Sometimes You Strike Out

Another rainy day finds us at the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera.  This turned out to be the strangest museum we’ve been to. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was displayed or how it was organized.

The first room inside the front door.

Established by J. Marvin Hunter, Sr., the Frontier Times Museum opened its doors on May 20, 1933.

It's hard to see but J Marvin Hunter is spelled out in marbles.

The museum is absolutely packed to the brim.

There were some interesting things to see

Then we would come across the weirdest things:

And this:

The museum is a larger than it looks from the outside and has several different rooms.  This tramp art picture frame was nice:

 Close-up of one corner.

We both left the museum thinking it was just very odd.

After we returned home I looked at their web site and it all made a little more sense:

“As visitors walk through the museum’s doors, they are transported back to the days when museums served as cabinets of curiosities, displaying wonderful and weird treasures.

Museum founder and luminary, J. Marvin Hunter, Sr., never said no to a gift to the museum’s collection.  He felt that if the artifact was important to the donor, then it should be important to everyone.”

Oh well, sometimes it’s a hit.  Sometimes a miss.

Teri