Yolanda Sanchez, founder and director of Round Rock Ballet Folklorico, will be presenting on the origins and traditions of Ballet Folklorico in this colorful Salon at the Williamson Museum!  

Dr. Jonathan Seefeldt with the Texas Living Waters Project will take us on an environmental history tour to connect us with current issues and future trajectories of freshwater flows in Texas.  

Amateur paleoartist and professional Texan Matt Flynn takes you on a journey to reveal the data in the strata of paleontology. Learn how advancements in the field have changed our understanding of dinosaurs. From the few and far between monsters of yesteryear to the high flying acrobats of today, watch as artists catch up to […]

Now Starring Texas! Since 1900, moving images have captured the people, landscapes, traditions, and stories of Texas. But both film and videotape are quickly obsolescing. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s mission is to preserve these important visual documents before it’s too late!  Over the last 20 years, TAMI has worked with individuals and […]

Join us on August 9th to talk pirates, navies, sailing ships and steamships with Julia Stryker, PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Julia studies women's labor at sea in the nineteenth-century British empire, and her research on maritime culture has taken her from Newfoundland to Matagorda Bay and beyond.  

In September 1923, a trial began in Williamson County's 26th District Courtroom. That case, presided over by Judge James R. Hamilton and prosecuted by Dan Moody, pitted the rule of law against the vigilantism of the Klu Klux Klan, and became a watershed event for the fall of the "Invisible Empire."   To commemorate the […]

Texas Music Road Trip: Sounding the Geography of Central Texas From Buddy Holly on the high plains to Janis Joplin in Port Arthur, Freddy Fender in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to Blind Lemon Jefferson in Deep Ellum, Texas’s musical history is rich, diverse, and essential. And as with so much else, Central Texas is […]

The Night Owl Before Christmas   Join us for a special holiday Salon featuring ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future! Stephen Belyeu, producer and host of the Night Owl podcast, will be at the museum to to discuss Dickensian ghosts, historical holiday hauntings, what makes for a good paranormal podcast, and whatever else comes […]

The Art of Loaning Art   Join us at Wildfire on January 10th to welcome Ester Harrison, Art Registrar for Loans and Exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center, as we follow the Center's art from Austin to South Africa.   6:30 PM at Wildfire restaurant, 812 South Austin Avenue Georgetown TX 78626 The Salon at […]

Fire of Love documentary screening   Join us at the museum on February 14th for a special Valentine's Day Salon: A screening of the Oscar-nominated, National Geographic documentary film Fire of Love.      "Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed […]

 Go Beyond the Road with TxDOT: Wilco Edition   What goes into (and under) Texas's roads and highways? Rebekah Dobrasko, Cultural Resources Director for TxDOT Environmental Affairs, will take us on a road trip through TxDOT's environmental planning, archaeological sites in Williamson County, the discovery of Inner Space Caverns, and preserving the historic Austin Avenue […]

Women of Wilco with Helen Cordes     Meet some wonderful women of Wilco! Journalist Helen Cordes went digging for Wilco herstories and found amazing females who made life better in lots of Wilco towns. From Buttercup to Weir, these ladies—from pioneering doctors to suffragists to tough cowgals to business queenpins—inspired future generations and contributed […]