Find an Exhibit in a Texas Museum

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Abilene

The Grace Museum

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, Apr 12-Jun 26, 2008
Katrina: The Color of Loss, Photography by Dan Burkholder, Apr 10-Jun 28, 2008

Albany

The Old Jail Art Center:

Coda: Reilly Nail’s Last Chapter, Jan 19-May 25, 2008.

Austin

Austin Children’s Museum

Play It By Ear, Jan 19 - Sep 20, 2008.

Austin Museum of Art (Downtown):

New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch, Feb 16-May 11, 2008.

Austin Museum of Art (Laguna Gloria)

Laguna Gloria-Grounded, Oct 3, 2007-Sep 27, 2009.

Blanton Museum of Art

America/Americas, ongoing; European Paintings from the Permanent Collection, ongoing; Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, ongoing
The University of Texas Faculty Triennial, Apr 22- Jun 8, 2008.
The Language of Prints, Apr 22-Aug 17, 2008;
Exquisite Visions of Japan: Prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jul 1-Aug 24, 2008;
Refiguring the 1960s: The Park Place Gallery, New York 1963-67, Sep 23, 2008-Jan 18, 2009;
The New York Graphic Workshop, Sep 23, 2008-Jan 18, 2009.

Capitol Visitors Center:

Before Freedom: Texas Slave Narratives, Feb 1 - Nov 2, 2008

LBJ Library and Museum:

Bills, Bills, Bills: Lyndon Johnson as Senate Majority Leader, Sep 1, 2007-May 26, 2008.

Ransom Center Galleries

On the Road with the Beats, Feb 5-Aug 3, 2008;
Inside El Salvador, Apr 17-Aug 3, 2008.
The Mystique of the Archive, Sep 2, 2008-Jan 4, 2009;
A Cabinet of Drawings: Selections from Across the Collections, Sep 2, 2008-Jan 4, 2009.

Texas Memorial Museum

Natural Wonders: Treasures of the TMM, ongoing.

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Beaumont

Texas Energy Museum:

Unlocking the Energy of Oil, ongoing.

Belton

Bell County Museum

Bell County in Miniature: The C.O. Buckellew Collection, ongoing
Will You Be Mine? A Guide to Weddings and Other Romantic Traditions, Feb 14-Jul 26, 2008.

Big Spring

Hangar 25 Air Museum

SMGT Robert Underwood: Collection of Military Service, B-52 Exhibit, ongoing

Bryan

Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

Cotton Farming of the Brazos Valley, ongoing:
Ice Age Animals of the Brazos Valley, ongoing.

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Canyon

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

A Kiowa’s Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Ft. Marion, Mar 29-May, 26, 2008;
Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention, May 24-Sep 1, 2008.
No Ordinary Lives, through May 31, 2008;
The Johnie Grifin Collection, Apr 5—Oct 18, 2008;
Olive Vandruff: 100 at 100, Apr 12 – Jun 15, 2008;
Studer and Johnston: Treasures of the Panhandle, Sep 29, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009;
75th Anniversary Exhibit, Sep 27, 2008 - February 2009;
Don Ray Retrospective, Oct 11, 2008 – Feb 17, 2009.

Clifton

Bosque Memorial Museum

Rockabye Baby In the Treetop ongoing

College Station

The George Bush Library & Museum:

Born to Play Ball, Mar 1-Jul 20, 2008;
From the Moon and Beyond: The 50th Anniversary of NASA, Sep19, 2008-Aug 23, 2009.

MSC Forsyth Center Galleries

Objects from the American Cut Glass Association (ACGA) Collection, ongoing

Colorado City

The Heart of West Texas Museum

Chief Lone Wolf Exhibit, opens June 24

Corpus Christi

Art Museum of South Texas:

The Mary Grace and Frank Horlock Collection of American Western Art, Jan 10-Dec 31, 2008;
New American Talent: The 22nd Exhibition, March 7-May 18.

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Dallas

African American Museum

The Souls of Black Folk, ongoing

The Crow Collection of Asian Art:

The CARU Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part III, Feb16 – Jun 15, 2008;
Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia, Apr19 – Jun 22, 2008;
Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change, May 17 – Sep 28, 2008;
Texas Collects Asia: China, Jul 12 – Sep 28, 2008.

Dallas Museum of Art

Julian Onderdonk: Bluebonnets and Beyond, March 23–July 20, 2008.

Meadows Museum, SMU:

Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo, Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona Art Museum, Mar 22- Jun 22, 2008.

Museum of Nature & Science(Formerly Dallas Museum of Natural History & The Science):

The Human Geonome: Reading the Book of Life, opens Jan 28, 2006.
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm, ongoing.

Pollock Gallery, SMU:

Master of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition, Apr 7-Apr 19, 2008;
Bachelor of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition, May 5-May 17, 2008.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza:

Filming Kennedy: Home Movies from Dallas, through Oct 19, 2008

Denton

Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum

Historic African American Families of Denton County, ongoing
Historic Hispanic Families of Denton County, ongoing.

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El Paso

The Centennial Museum on the University of Texas El Paso

Bracero Memories/Memorias de los Braceros, Feb 7-Jun 21, 2008.

El Paso Museum of History

El Paso A to Z, ongoing;
The Changing Pass, ongoing.

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Fort Hood

1st Cavalry Division Museum

War on Terror, opens Jan 27, 2006.

Fort Worth

Amon Carter Museum

100 Years of Autochrome, Aug 18, 2007–Jul 27, 2008;
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism; Jun 14–Aug 24, 2008.
Fort Worth Landmarks in the 1950s: Watercolors by Bror Utter, Mar 8–Jun 15, 2008.

