Contemporary Austin

Austin


This museum operates two separate sites. The Jones Center, downtown, features rotating exhibits representing new artists, spreading through two gallery floors plus the two-tier Moody Rooftop, an open-air event space with great city views. The Laguna Gloria (3809 W 35th St) is a 1916 Italianate villa on the shores of Lake Austin that holds temporary exhibits plus an engaging sculpture park.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Austin attractions

1. Mexic-Arte Museum

0.15 MILES

This wonderful, eclectic downtown museum features works from Mexican and Mexican American artists in exhibitions that change every two months. Many are…

2. Museum of the Weird

0.26 MILES

Pay the entrance fee in the gift shop, then step inside Austin's version of a cabinet of curiosities. It's more of a hallway of curiosities, really, lined…

3. Texas State Capitol

0.41 MILES

Completed in 1888 using sunset-red granite, Texas’ state capitol is the largest in the US, backing up the familiar claim that everything’s bigger…

4. Bat Colony Under Congress Avenue Bridge

0.54 MILES

Austin is known as the capital of Texas quirk, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's a city tradition to sit on the grassy banks of Lady Bird Lake and…

6. Hope Outdoor Gallery

0.8 MILES

For a wild collision of colors and art, make your way to this sprawling collection of graffiti that's been spray-painted across multilevel concrete ruins…

7. Blanton Museum of Art

0.85 MILES

A big university with a big endowment is bound to have a big art collection, and now, finally, it has a suitable building to show it off properly. With…

8. Texas State Cemetery

1.01 MILES

Revitalized in the 1990s, the state's official cemetery is the final resting place of key figures from Texan history. Interred here are luminaries…