Museums, Galleries & Culture in Hill Country Day Trip
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Museums, Galleries & Culture in Hill Country Day Trip, checked by People of Austin. Museums, galleries, tours and historic Austin, including the free ones and the ones that are better with kids.
National Museum of the Pacific War
A Smithsonian-affiliated complex in Fredericksburg honoring Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz with extensive galleries, tanks and outdoor exhibits on the Pacific theater.
Pioneer Museum Fredericksburg
A collection of historic log cabins, homes and a smokehouse on a shaded downtown campus tracing Fredericksburg's German settler history.
LBJ Boyhood Home
The modest Johnson City house where a young Lyndon Johnson grew up, preserved by the National Park Service with free ranger-led tours.
Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm
A working 1918-era Hill Country farm inside LBJ State Park, staffed by costumed interpreters cooking, gardening and tending livestock the old way.
Texas Quilt Museum
A La Grange museum in two historic buildings devoted to quilts as art.
Gonzales Memorial Museum
Home of the Come and Take It cannon and the story of the first shot of the Texas Revolution.
Immortal 32 Memorial
Memorial outside the Gonzales Memorial Museum honoring the 32 Gonzales men who died at the Alamo.
Pioneer Village Living History Center
Recreated pioneer town of donated buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s in Gonzales.
Eggleston House
Dog-run style log cabin built in 1845 and part of the Gonzales museum district.
J.B. Wells House Museum
Fifteen-room Gonzales mansion built in 1885 and open as a house museum.
Gonzales County Jail Museum
Three-story jail used for nearly 100 years, with rebuilt gallows inside.