Mexic-Arte Museum
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Mexic-Arte Museum is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 148 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is The Sisterhood of Two Hearts, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 3.9 miles off. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mexic-Arte Museum is a fine arts museum in Austin, Texas. The Mission of the organization is to enrich and educate the community through the presentation and promotion of traditional and contemporary Mexican, and Latino art and culture. Founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1984 by Sam Coronado and Sylvia Orozco, Mexic-Arte Museum is the Official Mexican American Fine Art Museum of Texas as per the 78th Texas legislature in 2003. In 1988, the museum relocated to its current location on Congress Avenue in Austin. In 2016, the Screen It! program was one of twelve awardees of the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Awards.
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Dates from 1983.
Wikidata Q14711046, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 3.9 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 22.7 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 24.5 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Sisterhood of Two Hearts: 0.0 mi
- Lead to Live: 0.0 mi
- Dale Shine: 0.0 mi
- Tejedoras del Espíritu: 0.0 mi
- Black Austin Matters: 0.2 mi
- Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Bldg.: 0.0 mi
- Original Site of First Methodist Church of Austin: 0.0 mi
- Hotel Provident & Heierman Bldg.: 0.0 mi
- Scarbrough Building: 0.1 mi
- Littlefield Building: 0.1 mi
- Brush Square: 0.2 mi
- Republic Square: 0.3 mi
- Roberta Crenshaw Overlook at Shoal Beach at Town Lake Metro Park: 0.3 mi
- Pat Crow Memorial Plaza: 0.4 mi
- The Old Bakery Bicentennial Square: 0.4 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 3.2 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 4.0 mi
- Congress Avenue Rain Garden: 0.3 mi
- Brazos Bluff: 0.4 mi
- Explorers Garden: 0.4 mi
- Luci and Ian's Family Hill Country Garden: 0.6 mi
- Lady Bird Johnson Texas Capitol Flower Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Texas Toy Museum and Arcade: 0.1 mi
- The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center on Congress Avenue;The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center: 0.2 mi
- O. Henry Museum: 0.2 mi
- Museum of the Weird: 0.2 mi
- Joseph And Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum: 0.3 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 4.1 mi
- Mount Larson: 4.2 mi
- Mount Barker: 4.4 mi
- Mount Lucas: 4.7 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 5.7 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 0.5 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 0.6 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 0.6 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 1.0 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 1.5 mi
- Twin Falls: 4.4 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 4.8 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 5.3 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 5.6 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 5.8 mi
- Eliza Spring: 1.6 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 1.9 mi
- Seiders Spring: 2.7 mi
- Shady Spring: 9.6 mi
- Queen's Bath: 14.9 mi
- New Sweden: 16.8 mi
- McDuff: 17.0 mi
- Goforth: 17.2 mi
- Lytton Springs: 19.7 mi
- Palm Valley: 20.4 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Seismic Wall: 3.7 mi
- Fern Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 20.7 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 5.1 mi
- Stone picnic table: 5.6 mi
- The Learning Tree: 7.6 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mexic-Arte Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 277° | 433 m | 20.6 mi |
| Gainor Mountain | WSW 254° | 429 m | 24.7 mi |
| Lone Man Mountain | WSW 238° | 416 m | 24.4 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 255° | 406 m | 20.5 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 277° | 364 m | 15.0 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WNW 287° | 360 m | 14.5 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 247° | 353 m | 13.7 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 326° | 346 m | 23.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:31 | 20:01 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 59 | 51 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin 6S, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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- Austin · 0 mi
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