The Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata is prone to the very processes it seeks to curtail: those of dissolution, dismemberment, ephemerality; thus, the Museum has been boxed up, its triumph of thematic exposition utterly destroyed as the curators moved from the Pillsbury House to a new location in Hyde Park. As a paltry momento of the collection's last avatar, a handfull of photographs manages to allay, at least partially and momentarily, intense melancholia in the face of such loss.

Curators Jen Hirt and Scott Webel at the entrance to the Pillsbury House Museum.

Your curators, then, are proud to present a brief photographic retrospective of the Museum's incarnation at the Pillsbury House, corner of West 22nd Street and San Gabriel, Austin, Texas. Probably no other institution of leisure and pleasure has existed in, near, or upon said corner since the passing of the glacial era.

Visitors to the Museum will be pleased with the following foray into nostalgia; those awaiting a tour at our new location will thrill with anticipation, having glimpsed what they will one day see. Thus, the retrospective serves as a veritable expository strip-tease of the collection's multiform enchantments.

We will be re-opening at the Hyde Park location Winter 2002. Meanwhile, we can be reached at your local library or through email at museum_of_ephemerata@hotmail.com.

Without futher ado, enjoy our Retrospective.