Opening Friday, October 8, 2021, Degrees of Fitness / Sporting Bodies is a new exhibit at The Stark Center, featuring...
In the Galleries

Stark Center Lobby
The Stark Center Lobby is an open hall welcoming visitors and orienting them to the facility and its collections. An...

Stark Center Reading Room
The Reading Room of the Stark Center library is filled with large, comfortable chairs as only a prodigious academic and...

Joe & Betty Weider Museum
Joe Weider was a visionary and a true believer, and through his entire adult life he has done his level...

He Liked Big Things
Terry Todd was a man of many talents and grand visions. As a fifth-generation Texan he loved his family; Austin,...

Coaching Greatness
In 1956, the Texas Longhorn football team recorded one win and nine losses, its worst ever season. That December, Darrell...

Teresa Lozano Long Art Gallery
The Teresa Lozano Long Gallery is the permanent display of fine art pieces from The Stark Center’s collections, illustrating the...

1914: A Perfect Season
1914: A Perfect Season is open at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. We welcome you to...

Muscle Beach
The pioneers of what came to be known as Muscle Beach – people like Les and Pudgy Stockton, Russ Saunders,...

Strong Men, Strong Women
The golden age of professional strength performers – both men and women – lasted from approximately 1890 to 1930. A...

Golf and the Legacy of Harvey Penick
Sports Illustrated described Harvey Penick as “golf’s Socrates – the game’s greatest teacher and philosopher.” Tall praise, yet the record...

The Golden Age of American Boxing
In 1956, the Albert Davis Collection of Theater Artifacts was donated to the University of Texas at Austin. New York...

Wrestling to Rasslin’
At the turn of the twentieth century – before Wrestlemania, Monday Night Raw, and the creative mind of Vince McMahon...