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

keep austin weird book cover

Your Curators are honored to be featured in the "weird places" chapter of Red Wassenich's lavishly illustrated book Keep Austin Weird. The Museum is sandwiched between the Cathedral of Junk, Smut Putt Heaven, and the Moonlight Towers.

"When the Blanton Museum of Art opened in April 2006, the common response was, 'At last, finally, Austin has a real museum.' This is displayed ignorance of the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata ('where you have been all along'), a wonderful collection of exccentric objects gathered by eccentrics for eccentrics... The museum is an exploration of the stuff of life that is usually ignored but that is actually extremely influential."

Red Wassenich, "Weird places," Keep Austin Weird: A guide to the odd side of town, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007