Institution Name
Address
Phone
Website
Austin History
Center
810 Guadalupe St
Austin
512-974-7480 www.austinhistorycenter.org
Austin Nature &
Science Center (&
Sheffied Center)
301 Nature Center
Dr Austin
512-974-3868 https://www.austintexas.gov/department/ Texas Natives! Get up
austin-nature-and-science-center
close and personal with the creatures that
share your backyard.
Austin Rock and
Roll Car Museum
4117 Commercial
Center Dr.
suite 500
Austin, TX
512-383-1660 www.austincarmuseum.org
Austin Tour Guide
Association
Two Locations
512 587 7948
SW corner of
th
Congress and 11 &
th
5 St next to the
Susanna Dickinson
house. Austin
http://austintourguides.org/
Blanton Museum of MLK at Congress
Art
(200 East MLK)
Austin
512-471-7324 www.blantonmuseum.org
Brush Square
Museums (O'Henry
& Susanna
Dickenson House &
Austin Fire
Museum)
512-974-3830 http://www.ohenrymuseum.org
409 E. 5th Street
Austin
411 E. 5th Street
Austin
Bullock Texas State 1800 Congress Ave
History Museum
Austin
Event Information
Hours
Come see our newest exhibit "Making the
Grade: Austin's First Public Schools" and
"Austin's Majestic Palace: The Paramount
Turns 100." At 2:00, local author and musician
Jesse Sublett will speak about his new book,
"1960s Austin Gangsters."
12:00 pm 6:00 pm
12:00 pm 2:00 pm
Rock & roll and cool car fans are invited to
10 am - 4pm
come see an amazing collection of vehicles and
one-of-a-kind items.
Experience historic downtown Austin with free 10:00 am walking tours led by experienced, certified local 4:00 pm
guides.
Be challenged and experience an Art Quest at
the Blanton. Enjoy navigating through the
galleries in new and unexpected ways where
you can look, question, and create.
1-5
See the Cisco Kid exhibit and learn about the
12:00 pm –
outlaw through an artistic exercise. Experience 3:00 pm
http://www.austintexas.gov/department/j the Unity Project, featuring native Austinites'
oseph-and-susanna-dickinson-hannigoral histories, and add your recording of Austin
museum
life. Activities include personalized haiku,
photos with museum subjects, and a walking
tour hosted by the City of Austin’s Art in Public
Places group.
512-936-8746 http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/
Whether your family is new in town or has
12:00 pm lived here for years, you are bound to discover 5:00 pm
something new about Austin and Texas at the
Bullock Museum. Join us and the Austin
Chamber of Commerce as we showcase the
best of what Austin's business community has
to offer.
Chateau Bellevue
708 San Antonio St. 512.472.1336
Austin
(Free parking in lot
on Nueces between
7th and 8th Streets)
chateaubellevueaustin.com/
City of Austin
Cultural Arts
Division
409 5th Street
Austin
Dougherty Arts
Center
1110 Barton Springs 512-974-4000 www.austintexas.gov/dac
Road Austin
512-974-7700 www.austincreates.com
DPS Museum – The 5805 N. Lamar Blvd. 512-424-2396 www.txdpsmuseum.com
Museum of the
Austin
Texas Department
of Public Safety
Elisabet Ney
Museum
th
304 E. 44 St.
Austin
512-458-2255
Step back in time and enjoy the Victorian
1:00 pm splendor of Chateau Bellevue. This magnificent 4:00 pm
mansion in the middle of downtown Austin
boasts some of the finest stained glass and mill
work of the period. Docents will be available to
give tours and light refreshments will be
served.
Discover public art downtown. The crawl starts 12:00 pm and ends at the Brush Square Museums and
3:00 pm
showcases the City’s Art in Public Places
collection. Meet on the front lawn at 1:00 for
an hour-long guided walking tour or grab a
map and take a self-guided stroll.
