Amusements

• Chuck E. Cheese's
  10515 North Mopac Expressway • Austin, TX 78759
  512-372-4700
  Chuck E. Cheese's offers games, rides, prizes, food, and entertainment that children of all ages will love. The entire family will enjoy their freshly baked pizzas and garden fresh salad bar. Visit for everyday fun or they can host special occasions. This is truly "where a kid can be a kid." more...  map

• Dave & Buster's
  9333 Research Boulevard • Austin, TX 78759-7364
  512-346-8015
  Great food and big fun served up by the friendliest people in town more...  map

• Laser Quest
  523 Highland Mall Boulevard • Austin, TX 78752
  210-520-8555
  An interactive adventure game played in a multi-level maze where fog, music and special effects combine to provide an incredible 21st century combination of tag and hide & seek. Unbeatable fun for birthday parties, school field trips, youth groups or corporate teambuilding.  more...  map

• Laser Tag Of Austin
  1701 West Ben White Boulevard • Austin, TX 78704
  512-462-0202
  This laser tag adventure centre offers a variety of game scenarios, and offers special packages for birthdays, group events, corporate events, and summer camps. Pizza and drinks are available when players need to take a breather from all the exciting action. more...  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

• Governor's Mansion
  1010 Colorado and West 11th • Austin, TX 78701
  512-463-5516
  This governor's residence, completed in 1856 and built in the Greek revival style, has been the home of every Texas governor since its completion, and has been called the "most historic house in Texas." This registered National Historic Landmark is the "oldest executive residence west of the Mississippi, the fourth oldest in the Nation, and the oldest to survive and function essentially in its original configuration."  map

• Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farm
  11418 Sprinkle Cut-Off Rd • Austin, TX 78754
  512-837-1215
  Over fifteen reconstructed farm buildings, crop fields, pasture land, and an Indian midden are contained within this seventy-acre tract on Walnut Creek in far northeast Austin. Costumed interpreters present and demonstrate the ways of Nineteenth Century farm and prairie life in this living history museum. more...  map

• St. David's Episcopal Church (circa 1853)
  304 East 7th Street • Austin, TX 78767
  512-472-1196
  The building of this still active church dates back to the mid-Nineteenth Century and includes stained glass windows, some of which date back to 1876, a pulpit that dates to 1869, an Italian marble altar from 1900, and chairs and choir stalls that date to the 1880s. The Gothic building has an impressive facade that reaches towards the heavens. more...  map

• St. Mary's Cathedral
  204 East 10th Street • Austin, TX 78701
  512-476-6182
  It's easy to miss this graceful Gothic cathedral, as it is overshadowed and surrounded by newer secular structures. But, once it has been found, it stands out all the more, with its graceful and evocative architecture set against the clean, plain angles of the modern structures that have sprouted and grown around the cathedral. more...  map

• Symphony Square
  Red River and 11th • Austin, TX 78701
  512-476-6064
  The four limestone buildings that constitute Symphony Square were moved stone by stone from nearby locations. These historical buildings, and an ampitheatre, now serve as the headquarters of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.  more...

Museums & Galleries

• Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
  23rd and San Jacinto Streets • Austin, TX 78701
  512-471-7324
  Displays from the permanent collection are supplemented by an assortment of temporary loan exhibits from art centres all over the world, at this art museum that is affiliated with the University of Texas. The museum's permanent collection includes over 11,000 works that cover eras from antiquity to modern times. more...  map

• Atrium Gallery
  3100 South Congress Street • Austin, TX 78704
  Moody Hall, St. Edward's University
  512-448-8404
  Exhibits change on a regular basis at this fine arts gallery.  map

• Attal's Southwest Gallery
  3310 Red River • Austin, TX 78705
  512-476-3634
  Although this gallery may be the place that one can find many items, including furniture, prints, postcards, medicine bottles, Texana, and road maps--- the items that are specialized in are books, manuscripts and photographs.  map

• Austin Museum of Art Museum
  823 Congress Avenue @ 9th Street • Austin, TX 78701
  Loctated in Downtown Austin
  512-495-9224
  A community-oriented museum, the mission of the Austin Museum of Art is "to challenge and engage the audience with the intellectual and disparate cultural aspects of creativity and art itself." The museum's permanent collection includes 20th century and contemporary paintings, photographs, prints and drawings and a number of changing exhibits explore a diverse range of themes and styles. The AMOA Museum Store offers a wide range of art-inspired gifts, jewelry, books, and toys. more...  map

• Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
  1800 North Congress Avenue • Austin, TXLocated in Downtown Austin
  512-936-8746 or 512-936-4649
  A division of the State Preservation Board, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum tells the story of Texas through exhibits and programs. The museum houses three floors of interactive exhibits, a special effects show, an IMAX Theatre, featuring the signature large-format film, Texas: The Big Picture, and a 35-foot-tall bronze Lone Star sculpture. The Museum also has a cafe and a museum store. more...  map

• Elisabet Ney Museum (circa 1892)
  304 East 44th Street • Austin, TX 78751
  512-458-2255
  This museum was once Formosa, the studio of Nineteenth-Century European portrait sculptor Elisabet Ney. After the death of the artist, her studio was preserved with its contents, and is now open as a museum and memorial to this gifted artist who did much to shape Texas' love and support of the arts. One can view portraits from life of mid 19th century European intellectuals, artists, and nobility, together with portraits of distinguished frontier Texans. more...  map

