A family favorite for everyone, the Museum offers exciting hands-on exhibits year round. Be a rock star on the Austin Kiddie Limits stage! When you?re done singing on stage, explore how people work, live and play together in a global city. Build from the ground up in the three-level Funstrunction Zone. Before you leave, take an imaginary ride on KidMetro - a ...

Voted Austin Chronicles: Best of Austin Tours in 2006! SegCity Austin is the most unique sightseeing experience and adventure in Austin, Texas. Jump aboard the self-balancing, battery propelled Segway and you'll glide right alongside Austin's greatest landmarks: Sixth Street, Congress Ave., The Bremond Block, The Governor's Mansion, the Texas Sta ...

When engineers reconstructed downtown Austin's Congress Avenue Bridge (Ann Richards Bridge)in 1980 they had no idea that new crevices beneath the bridge would make an ideal bat roost. Although bats had lived there for years, it was headline news when they suddenly began moving in by the thousands. Reacting in fear and ignorance, many people petitioned to hav ...

Written by Howie Richey.
Unlike San Antonio and much of the eastern Hill Country, Austin wasn?t strongly influenced by immigrants from Germany during the nineteenth century. But nonetheless, the Capital City benefits from a number of important Germanic contributions and connections. A concise architectural tour is a handy way to experience the Teutoni ...

Visit Lake Travis. If you are new to Austin, Lake Travis is west of Austin. Lake Travis has many public Parks and is considered a recreational lake. Mansfield Dam, built in 1946 created this rock bottom lake surronded by the Austin Texas hi ...

The Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, March 9 - 24 a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, contributes over $1.3 million annually to the youth of Texas with the help of over 3,000 volunteers, donors and sponsors. In its 70th year, the Star of Texas continues to serve the mission ?Promoting Youth Education ? Preserving Western Heritage,? while growing statewid ...

Written by Artly Snuff.

After all these years of waiting and the construction of its two new buildings to house the collections, the Blanton Museum of Art has opened on MLK Boulevard across from the Bob Bullock Museum after its 24-hour grand opening celebration April 29th. The Blanton, designed by the prestigious firm of Kallman McKinnell Wood A ...

The Texas Museum offers a plethora of historical items almost too many to name. Among other things, you will find old uniforms and period costumes, oil paintings, musical memorabilia, Native American artifacts, pistols, cookware, Republic of Texas money, lots of rare political items, postcards and photographs of old Texas scenes. This is not a small museum a ...

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Perhaps the best expenditure of your family dollars in Austin can be found in a purchase of some tickets on the Hill Country Flyer. This is the only Steam Train found in the Austin area and the trip is well worth the ticket price. There is nothing else in the Austin area that can compare to it, Perhaps even the Roller Gir ...