In the Galleries

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

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

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

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

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

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 is open at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. We welcome you to...

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

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

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

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

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