The apparatus
Glass tubes, round vessels, and a very serious display label: our imagined gas apparatus borrows the visual language of a laboratory.
The mechanism of a joke
Place a cushion, press a button, or turn a dial. The objects in this exhibit invite you to consider how anticipation becomes part of the punchline.
Looking at the ordinary
A simple novelty can look surprisingly important when it has a plinth to itself. That shift in context is part of the fun.