Culture / Performing Arts
Youth Naturalization ceremony in austin - 05/20/24
The NCHM hosted a USCIS naturalization ceremony for new youth citizens. Dr. Karen Pope explains the connection.
gospel on the lawn at the nchm - 02/24/24
The NCHM hosts Christopher D. Spivey & Co for a musical performance celebrating the roots of gospel music in Black history and culture.
Catch The Watchmaker’s Song at the Neill-Cochran House Museum - 12/12/23
An interactive and culturally inclusive re-imagining of The Nutcracker, is back for its sixth season at the Neil- Cochran House Museum.
10 Best Museums in Austin to Visit and Explore - 12/09/23
Through historically furnished spaces and multiple rotating art and history exhibitions, the NCHM conveys the history of Austin and Texas from the city’s founding in 1839 until 1930.
Heritage Preservation Grant aimed at preserving historic Austin sites - 08/02/23
The City of Austin grant program awarded $2.7 million to historic sites in Austin last year. This year’s recipients include the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Your guide to austin holiday arts like the nutcracker and a christmas carol - 11/29/22
Ventana Ballet puts a jazzy and interactive twist on "The Nutcracker" with its inimitable "The Watchmaker's Song" at the Neill-Cochran House Museum on Dec. 8-17.
Meet Rowena Dasch of the Neill-Cochran House Museum - 12/07/21
“[O]ver the past five years, we have welcomed more than 30,000 people to our site and have broadened our audience well beyond educated history buffs (though we do love educated history buffs!).”
austin museums starting to reopen more than a month after getting the go-ahead - 06/14/20
"Being able to reopen and to share these stories and be a place where conversation can happen and hopefully civil discourse," said NCHM director Rowena Dasch.”
Meet Austin’s Memory Keeper - 11/01/19
Neill-Cochran House Museum director, Rowena Houghton Dasch, reflects on sharing the stories of Austin’s history and helming a 60-year-old startup.
Blasts from the Past: Old Austin Homes Leave Clues for Surviving our Summers - 07/30/19
“It was less humid in those days,” says native Austinite Mary Cochran Bohls, 92, “before they put in the lakes.”
She's 92 and Grew Up in What's Now an Austin Museum - 07/19/19
When she was a child, did Mary Cochran Bohls, 92, slide down the polished banister of the Neill-Cochran House, now an Austin museum, while growing up in the handsome 1856 home?
Joy and Delight at Austin's Historic Neill-Cochran House Museum - 04/04/19
This exquisitely wrought world, that brings both the familiar and the exotic, is on display now through April 28 at another Austin gem, the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Neill-Cochran House Museum Keeps History Alive in Changing Times - 02/25/19
Exhibits of antiques, artwork, and folk crafts tell stories of Texas in one of Austin’s oldest buildings, an 1856 house
A House Built on History: Neill-Cochran House Museum Offers a Glimpse into Austin's Past - 10/01/18
Neill-Cochran House Museum offers a glimpse into Austin’s past.
In the House: Neill-Cochran House Museum Hosts 2017 Abner Cook Award Reception to Honor Joe Pinnelli - 05/05/17
The Neill-Cochran House Museum recently hosted a benefit cocktail reception in the Museum’s Centennial Garden to honor Austin builder, contractor, and historic preservationist Joe Pinnelli with the Abner Cook Award.