News/Announcements
- Stark Center Construction Update! New Pictures of the Interior Space Before the Build-out Begins
- Recent Gifts - 2nd Weider Gift Officially Recognized!
- Todds Receive Heidenstam Lifetime Achievement Award
- Terry and Jan Todd Book Series Established
- Longhorn Legacy: 100 Years of Football Programs
Welcome To:
The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
The Department of Kinesiology & Health Education
The College of Education
An Academic Research Center Housing The Todd-McLean Physical Culture Collection: A Unique Collection of Archival Materials Relating to Physical Fitness, Golf and other Competitive Sports, Weight Training, Bodybuilding, Conditioning for Sports, Physical Education, Health, Alternative Medicine, and Nutrition.
Quick Facts:
The H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports is scheduled to open on the campus at The University of Texas in Austin in the spring of 2009. It will be located on the second level of the building being constructed at the north end of Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium (shown above). The Center will occupy 27,500 square feet of floor space, and will be divided into:
- The Joe and Betty Weider Museum of Physical Culture—permanent and rotating exhibits related to the history of physical fitness, weight training, and health promotion;
- The Sports Gallery—featuring the Ben Crenshaw Golf Collection and including permanent and rotating exhibits related to the role of sports in society and the role of physical fitness and sports at UT;
- The Reading Room—a large and comfortable room where students, faculty, and visitors can browse through—as well as sit and read—current books and magazines in the areas of physical culture and sports;
- The Center Archives—containing the Todd-McLean Physical Culture Collection as well as books and materials related to general sports. Although our collection has focused on physical culture, it contains more than 4000 books about competitive sports, hundreds of rare photographs about athletics, and thousands of magazines about sports—including full runs of such magazines as Sports Illustrated. Our holdings also include the Edmund Hoffman Golf Collection and an excellent collection of rare books about hunting and fishing published during the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries;
- The Lobby Gallery—permanent and rotating exhibits of art, photography, and artifacts in the areas of sports and physical culture. This gallery will also be used for receptions and other events related to the Center;
- Other Spaces—include a large conference/seminar room, staff offices, a storage area for rare items, a controlled research area where rare books and photographs can be examined, a cataloguing and processing room, and additional storage areas for books, sports artifacts, and physical culture materials.
Please read the Director’s Message for full details about the new facility.
