Best Free Exhibitions In Austin Near Me

4worldlovers: Develop your talents or start a new hobby in our classes and workshops at Laguna Gloria and online for both kids and adults!

Learn more about 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize recipient Lubaina Himid.

Jim Hodges: With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress)


To show our appreciation for your support, join us for members happy hour inside the Villa at Laguna Gloria.


Grab some popcorn and head to the amphitheater for our outdoor summer film series in partnership with Austin Film Society.

Visit our vibrant downtown art space or stunning lakeside sculpture park

4worldlovers: Women & Their Work is a nonprofit arts organization located in Austin that serves as a catalyst for contemporary art created by women living and working in Texas and beyond. For 45 years, Women & Their Work has brought groundbreaking art to Austin, with exhibitions, performances, and educational programs.

Your membership at Women & Their Work goes a long way to help us do the things we do. We offer membership levels to suit various levels of support. Join us in this endeavor. Click here to choose the level that best suits you and join online today! All levels include invitations to all events and gallery openings.

4worldlovers:
We will be closed on the following holidays: Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day.

HOT TIP FOR THOSE WITH FLEXIBLE SCHEDULES: Please consider visiting us on a weekday, as the museum is easier to browse the exhibits at your own comfort and pace.

Centrally located in the Historic 6th Street entertainment district in the heart of downtown Austin.

We are open 10am to 7pm every day, but we may be closed for certain holidays or bad weather.

Tickets to the museum are $12.99 for adults and $8.99 for kids under 8, and can be purchased in the shop.

The Museum of the Weird is located on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas (between Neches and Trinity Avenues). We are in the same building as Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts, our gift shop. Here’s the address:

Exit 6th Street. Go west on 6th Street until you see the intersection for Neches. After Neches, the museum is in the middle of the block on the right.

Exit 5th Street heading east. Take 5th passing Congress and continuing all the way to Neches. Turn left on Neches, and another left onto 6th. We’re in the middle of the block on the right.

Parking on most of 6th Street is free for up to 2 hours, otherwise there are plenty of paid parking lots and meters around the area. Free parking downtown on Sundays.

4worldlovers:
Through the preservation and exhibition of African American material culture, history, and aesthetic expression, the Carver Museum works to create a space where the global contributions of all Black people are celebrated. We accomplish this by telling stories about our local community and connecting those histories to larger narratives about Blackness. The Carver Museum is free and open to the public. Masks are encouraged inside the museum.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Boyd Vance Theatre renovation closure dates: June 2023 - March 2024

For interest in the artifact(s) donation procedure please visit our Donations & Collection Information Page.


Thank you for joining us at the 4th Annual Stay Black and Live 2023 Juneteenth Festival!


Carver Museum ATX would like to extend a very special thanks to our sponsors, community partners, vendors, volunteers, staff, and most importantly, the Carver community for showing up and showing out at the 2023 Stay Black & Live Juneteenth Celebration! We are still in awe at the amount of energy, work, sweat, and love poured into the week-long observance of Juneteenth.


The Carver is so proud of all the collaborations and partnerships this year. Everyone who contributed had such a unified energy, and we can’t thank each and every one of you enough. The 4th annual Stay Black & Live Juneteenth Festival was a huge labor of love, and we can’t wait to do it up even bigger in 2024. Together, we celebrate the ongoing commitment and dedication to our community, history, and legacy. Thank you, Carver Community!

*Photos by: Leta Harrison, Mari Hernandez, Steven Hatchett, and Michael Blue Smith - more photos coming soon!

He mission of this residency program is to support and promote both established and emerging artists of African descent who are largely underrepresented in institutions. SBMRP gives artists access to financial and institutional resources that lead to the development and advancement of their professional careers. This program is ideal for artists who have a progressive approach to both content and form and whose work reflects shifting paradigms around race, identity, nation, and place.

This exhibit features multimedia work and installations from our residency artists of Alexis Hunter, Elisha Luckett, and Elizabeth Hudson. On view March 16-July 29, 2023.

The Carver community garden and sunkn stage has breathed new life into the in the inactive Keeling pool. Recently repainted by Austin artist, Kelv Brown, this space is on its way to housing events in the fall. Renovated and reimaged by Greg Farrar, this space is outfitted by hand-mad seating, greenhouses, and consession stands. Master Gardener Harve Franks tneds the planter boxes, as we continue to uplift this hidden gem situated directly beside the Freedom Plaza behind the museum.

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