Nick Bantock's "The Museum At Purgatory"

Ranked #5,040 in Books, Poetry & Writing, #184,941 overall

From the Creator of Griffin and Sabine

The Museum at Purgatory is a story and a work of art.

It is a catalogue of collections currated by the mysterious Non. These collections tell the stories of the lives of their previous owners and how in Purgatory they used their collections as a way of working through who they had been and why they needed to surround themselves with their hoards of extraordinary objects.

The Museum at Purgatory is basically like visiting a therapist in the afterlife!

Currator Non will guide you through such fascinating collections as:

Edward Fitzgerald's magic carpets which tell the story of Basa, a woman he loved but never chased.

Lizbeth Gazio's shrines and Navigational boxes.

Garrik Nathius's weird and wonderful board games, all invented so that he could compete with his dead twin.

Matrice Levant's spinning tops and his hoax history of spinning tops book.

The Museum At Purgatory

By Nick Bantock.

The Museum at Purgatory (Byzantium Book)

Amazon Price: $3.15 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

I adore Nick Bantock's books- I started with the book "Griffin and Sabine" and then read the rest of the books in that first trilogy and then I started collecting his other books. Usually I'd get one as a treat and I'd read a section of it to reward myself after reaching one of my daily targets for National Novel Writing Month.

I've had The Museum at Purgatory for a couple of years and for some reason I never really got into reading it like I had the others.

I decided I'd take it on holiday with me this year and I devoured it within a couple of hours.

If you've never seen one of Nick Bantock's books before then I shall explain. Nick is an artist and accompanying his stories are full colour glossy images of his art, be they collage, paintings, illustrations or assemblage.

As an artist and a writer this idea of using my art to tell a story really appeals to me.

Who is Currator Non?

It's a mystery. Non can't remember his former life. And what did he do to Marie Louise Gornier?

An Unusual Melanesian Male Figure

The Delancet Room

The Delancet room is concerned with the collection of all lost post. Those of you familiar with Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine books will know how beautiful his fake letter work is.

Envelope with Wells Fargo Pony Express Stamp Attached

Urgent 2nd Class

By Nick Bantock.

Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera

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Find out more about Nick Bantock's beautiful faked envelopes and letters etc.

The Nathius Room

Garrik Nathius's room is full of his intriguing games. This appealed to me because I spent a lot of my childhood making silly board games.

Parchessi

The Levant Room

Maurice Levant's room is filled with his forged spinning tops from the primitive Musak Whipping Top forged from wood and clay to the Tzino Pike made from silver plate and ivory.

La Pirouette Spinning Top

The Cavarn Room

The Cavarn Room is filled with miniature mummies, first discovered by Professor Archelo Bora Cavarn.

Mummy Adorned with Bone Jewellery, circa 200 BC

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