactory clock, a chandelier of singing animatronic nightingales, an Undigestulator (a device that purportedly reconstitutes digested foods), a peanuts enlarger, a syzygistic oracle, the earolin (a 24-inch tall holographic ear that plays the violin), and a machine for capturing the dreams of bumble bees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibition |website=Musée Patamécanique |url=http://www.museepata.org/EXHIBITION.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005184524/http://www.museepata.org/EXHIBITION.html |archive-date=5 October 2014}}</ref>