Brush Square Museums Foundation

Pictures taken by staff at AARC

The 2026 Pun-Off is moving to a rain location for all events! Both Friday and Saturday have high rain probabilities, so we are moving indoors to the Asian American Resource Center, 8401 Cameron Road, 78754. More at https://www.punoff.com , , ,

O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships | Austin, TX The Grand Daddy of all pun competitions is in Texas, in Austin, naturally. Is it the best? Yes. Is it the oldest? Definitely. Is it the funniest? Easily. The O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships have been around for 45 jears! it’s hard to imagine one more refined. For Texans, anyway.

PUNNING FOR GOLD!
Come to the O.Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships. Saturday, May 9th, 10 am - 5:30 pm, in Brush Square, 409 E. 5th Street! FREE! Share your gold with the 49ers! Thank our generous auction and event sponsors.

It’s a pun-raising event too. We kneed your dough for muse-um wordy causes!

It's official!! We are 1 month away from the 49th Annual O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships!
Get ready to have a fun day of wit and laughter with us on May 9th!

When: Saturday, May 9th
Time: 10AM - 6PM
Where: Brush Square Park, behind the O. Henry Museum, 409 E 5th St., Austin, TX 78701

See you there!

Great comic book for O.Henry stories

"Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?"
- O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief

The Ransom of Red Chief
Sunday March 29, 2026 2 PM CDT
1304 E. Applegate Drive
Austin, Tx 78753

Annual meeting was a success!

Today at 2 pm Ben Yagoda is our guest at our Annual Meeting event. Yesterday he also spoke at the Elkins O. Henry Literary Discussion Group.

Our "Imagining O. Henry on the Streets of New York" with Ben Yagoda at 2 pm this Sunday will be in the beautifully restored 1914 Oakwood Cemetery Chapel. After the event, guests may join a walking tour to visit the grave site of Athol Estes Porter, Will Porter's first wife. Admission is Free. Seating is limited; RSVP requested here https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/annual-meeting-ben-yagoda-rsvp

This is wonderful news! Visit the museums and park one block away for free.

Hi friends!

We are excited to share the news that we now offer FREE parking validations for the Convention Center Parking Garage located on E 5th Street and Red River Street.

Please ask a staff member for your validation before leaving our museums.

We are honored to have guest reader Ben Yagoda, author of Alias O. Henry A Novel, for this story. Everyone is welcome to this free event.