Accessibility

Safe spaces and helpful staff make for a great visit.

The Bullock Texas State History Museum welcomes all visitors to a comfortable, safe, and accessible space.

From the underground parking garage to the wide-open Lone Star Plaza, the Museum offers easily accessible routes and courteous staff ready to help. Exhibitions feature open captioning and/or written transcripts to enhance our stories. Rear Window® and descriptive listening devices are available for all Museum-produced films. If you have special needs or requests at any point in your visit, please talk with a Visitor Services staff member. 

English and Spanish Gallery Guides are available to help guide you through your visit. The Bullock Museum Texas History Galleries are fully bilingual in Spanish and English.

The Bullock Museum's underground parking garage is a convenient and accessible parking option to access the Museum, the University of Texas campus, the Capitol Complex, the Blanton Museum, and anywhere else you need to go downtown. Learn more about parking and directions.

Elevators and Flooring

Elevators connect the parking garage to the Museum's ground floor entrance on the Lone Star Plaza. Doors are push-button activated. 

All exhibition and theater lobby areas are accessible by both elevators and stairs. Wheelchair accessibility to the IMAX® Theatre is from the second floor. For assistance with doors, please speak to a host in the theater lobby.

Strollers and walkers move easily in the exhibition galleries. However, we do urge you to use caution in the second and third floor immersive environment areas. These areas are recreated environments and have textured floor surfaces.

Wheelchairs and Service Animals

Wheelchairs for your museum visit are available for check-out at the information desk and at the ticket counter in the Museum's first floor lobby. There is no rental fee, but we do ask that you leave a valid photo ID or license until you return the wheelchair at the end of your visit.

Leashed or harnessed service animals are welcome in the Museum.

Restrooms

Accessible restrooms are located on each floor of the Museum. A family restroom is located off the first floor lobby. All restrooms are equipped with changing tables and wheelchair-accessible stalls and sinks.

Water Fountains

Accessible water fountains are located throughout the Museum near the restrooms.

Exhibitions and Theaters

Theaters, demonstration and program spaces, and exhibition galleries are all wheelchair accessible. Exhibition areas with audiovisual programs have open captioning or transcripts nearby.

IMAX® Theatre and Texas Spirit Theater

The IMAX® Theatre and the Texas Spirit Theater are both accessible to wheelchairs from the second floor.

Dolby® CaptiView captioning and Dolby® Fidelio audio assistance devices may be available on some IMAX® Theatre films. Please check with Bullock Museum staff for availability.

  • Dolby Fidelio is a wireless headphone system that delivers audio narration.
  • Dolby CaptiView is a personal in-theatre closed captioning system.

Rear Window® captioning and audio enhancement is available for The Star of Destiny and Shipwrecked films in the Texas Spirit Theater, as well as some films in the IMAX® Theatre. Visitors may request captioning or listening devices at theater entrances. 

The Texas Spirit Theater offers a multi-sensory experience and contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect visitors with photosensitive epilepsy or other photo sensitivities.

Accessible Design

The Bullock Museum strives to produce programs and exhibitions accessible to all visitors using principles of Universal Design and accessibility standards developed by the Smithsonian Institution. The Museum meets or exceeds standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Museum received the first commendation for accessible design and construction from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), in conjunction with the Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities (GCPD).

Website Accessibility Aids:  Plug-ins and File Viewers

All applets, plug-ins, or applications required in order to view content on our webpages can be downloaded from the list of links below.  The Bullock Museum does not endorse any of these products; they are listed below for the convenience of our users.  

  • Adobe Reader - Adobe Acrobat can be used to read PDF files.  Download Adobe Reader
    Currently, our website contains documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format. Most PDF files will be accessible to those who use assistive technology such as screen readers. Some legacy or software-created PDF files may not be accessible. If you are experiencing difficulty reading any PDF files, please contact the Museum at (512) 936-8746 or contactus@thestoryoftexas.com, and we will be happy to send you an alternate version.
  • Unzip Utility - WinZip can be used to extract files from compressed .zip documents. Download WinZip