Museum of Curiosities
Museum founder, J. Marvin Hunter, Sr. often said that he did not collect items, they collected him. Museum guests are transported back in time when they walk through the galleries Mr. Hunter created with treasures from around the world. Explore cases that may contain Easter Eggs decorated in 1936 sitting next to a 2,000 year old corn cob found in a West Texas rock shelter. Other treasures include a birthing chair from the Middle Ages used in an Italian palace, the first piano brought to Bandera from Paris, France by way of New Orleans, and a rather large and unexplained collection of jarred oil samples - Texas gold. Nature’s oddities abound as one finds the mascot of small Texas museums – the two-faced goat - next to the mummified remains of a squirrel found in an attic and lovingly placed in a glass box by the homeowner. The list goes on.
On your visit take a close look at the building itself, as the walls contain a collection of fossils, petrified wood, and arrowheads. One fireplace was set with a rifle and bullet mold and the other was set with the millstone from a nearby Morman colony that settled along the Medina River in the 1850s.
On your visit take a close look at the building itself, as the walls contain a collection of fossils, petrified wood, and arrowheads. One fireplace was set with a rifle and bullet mold and the other was set with the millstone from a nearby Morman colony that settled along the Medina River in the 1850s.
