‘When you visit historical museums and peer into a glass covered case, you may often be presented with artifacts that claim to be both ancient and precious, though many of the exhibits often look more like the things you may find in the bottom of a kitchen drawer or in the corner of a garden shed.

However, when you peer into the bottom of a kitchen drawer or into the corner of a garden shed, you may also come across many forgotten objects - unrecognisable and lost artefacts, spare parts, broken bits of unused equipment, as well as a host of other unfamiliar and now seemingly unconnected ephemera.
Some of these artifacts look as though they belonged to a now lost civilization or are part of long forgotten invention - and should therefore be displayed behind glass in a science or historical museum.

As other institutions ignore these unusual and valuable objects, they have found their way to us. We exhibit these lost artefacts, whether they represent weird science, the culturally unrecognised, the absurd, the pastiche or the odd.
Individually the parts that make up each of the display cases may seem trivial, but collectively, when reassembled, they begin to illustrate an alternative history or a lost science and one that is perhaps, as valid as the mainstream historical and scientific facts we are usually presented with.’

The Ersatz Foundation realising that it’s premises can be difficult for many to visit have for several years now, sent out touring exhibitions of selected display cases, exhibits and their associated documents.

This allows a much wider public to see the more important exhibits from the collection as well as learn more about each one and the work the museum does. A full list of forthcoming venues and events is always available on request.