Austin – Page 2 – Mental Break Town

Austin has a variety of great museums of all shapes and sizes. And they all seem to have their own oddball hours. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It can be hard to plan a museum trip with so many irregular hours floating around, so I’m compiling a quick cheat sheet of some of Austin’s top museums and their hours, with links of course.

👉 I’ll expand and update this over time, but this is a start, focusing on art museums.

Museum	Hours	Notes
The Blanton Museum of Art	Mon: Closed Tues-Fri & Sun: 10am-5pm Sat: 10am-8pm	On the UT campus. Home to Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin.
The Contemporary Austin: Jones Center on Congress	Wed, 12—9P Thurs – Sat, 12—6P Advanced tickets encouraged.	Downtown, Congress & 7th. Walking distance to lots of stuff. Free admission all day on Thursdays!
The Contemporary Austin: Laguna Gloria	Wed, 9A—3P Thurs, 9A—9P Fri – Sun, 9A—3P	Beautiful campus in West Austin. Free admission all day on Thursdays!
Harry Ransom Center	Closed Monday. Tues – Fri: 10am–5pm Sat – Sun: 12pm–5pm	On the UT campus near the drag. Check out the The Gutenberg Bible or the earliest surviving photograph.
Elisabet Ney Museum	Wednesday – Sunday 12pm – 5pm Closed: Monday and Tuesday	Hyde Park. Free. Home of the namesake German sculptor.
Mexic-Arte Museum	Mon – Thurs 10 AM – 6 PM Fri – Sat 10 AM – 5 PM Sun: noon – 5 PM	Downtown, Congress & 5th. walking distance to lots of stuff.