Keep Austin unique, fun, and weird by joining 12:00 pm in a site-specific art installation at the
4:00 pm
Dougherty Arts Center. Everyone is invited to
enjoy our gallery, collaborate on a colorful and
funky sculpture, participate in a Street Artist
Development Workshop, practice printmaking,
and play in our Pop-Up Maker Space.
Learn about road safety interactively by
12:00 pm experiencing driving perils through special
4:00 pm
goggles, seeing rollover and crash convincers,
and helping troopers inspect a big rig truck. See
police cars, a police helicopter, drug dogs,
SWAT, Crime Lab, horse/bike patrol, mobile
command, emergency management,
motorcycles and more. Junior trooper badges
for kids.
The historic Elisabet Ney Museum will host
12:00 pm Portraiture in the Park! Come get a free
5:00 pm
caricature, create masks of your friends and
family, get portraits in our photo booths, write
an homage to your pals, watch stone portrait
carving, make a clay bust, and much more.
Feel free to picnic. Food and dessert trucks will
be on site.
French Legation
Museum
802 San Marcos St
Austin
German-Texan
Heritage Society
507 East 10th Street 512-467-4569
Austin
Tour the German Free School, the first Austin 11:00 am school chartered by Texas Legislature and
4:00 pm
constructed in 1857. See historical displays
and films, meet Joseph Hannig, Austin
businessman and German immigrant husband
of Alamo survivor, Susanna Dickinson, and hear
German festival music.
Harry Ransom
Center
Guadalupe and 21st 512-471-8944 hrc.utexas.edu
St. Austin
Enjoy the exhibition, Frank Reaugh: Landscapes 12:00 pm of Texas and the American West, and view the 5:00 pm
Gutenberg Bible and First Photograph. Free
docent-led tours of the exhibition start at
noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
History of Medicine 401 W. 15th Street
Gallery
Austin
Texas Medical
Association
512-472-8180 www.earlyaustin.org
(512) 3701575
Celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the oldest
house in Austin, built in 1841 by the French
diplomat to the Republic of Texas. Enjoy tours
along with games and hands-on activities on
the lawn. We encourage you to bring a picnic
and find a cool spot under the oaks.
10:00 am 5:00 pm
http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id “Cutting Edge” traces the history of surgery
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with vintage instruments. Learn about why
4:00 pm
surgery became vital to modern medicine over
treatment. Americans experience seven
surgeries on average and compare yours with
today’s top inpatient and outpatients lists. Only
open the weekend of Austin Museum Day.
Jourdan-Bachman
Pioneer Farms
10621 Pioneer
512-837-1215 PioneerFarms.org
Farms Drive, Austin
Step back in time to when Texas' frontier spirit 10:00 am was really kicking. New exhibits and sites to
5:00 pm
explore for the whole family. Farm animals,
historical demonstrations and much more in an
historical adventure park.
Lady Bird Johnson
Wildflower Center
(512)-232-0100
4801 La Crosse
Avenue
Austin
Come and play with us at the center. Discover 9:00 pm nature, art, hear a story, and go on a scavenger 5:00 pm
hunt at the center. Enjoy bubbles and games
on the play lawn.
512-232-0100 http://www.wildflower.org/
Landmarks, the
21st and Speedway (512) 495public art program (101 E 21st St,
4315
of The University of Austin)
Texas at Austin
http://landmarks.utexas.edu
Join Landmarks for an hour-long, docent-led
11:00 am,
walking tour of a selection of modern and
1:00 pm
contemporary works in the public art collection
at UT Austin. Everyone is welcome to tours that
start at 11:00 and 1:00 at Joel Perlman’s Square
Tilt, near the entrance to the Perry-Castañeda
Library.
LBJ Presidential
Library
2313 Red River St.
Austin
512 721-0200 www.lbjlibrary.org
Come to enjoy "Ladies and Gentlemen…The
9:00 am Beatles!" The exhibit, curated by the GRAMMY 5:00 pm
Museum® and Fab Four Exhibits, explores The
Beatles' impact on American culture, fashion,
art, advertising, media and music from 19641966. Enjoy performances from the McCallum
Fine Arts Academy, a 2015 Grammy Signature
School.
