On January 17th, 2015, a new kind of Natural History Museum opened in Dallas Contemporary’s placid galleries. By displaying collections that had been painstakingly assembled over a number of years, the institution aimed to reference the entire knowledge gathered within a scarcely anticipated world. Which world exactly? Scholars, scientists, experts and journalists, who had for some time attempted to gravitate towards this no less than obscure museum, no longer tried to find an answer to this question….