Join us for the Animal's GRAND CLOSING PARTY, Friday, June 1, 7-10pm!
Sonic Safari by Tape Jockey RADICON! Curator-led tours of the anti-menagerie!

Animals Photo gallery | Guidebook

Welcome to the Animals exhibition at the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata! An enchanting wilderzoneof animal collection—a veritable wetland of naturcultures and undoubtedly the most singular ecocollage of its kind! See wildlife, feralife, and tamelife intertwine in a symbiotic thicket of biomass! A vast biopanorama in which you, too, are on display! Here the animals are more curious about you than you are them, and rather than being tamed, here they make humans wild!

The Animals show features over 25 loans from Austin collectors, a narwhal tooth replica, a weeping taxidermy crocodile, and millions of invisible animalculae!

Animals Grand Opening Weekend
Opens Friday, February 9, 7-10pm (preview showing) and Saturday, February 10, 12-5pm (with curator-led tours!)

SXSW HOURS:
Open house (free event!), with Sonic Safari by DJ RADIKON, Thursday, March 15, 7-10pm
Open for tours, Friday-Saturday, March 16-17, 2-6pm
All SXSW weekend, enjoy NON-GMO vegetarian fare, donated by Whole Foods Market!
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Welcome to the Animals exhibition at the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata! An enchanting wilderzone of animal collection—a veritable wetland of naturcultures and undoubtedly the most singular ecocollage of its kind! See wildlife, feralife, and tamelife intertwine in a symbiotic thicket of biomass! A vast biopanorama in which you, too, are on display! Here the animals are more curious about you than you are them, and rather than being tamed, here they make humans wild!

The exhibition opens Friday, February 9 with an evening preview showing from 7-10pm, featuring a jungle of animal light created by the celuloid-celled Ms. Lori 16mm Varga! The Animals show features over 25 loans from Austin collectors, a narwhal tooth replica, a weeping taxidermy crocodile, and millions of invisible animalculae! For a full tour of our anti-menagerie, come by Saturday, February 10, 12-5pm!

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East Austin Studio Tour
November 18-19, 10am-5pm

Join Your Curators for tours of the impermanent collection and a photographic retrospective of Machines! Select displays from our last exhibition are up for sale, including an antique Pachinko machine and neon art by Jim Austin at Classic Glass Neon. Start your own Museum of Ephemerata!

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Halloween Happening
Spunky Monkey Ranch
(2200 block of South 1st behind End of an Ear Records)
Crypt doors open 8pm
Medical benefit for Lori 16mm Varga - 5$ suggested donation
BYOB (bring your own blood)
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Don't miss this spooky night of film, freaks, and treats! Witness firsthand Chad Hopper's Science Bear Arcade and Thirteen Terrifying Displays by the Museum of Ephemerata - IF YOU DARE!

Attic Ted (8:30pm) and Night Viking (9:15pm) shock this monstrous evening to life! Museum of Ephemerata (10pm) will screen a 2001 documentary on the Museum's first Austin exhibition, plus Marc Isreal's film short, "The Magical Motion-Pixeled Museum of Moving Ephemerata." Then Drakula's Musik Kabinet and celluloid she-devil Lori 16mm Varga (11pm) launch their haunted spaceship of Frankenmash-ups and digital/analog film experiments! Lori 16mm's screening of her "Oh No! Concerto" and Bela Lugosi's "White Zombie" wrap up the night tighter than a mummy!

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A visit to the Church of Brunch
September 10, 11am
100 E. Lisa Dr., Austin, TX

Your Curators will present some Machines related pieces to the Church of Brunch congregation (see photos), then join in on some singing!

Church of Brunch is "everything you want from a church, without the religion. Join us for non-god-centered Sunday ceremony. All philosophies welcome, leave your dogma at the door. Services followed by potluck vegan brunch. Believers, atheists welcome. Enjoy singing, fellowship, and brunch!"

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Closing of Machines
August 5th, 2006, 7-10pm

Your LAST CHANCE to tour the Machines Arcade, a veritable JUNKYARD of outmoded devices, cutting-edge pollutions, parades of artificial lights, and technological utopias!

New souvenirs include Machines t-shirts designed by Elana Farley and printed by Rural Rooster and impermanent collection guidebooks printed with a generous donation by Priority Copy. Thanks to Whole Foods Market for donating beverages for the closing!

This project is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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Machines
Grand Opening, Saturday, March 11, 7-10pm
SXSW open hours: Thursday and Friday, March 16-17, 2-7pm
Open hours (beginning Saturday, March 25): Noon - 3pm
2-4$ suggested donation

The Museum of Ephemerata presents its latest exhibition, Machines, at our new space in East Austin! Machines surveys technology from the industrial revolution to today, with an emphasis on wondrous instruments, technological utopias, & forgotten industries. A cylindrical Edison phonograph and stereoscopic photography appear beside a dream machine and nanopuppy in our Machines Arcade. As with past shows, the Museum confounds the very idea of its topic: What are machines, precisely? On what do they depend? What do they produce? What happens when they malfunction? Nanotechnology's invisible objects and molecular biology's talk of ribosomes as machines fall in line with the Museum's vision. Witness "the dime museum of the biotech era," where transgenetic jackalopes are poised on the edge of myth!

New souvenirs include Machines t-shirts designed by Elana Farley and printed by Rural Rooster and impermanent collection guidebooks printed with a generous donation by Priority Copy.

This project is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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MachinesMimesis™
January 28th, 2006, 6-9pm
At the Cathedral of Junk
4422 Lareina Drive, S. Austin
Photo gallery, hosted by Rural Rooster

The Museum of Ephemerata presents an evening of musical, theatrical, multi-mediated entertainment at the Cathedral of Junk - a fundraiser for the Machines exhibition, opening March 2006!

MachinesMimesis™ promises experimental hilarity as we imitate technology using our bodies and musical instruments. Stationed throughout the Cathedral, members of the Pistol Love Family Band, the Bright Lights Society, and Neal Kassanoff and the Infidels become cogs in a finely tuned walk-through music machine – the first display in the Museum's upcoming Machines exhibition. Ms. Lori 16mm Varga's slide, 16mm film, and organic/avant-sampled noise projections mingle with robot pantomime and string band tunes from America's industrialization. Don't miss an evening of sci-fi junk jazz, industrio-hillbilly chamber music, a medley of train songs, and disembodied voices from two centuries of high technology! Can a violin sound like an airplane landing? Can a single upright bass reproduce the sound of automated factories? What happens when the Cathedral of Junk becomes the world's largest percussion instrument? Find out at MachinesMimesis™!

This project is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.