DEPARTMENT OF OBSCURE STUDIES
Purveyors of deeply unimportant knowledge · est. MMXXVI
IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS
“the unknown, explained by the even more unknown”
The Department maintains an expanding archive of field guides, specimens, and official notices concerning matters no reasonable institution would fund. Findings are distributed on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and other approved substrates.
THE ARCHIVE
14 findings on file. Catalog expands nightly. Filter by division:
THE MONTHLY DISPATCH
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One dispatch per month. New acquisitions, divisional bulletins, no filler. Indicate your areas of study:
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Founded MMXXVI · Budget: undisclosed · Oversight: none
The Department of Obscure Studies is the world's foremost institution — by default, as no other institution applied — for the collection, classification, and garment-based distribution of knowledge that serves no practical purpose whatsoever. Our researchers operate in the manner of a museum gift shop run by a sardonic engineer: vintage plates, retro instrumentation, and dry wit, maintained to exacting standards nobody requested.
DEPARTMENTAL DOCTRINE
- Article I. We are rigorous about things that don't matter.
- Article II. All findings are peer-reviewed by nobody.
- Article III. No matter shall be deemed too obscure; obscurity is the qualification.
- Article IV. Findings are distributed exclusively on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and other approved substrates.
- Article V. The unknown shall, wherever possible, be explained by the even more unknown. (Ignotum per ignotius.)