AVATAR Transports Moviegoers to Another World
AVATAR: An IMAX 3D Experience is now playing in the IMAX Theatre. Experience this groundbreaking epic as it was meant to be seen -- in 3D and on the biggest screen in Texas. Get tickets and showtimes...
American Sabor Exhibition Opens Saturday, February 13
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music is a bilingual exhibition that tells the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music. Explore the history, the sounds, the music, the dances. Learn more…
On Saturday, February 13, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., the Museum celebrates the opening of American Sabor with FREE instrument making workshops. Don't miss it!
Sounds of Texas: Hannibal Lokumbe
Award-winning jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe presents Dear Mrs. Parks in the Texas Spirit Theater on Saturday, February 13 at 8 p.m. The performance --with a jazz quintet and a choir-- pays homage to Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement. Get details and make your reservation…
Behind the Scenes: The Life of An Artifact
Have you ever wondered about the process that newly incoming artifacts go through as they arrive at the Museum? The Museum's Exhibits staff created a short video to take you behind the scenes of artifact processing and installation using the annual replacement of 576 postcards on the Third Floor postcard wall. Watch the video on our Multimedia Page...
Wild Texas Weather Takes the Museum by Storm
Wild Texas Weather is a gale-force, immersive theater presentation about Texas's wild weather. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October at the Museum's Texas Spirit Theater and is now showing daily. Watch the trailer...
Now Showing in the IMAX Theatre
Here are the films you can catch at the IMAX Theatre: AVATAR: An IMAX 3D Experience ; Texas: The Big Picture; and MacGillivray Freeman's The Alps.
New in the Museum's Main Exhibits
Did you know that more than a dozen new additions have been installed just in the past few weeks? As a non-collecting institution, the Museum is constantly borrowing different rare artifacts to tell The Story of Texas. Read about the latest additions...
This Day in Texas History
On February 24, 1836, Colonel William Barrett Travis wrote his famous letter from the Alamo: “I shall never surrender or retreat.” Learn more about Texas history in the month of February...
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