One Mission—Four Locations—Fostering Exploration of Our Nation’s Past
Research and Collections Division
Austin, Texas
512-495-4515
Mondays-Fridays
Reading Room:
10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Exhibits:
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Reservations recommended
Sam Rayburn Museum
Bonham, Texas
903-583-2455
Mondays–Fridays
9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturdays
10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Winedale Historical Complex
Round Top, Texas
979-278-3530
Mondays-Fridays
[by reservation only]
9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Holiday Closures
The University of Texas and the Briscoe Center Museums observe the following holiday closures:
| Memorial Day | 5/30/2022 | Monday |
| Independence Day | 7/4/2022 | Monday |
| Labor Day | 9/5/2022 | Monday |
|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving Day | 11/24/2022 | Thursday |
| Day after Thanksgiving | 11/25/2022 | Friday |
| Winter Break | 12/23/2022 | Friday |
| Winter Break | 12/26/2022 | Monday |
| Winter Break | 12/27/2022 | Tuesday |
| Winter Break | 12/28/2022 | Wednesday |
| Winter Break | 12/29/2022 | Thursday |
| Winter Break | 12/30/2022 | Friday |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | 1/16/2023 | Monday |
| Memorial Day | 5/29/2023 | Monday |
| Emancipation Day | 6/19/2023 | Monday |
| Independence Day | 7/4/2023 | Tuesday |
COVID-19 Advisory
The Briscoe Center and the University of Texas at Austin are committed to keeping our visitors, staff, and community safe and healthy. Details on hours and admissions to our locations can be found on pages linked above.
For the safety of all involved, we ask our in-person visitors to follow these guidelines:
- Please do not come to the Briscoe Center or its divisions if you or someone in your household is sick or feels ill.
- Face masks are strongly recommended but optional inside university buildings for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
- Please wash your hands well and often, and use our hand sanitizers where available.
The center continues to monitor online reference queries and requests. For more information on these services please use the form on our Contact Us page. Researchers can also utilize the center’s digital media repository (DMR), which contains over 150,000 photographs, letters, recordings, and other materials available for online study. Finally, the center’s finding aids and collection inventories are housed through a searchable online Finding Aid portal. The DMR and Finding Aid portal are great ways for researchers to broaden their knowledge of the center’s collections, inform their research requests, and formulate a plan for when the center reopens.
The Briscoe Center is an organized research unit of the University of Texas at Austin. We are closely monitoring and following instructions from the university’s leadership as they develop policies and procedures in regard to COVID-19 (coronavirus). In turn, the university follows guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as Austin Public Health. Please note that our policies may change at any time, depending on how the pandemic evolves. For more information on the university’s policies and recent announcements, please visit https://www.utexas.edu/coronavirus.
