Austin History Center: The City’s Memory Keeper on Guadalupe
Every photograph of old Austin you have ever loved lives here. The Austin History Center, in the handsome 1933 Italian Renaissance Revival building on Guadalupe...
Category : Museums
UMLAUF Sculpture Garden: Bronze, Bamboo and Austin Calm
A few leafy blocks from Zilker Park, bronze figures dance, reach and rest among bamboo groves and native plantings. The UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum...
Susanna Dickinson Museum: The Messenger of the Alamo’s Austin Home
She survived the Alamo and carried Travis’s plea to Sam Houston — then lived out her most prosperous years in a rubble-rock cottage in Austin....
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center: Art by the Lake
On the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, a sweeping crescent of a building guards Austin’s Latino cultural flame. The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American...
Pioneer Farms: Austin’s Living History Village on Walnut Creek
Walk through the gate at Pioneer Farms and the 21st century falls away. This 90-acre living history museum in North Austin assembles Texas life a...
Texas Military Forces Museum: Texas Valor at Camp Mabry
Behind Camp Mabry’s gates sits one of Texas’s biggest — and freest — history museums. The Texas Military Forces Museum spreads 45,000 square feet of...
South Austin Museum of Popular Culture: Posters, Punk and Austin Soul
Austin’s music has a look — and it was drawn by hand. The South Austin Museum of Popular Culture (SAMOPC) preserves the poster art that...
Elisabet Ney Museum: A Sculptor’s Castle in Hyde Park
She sculpted kings in Europe, then came to Texas and built a castle in Hyde Park. Elisabet Ney — who carved Bismarck and Garibaldi before...
Texas Music Museum: The Soundtrack of the Lone Star, Preserved
Texas music didn’t start with Austin’s rock clubs — it started with fiddles, accordions and church harmonies across a dozen cultures. The Texas Music Museum,...
O. Henry Museum: The Short Story Master in His Austin Cottage
Before he was O. Henry, he was William Sydney Porter — bank teller, draftsman and Austin bon vivant, living in a modest Queen Anne cottage...
