If you live anywhere near Los Angeles, it will definitely be worth a trip to the museum.
The exhibit will include an original copy of de Gebelin’s Monde Primitif, from 1787; an 1850 copy of the Grand Etteilla; an original 1909 copy of the Waite-Smith Tarot; facsimiles of the earliest Italian and French decks, such as Place’s recreation of the earliest Italian woodcut deck from the 15th century and hand-colored recreations of the earliest French decks by Jean-Claude Flornoy; related Renaissance images; Place’s art from The Alchemical Tarot and The Annotated Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery; and the work of other contemporary Tarot artists, such as Patrick Valenza, creator of Deviant Moon Tarot, Evan Yi Feng, creator of Twilight Tarot, and Ciro Marchetti, creator of Legacy of the Divine Tarot.
You can find more information on the museum’s website at http://www.cafam.org/FoolsJourney.html.
Robert M. Place has written a mostly excellent book on Tarot history and is one of the most creative designers of Tarot decks. However I find he does exhibit a cultural bias in favor of Anglo-American divinatory Tarot as the only modern manifestation of Tarot in existence. While the exhibit correctly states that Tarot started as a card game in northen Italy, what I don’t think is stated is that Tarot is still played today as a card game in many countries especially in France. If the goal of this museum is to promote cultural diversity, I’m afraid they fall short of it by favoring Anglo-American notions of Tarot as a divinatory art and neglecting modern Tarot game playing.