Mexic-Arte
Museum
419 Congress Ave
Austin
512-480-9373
Join us for a Piñata-Making Workshop in the
Mexic-Arte Museum main gallery. Artist-inResidence Monica Lejarazu will be hosting a
piñata-making workshop while preparing a
giant float for the annual Viva la Vida Festival
Parade on October 31. Monica will teach
attendees how to create and decorate
their own smaller piñata.
Neill-Cochran
House Museum
2310 San Gabriel St. (512) 478Austin
2335
pump project
Republic of Texas
Museum
12 - 5
www.nchmuseum.org
Neill-Cochran House Museum invites guests to 12:00 pm visit with Civil War-era reenactors and churn
5:00 pm
ice cream under the shade of our 160 year-old
porch. Staff will offer tours of the historic
house and dependency, and young patrons are
encouraged to join us for games on the lawn.
702 Shady Ln.,
Austin
512-351-8571 www.pumpproject.org
Join us at Pump Project, a non-profit, East
12:00 pm Austin art space that provides working studios 5:00 pm
and gallery facilities to emerging and
established artists. At Pump Project artists
come together to work, experiment and
exhibit, actively enriching the community
through new ideas, innovative projects and the
creative spirit.
501 E Anderson Ln
Austin
512-339-1997 drtinfo.org
Experience life and culture during the Republic 12:00 - 4:00
of Texas era. Come play in Grannie's Backyard
and kitchen, dress in frontier clothes for a trip
in our covered wagon, and see displays of
Texas Patriots, including Sam Houston and Big
Foot Wallace. See the Philip Dimmitt Exhibit
and much more, including refreshments.
Save Austin's
Cemeteries
Oakwood Cemetery 512-917-1666
1601
Navasota/Comal
Austin
Meet historic Austin residents and hear their
9:00 am fascinating stories at Oakwood Cemetery which 12:00 pm
dates to 1839. Save Austin’s Cemeteries
volunteers will conduct tours at 9 am, 10 am,
and 11 am and answer questions. Come and
learn how Oakwood preserves the living history
of our community.
South Austin
Popular Culture
Center
1516-B South Lamar 512-440-8318 www.southpop.org
Blvd Austin
SouthPop collects, conserves, and exhibits
1:00 pm vintage posters and ephemera related to the
6:00 pm
Austin live music scene, from the 1960s to
today. Creating a dialogue between cultural
tradition and counter-culture, based around
Austin’s live music history and its impact,
SouthPop maintains a collection that provides
an immersive survey of this cultural movement
and keeps it weird.
Texas Capitol
Visitors Center
112 E. 11th Street
Austin
Explore the "Making Headlines: Texans During 12:00 pm the Civil War" exhibit. See the bible that
5:00 pm
stopped a bullet and saved Sam Houston Jr.'s
life, the only military medal created by the
Confederacy, and orders for the last war
engagement. Test your knowledge with the
Civil War Headline Quiz on your smartphone or
tablet.
Texas Historical
Commission
Texas Memorial
Museum
2400 Trinity St.
D1500
Austin
512.305.8400
www.texascapitolvisitorscenter.com
512-463-6100 www.thc.state.tx.us
Austin Museum Day Instagram Photo Contest:
Follow @TxHistComm and @austinmuseums,
take a photo at participating institutions and
post it to a public profile, tagging the
institution, #TxHistComm, #austinmuseums,
and #MuseumDay2015. We allow multiple
submissions. A juding panel will select 1st
through 3rd places and announce winners the
following week. Win museum memberships,
guest passes, and more.
9:00 am 9:00 pm
512-471-1604 www.texasmemorialmuseum.org
Texas Memorial Museum will be hosting
Identification Day. University scientists and
experts from Central Texas will be on hand to
identify natural objects such as fossils, bones,
rocks and prehistoric archeological materials.
