One spark of inspiration is all you need for your next big idea at the Thinkery, where each exhibit is hands-on, play-based learning, with activities and content appropriate for visitors of all ages. Create colorful works of art, take apart toys or build and launch gliders at the Spark Shop. See, feel and hear the connections between water and sound at the Currents exhibit. Find out how color, light, and shadows impact the environment at the Light Lab. Participate in sensory exploration, chemical reactions, and edible minerals in the Kitchen Lab. Imagine buying and selling delicious fruits and vegetables or collecting eggs from a pretend chicken coop in Fresh! Farmers’ Market. Step outside to the Backyard and scale the heights of a universally-accessible, custom-designed climber, or rest under the branches of a native elm tree.
Are you brave enough to try out your comedic talent in front of an audience? Then try out your humorous material at the Velveeta Room, where you'll be in an intimate, laugh-filled room where local and touring comics can let their hair down on and off stage. Best of all, this club is run by and built for comics, so enjoy your night with a slew of cheesy jokes from amateurs and professionals featuring live, uncensored comedy.
The Cathedral of Junk is in the backyard of the artist who created it as a living sculpture, meaning it is always in flux as its creator, owner, and curator, Vince Hanneman, also known as The Junk King continues adding to it. The building is like a Cathedral that has a hollow framework of improvised trusses and wires that are packed with lawn mower wheels, car bumpers, kitchen utensils, ladders, cables, bottles, circuit boards, bicycle parts, brick-a-brack, and a lot of stuff that is unidentifiable.
Check out The Escape Game in Austin, an immersive, story-driven, multi-room adventure that your friends and family can enjoy together. Put your critical thinking caps on, follow clues, and work together as a team to escape before the time is up. Which one of the five themed escape rooms will you choose?