Museum of the Weird

This place is a must see in Austin, especially for fans of the macabre, strange, oddities, and all things strange. This is the home of the famous Minnesota Ice Man!! The employees and owners were all so kind and chatted with me about my trip and experience in Austin, as I was visiting alone. They made me feel comfortable and welcome in the city. I highly recommend this museum. It is pretty small and cramped, so I recommend going during the week or off hours as to avoid crowds. It is also not accessible to those in wheelchairs that I could see. The gift shop is decently sized and had lots of interesting choices including shirts, stickers, magnets, bags, toys, postcards, and handmade jewelry from local artisans.

Super fun activity! Not too pricey, the whole family loved it. I will say- there are a lot of stairs, so it is not wheelchair friendly to see all of the stuff. Otherwise, super fun, staff was kind and friendly. Highly recommend.

I would actually rate this museum 3.5. It does house some truly weird things, but it is difficult to read up on a lot of them because of overcrowding of the exhibits, and poor lighting of the written descriptions. I also noticed that many of the life-sized features could use a good dusting! My grandsons enjoyed it (ages 14, 9, & 6).

It was exactly what we expected-a weird museum. The self-guided tour leads you through three levels of interesting objects ranging from movie props to folklore to fossils and even human remains. The tour is very affordable and the gift shop has a neat variety of off-the-wall items to explore. We thought this place would be an interesting place to burn some time and see something you don’t see everyday and we were right. If you are in the neighborhood it’s worth stopping by.

Museum lovers - this is a small, well-kept, and passionately curated series of corridors, flights, and secret rooms. It doesn't have great funding but is perfect in its own sense. The inhabitants range from sci-fi characters from popular movie franchises to dark and evil monsters from ages past, as well as few rare and interesting oddities that have made their home here. Check it out if you have time as a tourist in Austin.

Pretty much as expected, I thought the quality of the displays, information placards, etc was very well done adding to the over all experience. You can tell a lot of care went into curating everything. It's a small but robust collection between authentic oddities, to believable recreations/imaginings, fun movies props and wax figures.

This place was so cool, and right up my alley! I love all things spooky/strange. All the different levels and doors make it extra fun!

This place was being promoted by our hotel, glad we decided to head more into town to look for it. The guys in the front were super friendly and exploring all the mini rooms was really awesome