Museum of Ephemerata

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Voted "Best Tribute to the Fleeting" by the Austin Chronicle, "Best of Austin 2006," October 12, 2006

John Kelso, "A dime buys a tour of this odd house," Austin American-Statesman, June 21, 2002
News 8 footage, 2003 (.mpg file)
Rachel Pearson, "Museum gets a grip on reality," Daily Texan, November 15, 2004
Claire Moore, East Austin Studio Tour short list, Cantanker, Fall 2006
John Buchanan, "Discover second-tier destinations for first-class meetings," Corporate & Incentive Travel, March 2007
Red Wassenich, "Weird places," Keep Austin Weird: A guide to the odd side of town, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007
Austin Monthly, "107 things to do in the summer," May 2007, p. 148
R.A. Dyer, "Museum a tribute to dime museums," Ft. Woth Star-Telegram, January 2008
Lori Rackl, "Welcome to Weirdsville," Chicago Sun-Times, March 2008
Wayne Alan Brenner, "Living With 'Monstrosities'," Austin Chronicle, June 27, 2008

Austin Chronicle "Best of Austin 2006"
Best Tribute to the Fleeting: Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

Photo by Mary Sledd
Photographs © Mary Sledd, 2006

"Whither the orphaned technology of yesteryear, the detritus of culture obscured by shrouds of time, the quirky whatsits created by divinely inspired kooks or by the eccentric machinations of nature itself? Scott Webel and Jen Hirt, who run Austin's delightful Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemera, know whither. In fact, they devote much of their time and their own home collecting and displaying such arcane miscellanea for the amusement and edification of us, the wonder-hungry public; and we, in turn, are devoted right back."

Thank you Chronicle! - Your Devoted Curators