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

Kid Stuff: Lone Star Dinosaurs, (ongoing)
Seeing, through Spring 2008.
Dinosaur Roundup, Jun 7-Sep 27, 2008;
KIDSPACE(r), through Sep 27, 2008;
Hands On Studio, through Sep 27, 2008.

The Impressionists:

Master Paintings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Jun 29-Nov 2, 2008

Texas Civil War Museum:

Ray Richey Collection, ongoing; Judy Richey Victorian Dress Collection, ongoing.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth:

Martin Puryear, Feb 24-May 18, 2008;
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Jul 5-Oct 19, 2008.

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Galveston

Galveston Arts Center

Nestor Topchy: Pysanky … Apr 12-May 18, 2008;
Lisa Qualls: Breaking Ground, Apr 12-May 18, 2008;
Julia Barello: Profusion + Multiplicity, Apr 12-May 18, 2008.

Georgetown

Williamson County Historical Museum:

WCHM Mural Exhibit, ongoing.

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Hillsboro

Texas Heritage Museum (Hillsboro)

The Legacy of the Texas Confederate Museum, ongoing

Houston

Blaffer Gallery

The Art Museum of the University of Houston: Charles "Teenie" Harris: Rhapsody in Black and White, May 10 - Aug 2, 2008; 2008 Houston Area Exhibition,
May 10 - Aug 2, 2008

The Heritage Society

“It is in service that you will grow the greatest” Jesse Jones: City Builder and Public Servant, Feb 12-May 25, 2008.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft:

CraftTexas, May 24-Aug 17, 2008

John P. McGovern Museum of Health

& Medical Science

Amazing Body Pavilion, ongoing.
By You City, opened Oct 2, 2004

Lawndale Art Center:

what we want is too late: Danny Kerschen, Lynne McCabe,
Teresa O’Connor, May 9 – June 14, 2008;
Drawing in Space: Curated by J Hill, May 9 – June 14, 2008;
3 Months and 90 Days: Catherine Colangelo, May 9 – June 14, 2008;
The Suburbs of the Emerald City: Joshua Smith, May 9 – June 14, 2008.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption, through June 22, 2008. Stories from an Eruption: Pompeii, Ercolano, Optolontis, Feb 2008-Jul 2008;
From Corot to Monet, Artists in the Forest of Fontainebleau in the Nineteenth Century, Jul 13, 2008-Oct 19, 2008
Duncan Phyfe: Master Craftsman of the Empire City, Apr 2009-Jul 2009
Ancient Arts of Vietnam, Summer 2009.

The Menil Collection

The Poetry of Process: A Celebration of Drawing, Feb 15-May 25, 2008;
Max Neuhaus:Circumscription Drawings, May 4-Aug 10, 2008;
Max Neuhaus: A New Sound Work, May 4-Aug 10, 2008;
Sterne & Steinberg: Critics Within, May 23-Aug 17, 2008;
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Jun 27-Sep 21, 2008; Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection, Aug 15, 2008-Mar 1, 2009;
Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie, Oct 23, 2008-Feb 15, 2009.

Texas Prison Museum:

Last Statement, opens Feb 2, 2007.

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La Porte

San Jacinto Museum of History:

Developing Houston: Photographic Treasures from the Cecil Thomson Collection, May 24, 2008 – May 2009.

Lubbock

National Ranching Heritage Center

Ranches Preserved: Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation of West Texas, opens Jul 28, 2006.

Lufkin

The Museum of East Texas:

Pots and Process: The Works of David Hendley with Documentary Photographs by R.P. Washburne, through May 28, 2008.

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Marshall

The Michelson Museum of Art:

Through the Lens of Willis F. Lee, Mar 25-Jun 15, 2008
Hoover Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit, Jun 30-Aug 30, 2008.

McAllen

International Museum of Art & Science:

ICONS: Stained Glass, opened Sep 8, 2006, ongoing

McKinney

Collin County Historical Society

Collin County in the Civil War, opens Jan 14, 2007
Pioneers in Collin County, opens May 6;

North Texas History Center:

Pioneering, opens Jul 2007
The Reluctant Confederates, opens Jan 2008.

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Orange

Stark Museum of Art

The Luckless Hunter
by W. H. Dunton

The American Frontier Revisited, ongoing

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Port Arthur

Museum of the Gulf Coast:.

Destination Anywhere: How We Travel, Mar 15-Jun 8, 2008.

Port Isabel

Museums of Port Isabel

The Masonic Lodge of Texas, through Dec 30, 2008;

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San Angelo

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

17th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Apr 18 – Jun 22, 2008;
George Ohr Rising: The Emergence of an American Master, Apr 18-Jun 22, 2008.

San Antonio

Southwest School of Art and Craft:

All School Exhibition 2008, Apr 11-Jun 15, 2008;
Cross Pollinate, Apr 11-Jun 15, 2008;
Connie Lowe and Beverly Penn, Jun 26-Aug 17, 2008.

San Marcos

The Wittliff Collections:

Lonesome Dove Revisited, ongoing;
The Rivers of Texas, Feb 1-Jul 31, 2008;
The Molly Ivins Library, through Jul 7, 2008.

Snyder

Scurry County Museum:

Rags to Riches: Handcrafted Rugs, opened January 10
The Art of Roxanne Boardman, opens Jun 19

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Tyler

Tyler Museum of Art

Father & Son III: Charles & Karl Umlauf, April 13-May 25

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Waco

Dr Pepper Museum & Free Enterprise Institute:

Cadbury Schweppes: Behind the Label, Nov 17, 2007-May 2008.

Washington

Star of the Republic Museum:

Audubon’s Creations: His Texas Legacy, through Aug 31, 2008.

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