{"id":441865,"date":"2026-09-20T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441865\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:36:11","slug":"austin-museum-day-returns-with-free-admission-to-more-than-35-museums-and-cultural-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441865\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Museum Day returns with free admission to more than 35 museums and cultural sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 29th annual event includes special programs and activities at museums and cultural sites across Central Texas.<\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Central Texans will have a chance to explore dozens of museums and cultural sites across the region for free during Sunday\u2019s Austin Museum Day.<\/p>\n

The annual event returns for its 29th year, offering free admission to more than 35 participating museums and cultural sites.<\/p>\n

The event includes well-known destinations such as the Bullock Texas State History Museum, as well as smaller museums like the Neill-Cochran House Museum.<\/p>\n


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Kimberly Crabb, co-chair of Austin Museum Day, encourages visitors to use the event as an opportunity to discover museums they may not have visited before.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times people think about the museums in Austin, and they think about the big-name museums like the Bullock or the Blanton, and they really miss out on some of the smaller gems that are available,\u201d said Crabb, who is also museum program coordinator at the Bullock Texas State History Museum.<\/p>\n

Many participating museums will also offer special programming throughout the day.<\/p>\n

The Bullock Texas State History Museum will serve as the headquarters for Austin Museum Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where people can come and get a map of all the museums that are included,\u201d said Crabb. \u201cThey can get tote bags and postcards posters and stickers until we run out. They\u2019ll also have coffee and tacos for sale. So, it\u2019s kind of a fun way to start your day, plan your day and then go check out all the fun museums.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Crabb\u2019s favorite participating sites is the Texas State Cemetery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know most people don\u2019t think about it as a museum, but it has so much Texas history, from sports stars, music stars, political figures are buried there,\u201d said Crabb. \u201cThey have a special area with Texas history there, and also the grounds are beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

A full list of participating museums, cultural sites and special activities is available through the Austin Museum Day website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 29th annual event includes special programs and activities at museums and cultural sites across Central Texas. AUSTIN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-441865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}