Museum
Thinkery
Hands-on children's museum built from decades of grassroots fundraising and donor gifts.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Thinkery, Austin's children's museum, traces the money behind its walls: a nineteen eighty-three museum without walls that ran science demonstrations out of a station wagon, a Dell family gift that got it downtown, and the fundraising campaign that eventually built its current home in Mueller. It follows the parents, donors, and board members who kept a nonprofit alive long before it had a building. Stand in the lobby and notice how much of what surrounds you was never free.
This audio guide was created using AI.