Summer at the Bullock 2025
May to August 2025
Enjoy a season of exploration and discovery with the Bullock Museum. Join us for an outstanding special exhibition, three floors of Texas History Galleries, programs for all ages, and great IMAX® films!
Experience the Bullock Museum like a VIP this summer! Become a Member to enjoy free admission, tickets to IMAX® documentary films, discounted program tickets, and more! Some exclusions apply.
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Summer Programs
Stay tuned for more details.
Engage with all things Texas through interactive programs for all ages and interests.
Music Under the Star: Fridays in June
The beloved concert series is back with free music on the Capitol Mall every Friday in June! Stay tuned for artist announcements!
Summer Make and Take: Wednesdays, June 4 through August 6
Drop by this summer for make-and-take crafts for all ages in the Museum lobby every Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Activities are included with Museum admission.
Bob Bullock’s Birthday Bash: Sunday, July 13
Enjoy free exhibition admission on Sunday, July 13 in honor of Bob Bullock’s birthday with family-friendly activities and complimentary ice cream (available while supplies last).
Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West
On view April 5 through August 24, 2025
Explore the dramatic interaction of religion and U.S. westward expansion in the 19th century through the diverse stories of preachers, pilgrims, and visionaries. Art, artifacts, and interactives bring to life the rapidly changing West and the conflicts that transformed America's religious landscape in ways that can still be felt today. Learn More.
Museum Members enjoy unlimited, free exhibition access. Join now!
Texas History Galleries
On view daily
Explore more than 16,000 years of history with three floors of immersive Texas History Galleries featuring ever-changing artifacts. Learn more.
See what's new in the Artifact Gallery.
Museum Members enjoy unlimited, free exhibition access. Join now!
Films in the IMAX® Theatre
Experience Laser technology and immersive audio on one of the biggest IMAX® screens in Texas.
Train Time
Screening on select days thorugh May 31, 2025
Join the crew of a giant freight train for an eye-popping, music-infused journey across America. Weaving together present-tech and racing steam locomotives, grit, glamour, and glorious landscapes, Train Time immerses viewers in a grand tapestry of American railroading.
Ancient Caves
Screening through August 31, 2025
Ancient Caves brings science and adventure together as it follows paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s climate in the most unlikely of places: caves.
Lasting Impressions
Screening through August 31, 2025
Lasting Impressions is a fully immersive 3D art and music experience that brings to life more than 100 of the world’s most famous French Impressionist masterworks. Audiences will experience the transformation of these masterpiece paintings as they come alive through cutting-edge 3D Motion Sculpting technology, inviting viewers to move into and through the canvas, thus fully inhabiting the worlds created by Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Manet, Cezanne and others.
Cities of the Future
Screening through December 31, 2025
Join us 50 years in the future and find smart cities designed to be completely sustainable. Explore how engineers are working to help meet the challenges of a changing world — from electric flying cars and aerial highways to smart buildings and solar energy beamed down from space.
Museum Members enjoy free documentaries all year long. Join now!
Blue Star Museums
The Bullock Museum is proud to be a Blue Star Museum for Summer 2025!
Active-duty military personnel and their families can gain free Bullock Museum exhibition admission from Armed Forces Day, May 17, throughLabor Day, September 1, 2025.
Free exhibition admission is available onsite at the ticketing counter to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, and up to five family members. Advance admission reservations are not available. Learn more.
SNAP and WIC participants and their families get free, year-round admission through Museums for All.
Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West has been organized by The New York Historical. Lead support for Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Major support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Research for this exhibition was supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West is sponsored by the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Hall Fund.
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The Bullock Museum, a division of the Texas State Preservation Board, is funded by Museum Members, donors, and patrons, the Texas State History Museum Foundation, and the State of Texas.