The Carver Museum began as Austin’s first library for Black readers in 1933 — and grew into the city’s cornerstone of African-American history and culture. Housed in East Austin beside the Carver Branch Library, the museum’s core exhibition tells the African-American story in Austin from slavery to the present with photographs, oral histories and artifacts.
Its Juneteenth gallery honors the Texas-born holiday where it truly belongs; rotating art exhibitions showcase Black artists of Austin and beyond; and the museum’s theater and genealogy center serve a community that treats the Carver as a living room of memory — Juneteenth celebrations, Kwanzaa observances and family reunions of a whole people.
East Austin’s heart has an address on Angelina Street. The Carver has been keeping its beat for ninety years.
