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Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
Neighborhood: East Austin
1808 Singleton Ave
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 320-0566
1808 Singleton Ave
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 320-0566
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4 reviews for Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
I went on Valentine's Day to the Wondrous Instruments exhibit.
So, it's a museum collection of bizarro stuff in a couple's house. It is one of the WEIRDEST collections I have ever seen. They had musical instruments (player piano, cigar box guitars) and scientific instruments (x ray machines, ghost detectors). There was live music and wine and beer. Wild times. I saw Vince from the Cathedral of Junk there too!
If you want to walk on the weirder side, just check out the website and go there.
Jen and Scott are two of the most amazingly creative, funny and charming people I have ever met. They converted half of their home (with hay bale fence and bathtub pond) into the most fantastical, surreal, fun, non-traditional museum you have ever seen. Curiosities like Marilyn Monroe's last cigarette are preserved under glasses in the Victorian fashion. Ghostbuster dioramas are installed in their walls. The Kombucha Research Station is alive and thriving.
But don't spend too much time wondering what is 'real' and what is not. Follow these two rabbits down, down, down into the rabbit hole - wonderous things live and breathe here. If you've never been, go to one of their openings. The art patrons who frequent this unusual museum dress up in their finery and are as much fun to admire as the objects in the museum themselves.
"Gosh! What crafty, entrepreneurial, capitalistic hippies." That's the thought that kept running through my mind the entire time I was at this museum. I was also a little jealous, I wish I could get people to pay me to look at all the weird stuff I have collected. We paid to look at their eye boogies for god's sake! Genius! This museum is a house full of really weird stuff, entrance fee is a donation of anything from a dime to four dollars so you'll definitely get your money's worth of entertainment. My friend and I loved the roughly 45 min we spent gawking at weird things, listening to descriptions of their items & stifling our laughter like little kids in grade school and I think *that* is what makes it worth visiting. This is the epitome of the Austin vibe and definitely a place you should take out-of-towners to give them a good dose of Austin culture shock (Take them here first and they'll take meeting Leslie a little easier). Don't miss the circus cat's trick at the end. As a crazy cat lady myself, I thought it was awesome that they could get their cat to do a trick and work for it's food, mine just lay around on my bed pillows waiting to get their free premium kibble like the lazy little communists they are.
The Museum of Natural and Artificial Emphemerata ("MNAE") holds AWE-inspiring exhibits of weirdness. From Liberace's ghostly piano keys to the Kombacha Research Station, this small museum has something to impress even the most jaded emphemerata museum goer. Please email or check the website before visiting as the MNAE has limited hours (mainly weekends). 5 Stars. Major fu atmosphere. Check it out!