Don’t miss this unique event.
1:00 pm 5:00 pm
Texas Military
Forces Museum
2200 West 35th St
Austin
512-782-5659
Texas Military Forces Museum tells the story of 10:00 am Texas forces from the Alamo to Afghanistan,
4:00 pm
from 1823 to present day. We showcase
artifacts, weapons, vehicles, uniforms, and
equipment including a running Sherman tank.
We will have specialists demonstrating leather
working, weapons, Civil War memorabilia, and
a plastic model make and take section.
Texas Music
Museum
1009 E. 11th Street 512-472-8891 www.texasmusicmuseum.org
Austin
or 512-4710520
12:00 pm 5:00 pm
Texas State Capitol 1100 N. Congress
Austin
512.463.0063
The Contemporary 3809 W 35th St
Austin
Austin
512-458-8191 www.thecontemporaryaustin.org
Wander through Texas’ natural ecosystems and 12:00 pm meet the animal inhabitants of its wildest
4:00 pm
landscapes (including our very own Laguna
Gloria!) at this Art-and-Nature event. Enjoy a
lively performance of Jules Buck Jones’ Animal
Facts Club Theater, get a handmade creaturethemed coloring book, watch artist
demonstrations, and grab a snack from a food
truck!
The Williamson
Museum
512-943-1670 www.williamsonmuseum.org
It is 1923 and District Attorney Dan Moody is
about to do the unthinkable—take on the Klu
Klux Klan. Explore this new traveling exhibit
and visit the original courtroom. Kids can
create the latest fashion of the 1920s by
making their own boater hats.
512-469-6200 thinkeryaustin.org
Join us for a day full of family fun and learning! 10-5
The entire Thinkery will have hands-on learning
and activities and content appropriate for
visitors with children of all ages. Come visit the
space where science smiles!
716 South Austin
Avenue
Georgetown
Thinkery - the new 1830 Simond Ave.
Austin Children's
Austin
Museum
www.tspb.state.tx.us
Come enjoy rare and interesting artifacts,
videos, and music, as well as four current
exhibits: Tejano Orquestas and the Great
Tejana Singers, Tejano Conjunto, East Austin
African American Musicians, and East Austin
Mexican American Musicians.
The Capitol Art Tour shows the capitol through 12:00 pm the eyes of its artists, featuring works created 3:30 pm
between 1880 and 1965. The tour includes
thirteen artists depicting Texas life and culture
on display throughout the Capitol. The half
hour-long tour departs from the South
Entrance at 2:00 and 3:00.
1:00 pm 4:00 pm
TXMOST: Texas
1220 Toro Grande
Museum of Science Drive Cedar Park
& Technology
512-961-5333 txmost.org
Come see Austin's first Planetarium for free!
11 am - 6 pm
The newly opened Texas Museum of Science &
Technology (TXMOST for short) has been
exhibiting BODY WORLDS, the Cycle of Life,
since mid-March!
Umlauf Sculpture 605 Robert E Lee
Garden & Museum Rd. Austin
512-445-5582 umlaufsculpture.org
Mingle with Texas Society of Sculptors during
SculptFest. Watch live sculpture
demonstrations, make art in the clay corner,
and enjoy local music. Tour the UMLAUF
collection and view UMLAUF Prize winners
Ryan Hawk and Gracelee Lawrence’s sitespecific exhibition of video and sculpture
selected by juror Suzanne Deal Booth.
10:00 am 4:00 pm
Women & Their
Work
512-477-1064 womenandtheirwork.org
The 20th Annual Red Dot Art Spree features
over 150 artists from Texas and beyond. This
inclusive exhibition has something for
everyone. We’ve got paintings, photographs,
prints, drawings and sculpture. For families
who visit on Austin Museum Day we’ll have a
special game of ‘I SPY”.
10:00 am 4:00 pm
1710 Lavaca Street
Austin