Take to the skies for an adventure unlike anything you’ll experience on the ground with Austin Aeronauts, where the Hot Air Balloons provide you with exciting, intriguing, and exceptional balloon trips. Whether you’re chartering a short journey with a few friends or looking to snap pictures of the beautiful landscape, they are ready to take you up on any custom, private, semi-private, scenic, and pleasure flight adventures you desire.
Get ready for the musical event of the year, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, where they feature a diverse lineup of acts every year with 9 stages, 100+ performances, and best of all, two weekends. Enjoy new artists like The National share the stage with heavyweights like Dave Matthews Band and Norah Jones. There’s plenty to do in between sets, including a mini-fest for kids, photogenic spaces, sponsored giveaways, and merch to bring home with you.
Create memories at the Texas Performing Arts, where each diverse season of music, theater, dance, and conversation, has connected people to the community of performing arts. Since then, a wide selection of talented performers from around the world has graced the stage, including Ella Fitzgerald, Robin Williams, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Royal Ballet of London.
The Elisabet Ney Museum is the historic home and studio of Elisabet Ney, a wildly iconoclastic German sculptor who moved to Austin in 1882. The museum enthusiastically celebrates her art, history, and legacy through exhibitions and events for the whole family. Her commissions include notable European luminaries and those who shaped early Texas history, including well-known Texans Stephen Austin and Sam Houston, whose portraits both stand in the national and state capitals today.