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
  2313 Red River Street • Austin, TX 78705
  Located on The University of Texas Campus
  512- 721-0200
  Situated on a 30-acre site, the LBJ Library and Museum is one of 11 presidential libraries headed by the National Archives and Records Administration. This one in particular features 40 million pages of historical documents which include papers regarding the entire public career of Lyndon Baines Johnson and those of close associates. The museum hosts traveling exhibitions in reference to American history. more...  map

• Neill-Cochran House Museum (circa 1855)
  2310 San Gabriel • Austin, TX 78705
  512-478-2335
  This house museum is open for touring, and can be the site of special events, such as luncheons, seminars, meetings, receptions, teas, bridge parties and other happenings. Master builder Abner Cook designed the house for Washington L. Hill in the mid-1800s; his design of the house shares many similarities with the design of the Governor’s Mansion, which was also built by Cook. The house is distinguished by its fusion of the Greek revival style with native Texas materials, and has been touted a “jewel and perfect example of the Texas version of the Greek Revival in the South” by the National Trust for Historical Preservation. This beautiful home is now preserved by the Colonial Dames as a furnished house museum. Tues-Sat 2-5, or by special appointment. more...  map

• O. Henry Museum
  409 East Fifth Street • Austin, TX 78701
  512-472-1903
  This cottage was the home of William Sydney Porter for two of the thirteen years that he lived in Austin. Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was known as the master of the short story, because of his tales in which much use was made of dramatic and poignant irony that would add an unexpected twist at the ends of most of his stories. The cottage now houses memorabilia that recalls Porter's years in Austin, during which he worked at various occupations, such as bank teller, pharmacist, draftsman and reporter--- short-lived vocations that gave the writer experiences that later helped shape his fiction. more...  map

• Ruth Borinstein Gallery
  3300 Bee Caves Road • Austin, TX 78746
  512-306-8848
  This art-as-investment gallery has assembled exhibits of works by Miro, Chagall, Dali, Rembrandt, Coya, Lautrec, and Renoir.  map

• Texas Memorial Museum
  2400 Trinity Street • Austin, TX 78750
  University of Texas campus
  512-471-1605
  A 30-foot-long fossil mosasaur, gleaming minerals from the Barron Collection, Ice Age mammals, early elephants, and a giant Great Texas Pterosaur, are just a few of the permanent exhibitions to be seen at this science and history museum. Exhibit areas include paleantology, zoology, geology, history and anthropological exhibits. more...  map

• Texas Military Forces Museum
  2200 West 35th • Austin, TX 78763
  Camp Mabry
  512-406-6967
  This is the only museum to trace the history of the Texas military from the time of the Texas Revolution to the present day. There are a great number of exhibits that explore historical happenings, such as battles of the Texas Revolution, the Spanish American War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and a multitude of various Texas military organizations.  more...  map

• Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum
  605 Robert E. Lee Road • Austin, TX 78704
  Near Zilker Park
  512-445-5582
  The works of Austin sculptor Charles Umlauf are displayed throughout the garden and the interior of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, which takes as its mission the providing of "educational experiences that encourage the understanding and appreciation of American sculpture." The facility is available for tours and can be rented for private events, and the curator hopes that all who come in contact with these exquisite sculptures and the gardens surrounding the museum will gather from the artworks the kind of personal experience with art that Umlauf wished to convey in his work, and when he said, "All art which is lasting has a certain religiousness about it. It must be felt, it must be personal and it must have its own conviction." more...  map

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• Austin Zoo
  10807 Rawhide Trail • Austin, TX 78709
  512-288-1490, 800-291-1490
  The Austin Zoo shelters more than 60 exotic and domestic species of mammals, reptiles, and birds. more...  map

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
  4801 La Crosse Avenue • Austin, TX 78739
  512-292-4100
  The product of Lady Bird Johnson's great concern about the rapid disappearance of native plants, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center highlights the ecological and aesthetic importance of native wildflowers and other native plants, trees, and shrubs. Research is shared with all interested at this national research center that studies the ecology, habitats, and the best ways to grow and preserve the natural wildflowers and flora of the region and the nation itself. Tours of the center and its grounds are offered to the public and the site also includes a gift store and the Wildflower Cafe. more...  map

• Zilker Metropolitan Park
  2100 Barton Springs Road • Austin, TX 78704
  Located Between Robert E. Lee and Loop 1
  512-472-4914
  "Austin's most loved park," the 351-acre Zilker Metropolitan Park is the home of Barton Springs, Texas' most venerated swimming pool, Zilker Botanical Gardens, the Austin Nature and Science Center, Zilker Hillside Theatre, and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. The park also includes picnic tables, sand volleyball courts, a nine-hole disc golf course, nine soccer fields, a rugby field, two multi-use fields, hiking and biking trails, and group shelters. more...  map

Tours & Cruises

• Armadillo Express
  Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority • Austin, TX 78701
  512-474-1200
  The distinctive, green trolley-like "Dillos" are a good way to get around downtown and avoid the inevitable parking hassles.  map

• Around Austin
  4831 Spicewood Springs Road • Austin, TX 78759
  512-345-6552
  Personalized service to both small groups and convention masses is provided by Around Austin.  map

• Gliding Revolution
  49 East Avenue • Austin, TX 78701
  512-495-9250
  Gliding Revolution provides Segway guided tours, rentals and Segway team building events for groups of all sizes.  more...  map

• Hill Country Flyer
  610 Brazos St • Austin, TX 78767
  Runs from Cedar Park to Burnet
  477-8468
  Number 786, a restored Southern Pacific steam locomotive built in 1916, pulls an assortment of cars from the 1920's to the 1950s.  map