Austin Museum of Popular Culture

[1] It was born from a community art collective known as the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture which had coalesced in 2004 around the private files of Henry Gonzalez.

Eventually the purpose of AusPop was to preserve the legacy of Austin's counterculture and popular arts through exhibitions, collection, and scholarship.

An extensive 1997 review of the Armadillo Art Squad named many of its artists and cartoonists (often one and the same), including Gilbert Shelton, Jim Franklin, Guy Juke, Kerry Awn, Michael E. Arth [de; es; fr; ja; zh], Ken Featherston, Henry Gonzales, Danny Garrett, Sam Yeates, Micael Priest, Gary McIlhenny, and Jack Jaxon.

AusPop's outdoor memorial, "Wall of Fame", as Austin humorist John Kelso calls it, has photos of over 150 people.

Subsequently the name changed back to South Austin Museum of Popular Culture.