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Tour the stone home of Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson and learn how individual lives intersected with the Texas Revolution and early Austin. The free downtown museum uses period furnishings, family history, and guided interpretation to share the experiences of Dickinson, her daughter Angelina, and later residents.
Walk through immersive installations that combine light, sound, technology, sculpture, and audience participation at Wonderspaces Austin. The evolving indoor art show presents large-scale work by artists from around the world, creating a social, camera-friendly experience suited to dates, groups, and rainy-day exploration.
See landmark cultural objects and changing exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving photograph produced in a camera, while rotating displays draw from extensive literary archives, photography, film, art, and performing arts collections.
Step inside the Austin home of short-story writer William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. Free exhibits interpret his years in the city through personal objects, photographs, manuscripts, and stories, giving literature fans a compact look at the experiences that shaped works such as The Gift of the Magi.
Follow the story of Texas across three floors of artifacts, immersive exhibits, films, and rotating galleries at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. Located near the Capitol and UT campus, this Austin museum brings the state's people, cultures, industries, conflicts, music, and larger-than-life history together under one roof.
Visit the former studio and home of sculptor Elisabet Ney in Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood. The castle-like building preserves her portraits of influential nineteenth-century figures alongside period objects and rotating programs, while the surrounding grounds offer a quiet setting for discovering a remarkable Texas artist.
Encounter towering fossils, meteorites, minerals, and Texas wildlife at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum on the UT Austin campus. Exhibits connect prehistoric life and regional geology with biodiversity and current scientific research, creating an approachable indoor destination for families and curious visitors.
Step inside the presidency and turbulent 1960s at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin. Permanent and changing exhibitions use documents, photographs, recordings, personal objects, and interactive displays to examine Lyndon B. Johnson's life, civil rights legacy, Great Society programs, and years in the White House.
See tanks, aircraft, uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and immersive battle exhibits at the free Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry. Galleries trace Texas military service from the nineteenth century through modern deployments, while expansive outdoor displays appeal to history enthusiasts and families.
Oakwood Cemetery Chapel offers a thoughtful window into Austin history inside the city’s oldest municipal burial ground. The restored 1914 chapel stands among graves of early civic leaders and communities whose stories were not always preserved equally. Exhibits and educational programs explore the cemetery, archaeology discovered during restoration, and the people remembered across the grounds. Visit quietly, respect active memorial spaces, and pair the chapel with a reflective walk beneath.
Stroll among bronze and stone artworks in the shaded grounds of the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum near Zilker Park. Indoor galleries and an accessible outdoor collection showcase the work of Charles Umlauf alongside changing exhibitions, blending art, native landscaping, and a calm Austin setting.
Explore Black history, art, and culture in Austin at the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center. Permanent displays and changing exhibitions celebrate local communities, African American families, artists, and civic leaders, while the site hosts talks, performances, workshops, and family programs.
Experience contemporary art across the historic Laguna Gloria estate on Lake Austin. The sculpture park combines changing outdoor installations, wooded paths, waterfront views, and the Italianate Driscoll Villa, offering a distinctive Austin destination where art, architecture, history, and landscape meet.
Step into a sideshow-inspired collection of curiosities at the Museum of the Weird on Austin's historic Sixth Street. Wax figures, unusual creatures, classic monster memorabilia, and odd exhibits create a compact indoor attraction that celebrates the eccentric spirit behind the city's famous Keep Austin Weird identity.
Explore nearly two centuries of Austin history inside the Neill-Cochran House Museum, an 1856 Greek Revival home near the University of Texas. Furnished rooms, rotating exhibitions, and the site's surviving slave quarters open conversations about architecture, education, family life, enslavement, and the city's development.
Explore Mexican, Mexican American, and Latin American art and culture at Mexic-Arte Museum in downtown Austin. Exhibitions, community programs, and a museum store highlight contemporary and traditional creative voices, making this Congress Avenue institution an important stop for understanding the region's living cultural connections.
Explore a wide-ranging collection of European paintings, modern American and Latin American art, prints, drawings, and contemporary installations at the Blanton Museum of Art. The University of Texas museum pairs gallery discoveries with striking outdoor architecture, including Ellsworth Kelly's luminous Austin building.