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The Austin Museums Project

The Austin Museums Project

Welcome to The Austin Museums Project Page. When I began this blog, I wasn’t sure what it was going to be about. I decided to allow myself to write about whatever interested me and what I thought might interest other people. After I hit 100,000 words I would look back and see what the patterns and best posts were and then, perhaps, narrow down future posts.

A few weeks into the project of writing a blog post every day I decided to come up with 100 museum ideas. It was a lot fun to do and I ended up with over 200 ideas. I wrote some posts on those ideas and every now and then I’ll add some more posts. As I do, I link to them from this page.

While these are not-yet-existing Austin museums, you can find similar fun stuff to do on my weird Austin, unique Austin, and Austin immersive lists.

Not Your Typical Museum

I use the term “museum” loosely. In fact, for many of the ideas it would be entirely reasonable for you to ask, “so.. what’s IN the museum?” And I would say, “I don’t know.”

Some of the ideas are how to engage people in a single high-concept space. Others are spaces created to draw attention to how people engage between each other or to create new playful forms of engagement between people. There’s also some that are more content-focused, though I believe ultimately it’s about the people, not “the stuff”.

The Experimental Austin Museums Posts

Here’s the small selection of Museum Ideas I’ve posted about so far. In case you missed the note above, these are proposed museums – you can not visit any of them. Yet. If you have stumbled upon this page looking for Austin museums you can visit, I recommend Museum of the Weird, The Austin Toy Museum, and The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata.

  • The Museum of Now There’s Different Lights

  • The Museum of Destiny

  • The Museum of Be Here Now

  • The Museum of Gratitude

  • The You Can Only Say Yes Museum

  • The Comparative Decades Museums

  • The Museum of This is a Jigsaw Puzzle

  • The Museum of 10,000 Drawers, Some of Which Have Stuff In Them

  • The Museum of Unknown Things

  • The “Act As If” Museum

  • The Museum of Boring Things

  • The Museum of Gaudy

  • The Museum of Stuff I Bought At Other Museums’ Gift Shops

  • The Museum of Diet and Exercise Fads

  • The Museum of Slow Motion

  • The Museum of Stuff You Really Want to Touch But Can’t

  • The Museum of We’ve Got One of Those Too

  • The Museum of Accents

  • The Museum of Everyone Has To Hold The Art Because We Have No Place To Put It

  • The Museum of Things That Go Beep

  • The Elderly’s Museum

  • The Museum of Loose Snakes

  • The Museum of Stuff Nobody Enjoys Talking About

  • The McBoatfaced Museum

  • The Museum of Telescopic Art

  • The Museum of Intermittent Art

  • The Museum of You Work Here Now

  • The Museum of Things You Make Bigger

  • The Museum That Is Not Meant For Humans

  • The Museum of Destroy The Art

  • The Museum of Did You Learn Anything From This Museum?

  • The Museum of Tourists

  • The Museum of You’re George Washington

  • The Museum of Things That Don’t Make Sounds But Should

  • The Museum of Clouds That Look Like Stuff

  • The Museum of Hidden Art

  • The Two-Sided Museum

  • The Museum of What Just Happened

  • The Museum of When Am I

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