City of Lincoln
Approximately 250,000 people live in the Lincoln college-town and state capitol area. Click on the following links to learn more about this great mid-western city.
Nebraska State Capitol
Constructed between 1922 and 1932 the Nebraska State Capitol building towers 400 feet into the sky and includes four interior courtyards and an observation deck. Thirty-minute tours are offered year-round.
Transportation
- Lincoln Municipal Airport
- Star Tran's intercity bus service
- Amtrak and Greyhound passenger service, daily
- Limousine and taxi cab companies
- Proximity to Interstate 80, a coast-to-coast highway
Historic Haymarket
Great restaurants, unique shopping and fun nightspots located among restored turn-of-the-century warehouses make this area sizzle with activity. The area features antique shops, art galleries, and the first microbrewery in Nebraska.
Arts & Entertainment
Enjoy such activities as miniature golf, bowling alleys, skate parks, raceways, 18-hole golf courses, go-karts, and movies showing the latest Hollywood flicks, plus restaurants and clubs that offer live musical and comedic entertainment.
Lied Center for Performing Arts
The Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility that offers major regional, national and international events designed to attract a statewide audience. Broadway productions that have stopped at The Lied Center during national tours include Les Miserables, Cats, Stomp and Beauty and the Beast.
Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra
Maestro Edward Polochick invites the Lincoln community to an exciting season of world-class symphonic music. From Beethoven to Mozart, McAllister to Sibelius, LSO offers an experience for any music lover.
Pioneers Park & Nature Center
The 1,100-acre park includes splendid examples of public art, an outdoor amphitheater, picnic areas, hiker/biker trails, ponds, a sled run and a golf course. The 668-acre Nature Center features eight miles of walking trails along ponds, through tall-grass prairie, and woodlands. Herds of bison, elk and deer graze in meadows, while wild turkey, hawks and owls occupy natural Nebraska habitat along the Nature Center trails. Public programs for all ages are offered throughout the year. Admission is free.
Trails
With over 128 miles of hard surface and crushed rock trails, you can get just about anywhere you want to go using both on and off street routes.
Lincoln Children's Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Designed especially for children, the Lincoln Children’s Zoo displays more than 300 animals, including African brush-tailed porcupines, golden lion tamarins, squirrel monkeys, scarlet macaws, and the Madagascar hissing Cockroach. The beautiful gardens feature 50 types of trees.
University of Nebraska State Museum - Morrill Hall & Mueller Planetarium
The collections found inside include one of the world's largest collections of mammal fossils which can be used to enhance one’s studies.
Additionally, Elephant Hall offers a remarkable display of modern and fossil elephants along with a mural of Ice Age mammoths. The Galleries of Ancient Life, Plains Indians and Hall of Nebraska Wildlife further interpret Nebraska's natural historic past.
Mueller Planetarium offers Fulldome Digital Shows where you can be immersed in high-tech adventures in a true 360-degree projected, computer-generated virtual environment.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and the Sheldon Sculpture Gardens
For more than 40 years, the Sheldon Museum of Art has provided the Lincoln community and visitors to experience one of the greatest collections of American art in the world, offering as many as 12 exhibitions each year. In the Sculpture Garden, more than 30 monumental sculptures are exhibited year-round and include major works. The Stuart P. Embury American Art Research Library offers more than 10,000 volumes documenting the history of American art.
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is committed to screening a wide diversity of high quality film and video, including non-narrative, experimental films and video; classic foreign and American cinema illustrative of traditional and historical perspectives; documentaries which examine a wide variety of issues of concern; and contemporary foreign cinema of substance.
The Great Plains Art Collection
The mission of the Great Plains Art Museum is to collect, preserve, research, and interpret the art and literature of the Great Plains region and to foster study and through changing exhibits and public programs, enhance appreciation, the history, and creative spirit of the Great Plains of North America.
Hyde Memorial Observatory
Located in Holmes Park, the observatory is open to the public every Saturday year-round. Twenty-minute presentations from this volunteer-operated facility provide a fascinating view of our universe.
