UT Faculty Engage on Memorial Museum

Supporters meet with Bill Powers

"...Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the Texas Memorial Museum, which faces budget cuts of about $600,000..."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

UT to Slash Memorial Museum Funding

Supporters search for alternate funding

"...The Texas Memorial Museum, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary in..."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Feature by Mac McCann

Your Guide to Austin Museum Day

Discover Austin-area museums Sunday, Sept. 22, for free!

"...Since 1998, the Austin Museum Partnership has coordinated Austin Museum Day, a free day..."

Sept. 18, 2019 Events Post

Austin Museum Day

Not sure where to start planning your Austin Museum Day?

"...Explore Austin-area museums — for free September 19th! The 24th Annual Austin..."

Sept. 16, 2021 Events Post

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...Here comes the 23rd annual Austin Museum Day, citizen, that free celebration of art, culture, history,..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

Alums Fight UT Museum Funding Cut

Grassroots campaign hopes to restore budget

"...On January 15, 2014, UT-Austin's Texas Memorial Museum celebrated its 75th anniversary. But while the..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

Day Trips: Statues of Texas Women

A list of Texas women who stand tall

"...Statues of Texas women are in short supply compared to likenesses of..."

March 6, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial, Grapevine

Poignant monument pays tribute to those who lost their lives

"...The 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial in Grapevine remembers the 33 airline employees, 71 law..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Buda, Mini-Golf and War Memorial Are Ingeniously Paired

A veteran's story inspires across generations at the Memorial Miniature Golf and World War II Museum

"...Etta Jeane, named after his little sister back in Texas, and stenciled it with red paint...."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Ali Montag

Day Trips: Otis Henry Memorial, Texarkana

World War I monument memorializes the depths of a mother’s loss

"...The Otis Henry Memorial in Texarkana shows the depths of a mother's love..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Spamarama’s Happening, Kombucha Is A-Tappening, Texas Wine Auction’s Got the Deals, the Roosevelt Room’s on Wheels, and Nolan Ryan Outpitches Those Damned Tornados …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...here in the increasingly money-frenzied environs of the metastasizing Texas capital...."

March 30, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

“Young Latino Artists 22: ¡Ahora!” at Mexic-Arte Museum

At a time when Hispanic identity is ever more complex, the artists in “YLA 22” seem pretty sure of their own

"...occasion been considered demographically white, even here in Central Texas, where "whiteness" was sometimes more a matter of wealth..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself

"...we look at comics and at the past, particularly Texas' past...."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips: Bat-Watching in Texas

Six places to watch the bats

"...one of the most beautiful spectacles of nature, and Texas has them in abundance...."

June 18, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, planted dramatically at the north end..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Best Urban Archeological Application

Mangia Dinasaur Reconstructed by Texas Memorial Museum

"...sorry condition after vandals uprooted the pizzavore, but the Texas Memorial Museum team of paleontologists (including a personal physician!)..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Best of Austin Feature

Best Inner City Jurassic Park

TIE: Texas Memorial Museum; Austin Nature & Science Center

"...American youth. Thanks to the Dino Pits at the Texas Memorial Museum and the Austin Nature Center, junior archaeologists..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Best of Austin Feature

Best Rainy Day Hideaway

Texas Memorial Museum

"...Our favorite antidote to the 1990s, the Memorial Museum is almost a museum piece itself: dim, cool,..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Best of Austin Feature

Confederate Statue Report Released

UT task force recommends taking action

"...looked over the South Mall at the University of Texas at Austin. Since at least the Sixties, the statues..."

Aug. 10, 2015 News Post by Mac McCann

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...if you spent $80 million to build a history museum, and you had nothing to put in it? That..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Best Place To Let the Kids Wander

Texas Memorial Museum at UT

"...The museum has four floors of things that kids of all..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Best of Austin Feature

TMM: A Pterosaur's Eye View

A brief history and profile of the Texas Memorial Museum at UT

"...The Texas Memorial Museum is on the north side of the..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

UT Slashing Funding for a 'Treasure'

"...UT will slash funding for the community institution, the Texas Memorial Museum [“UT to Slash Memorial Museum Funding,” News,..."

Nov. 19, 2013 Postmarks

Dinosaur-Track Rescue Mission Under Way at UT ... Slowly

Bureaucratic hurdles not withstanding, legendary fossils could soon have new home.

"...of dinosaur tracks that have been deteriorating outside UT's Texas Memorial Museum for nearly two decades could soon have..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

day trips

"...The state of Texas now has an official state dinosaur. Add that to..."

May 30, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Culture Flash!

Austin museums want you, and Richard Buckley conducts in the Windy City

"...long has it been since you've been in a museum? Well, that's too long! But since Sunday, Sept. 10..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Day Trips

"...The dinosaurs lived here 105 million years ago, when Texas was covered by a vast coastal swamp. Paleontologists theorize..."

July 23, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Art

Art Openings

"...Gallery (Mar 4); "N-O-N," Terra Children's Gallery (Mar 5); "Texas Film Art," Pro-Jex (Mar 5); "C-21 Expo -- Metamorfosis,"..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Making the Scene

Looking back at the time when Austin was at the center of the Texas art world

"...and you're ready for the exam (or, perhaps, the museum), where images of paintings loom on a screen (or..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Art

Art Openings

"...AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART, DOWNTOWN, 823 Congress, 495-9224. "Fresh Ink: Austin..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

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