Find an Exhibit in a Texas Museum

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Abilene

The Grace Museum

Zero to 60, Jun 12-Sep 7, 2008

Albany

The Old Jail Art Center:

Things Seen Anew: The Sculpture of J. C. Pace, III, Jun 7-Sep 14, 2008

Alpine

Museum of the Big Bend:

TRACKS ACROSS TEXAS: Railroad maps from the Marty Davis Collection, May 23-Aug 31, 2008.

Arlington

Arlington Museum of Art:

David Keens: Texas Artist of the Year, Jul 12 - Sep 14, 2008
Quilt Mania, Sep 27 - Dec 13, 2008.

Austin

Austin Children’s Museum

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

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum:

Dallas: Power $ Passion on Primetime TV, May 31-Sep 14, 2008.

Capitol Visitors Center:

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

George Washington Carver Museum:

Light and Shadows: Photographs of Calvin Littlejohn, Jun 5-Aug 31, 2008.

LBJ Library and Museum:

To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s, Aug 27, 2008 - Jul 20, 2009.

Ransom Center Galleries

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
Edward S. Curtis: Plains Indians, Aug 16, 2008 – Oct 18, 2008.
Visioning Beauty: An Ell K, Mewhinney Retrospective, Nov 1, 2008-Jan 31, 2009.

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.
Two Views of Indigenous Bolivia, Jun 19-Sep 1, 2008.

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Canyon

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention, May 24-Sep 1, 2008.
The Johnie Grifin Collection, Apr 5—Oct 18, 2008;
Studer and Johnston: Treasures of the Panhandle, Sep 29, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009;
75 Years of Your Museum, Sep 27, 2008 - February 2009;
Don Ray Retrospective, Oct 11, 2008 – Feb 17, 2009.
The Santa Fe Collection, Oct 18, 2008 – Jan 25, 2009.

Clifton

Bosque Memorial Museum

Rockabye Baby In the Treetop ongoing

College Station

The George Bush Library & Museum:

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;
Revealing Character: Robb Kendrick’s Texas Tintypes, Jun 6-Sep 14, 2008;

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Dallas

African American Museum

The Souls of Black Folk, ongoing

The Crow Collection of Asian Art:

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

The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, Jun 1–Sep 14, 2008;
Materials & Meanings in the Center for Creative Connections, May 3, 2008–Summer 2009;

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.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza:

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

The Women’s Museum:

Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion, Nov 6, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009.

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

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

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:

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Jul 5-Oct 19, 2008.
Hubbard/Birchler: No Room to Answer, Sep 14, 2008-Jan 4, 2009.

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Georgetown

Williamson County Historical Museum:

WCHM Mural Exhibit, ongoing.

Graham

Old Post Office Museum and Art Center

Young County Native American Heritage, Aug 1-31, 2008.

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Hillsboro

Texas Heritage Museum (Hillsboro)

The Legacy of the Texas Confederate Museum, ongoing

Houston

Blaffer Gallery

Damaged Romanticism; A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Sep 13-Nov 15, 2008.

The Heritage Society

Interwoven Traditions: The Spiritual Journey from African to African American, Jun 10 - Sep 28, 2008

Holocaust Museum Houston:

Escaping Their Boundaries: The Children of Theresienstadt,
Feb 22-Sep 28, 2008;
A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk, Oct 20-Feb 8, 2009.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft:

Warren Makenzie: Legacy of an American Potter, Aug 30-Nov 30, 2008;
Inspired: Students of Warren MacKenzie, Aug 30-Nov 30, 2008.

Houston Museum of Natural Science:

Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius, Mar 7 – Sep 14, 2008;
Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia, Aug 31, 2007-Sep 1, 2008;
Antique Roses: Pink Ladies and Crimson Gents, May 17-Sep 1, 2008.

John P. McGovern Museum of Health

& Medical Science

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

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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

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.

Rice University Art Gallery:

Mark Fox: Dust, May 29-Aug 29, 2008.

Huntsville

Texas Prison Museum:

Last Statement, opened Feb 2, 2007.

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Irving

Irving Arts Center:

The Blues/Jazz Experience: Paintings by Ernie Benton & Daggi Wallace, Apr 5-Sep 21, 2008.

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Kerrville

Museum of Western Art

Taos Artists Society Art Collection and Exhibit, Jul 22 – Sep 28, 2008

Kingsville

John E. Conner Museum:

Jimmy Pena, Corpus Christ Artist (Drawing & Painting), Aug 11- Sep 8, 2008.

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La Porte

San Jacinto Museum of History

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

Longview

Longview Museum of Fine Arts

Then and Now, Sep 13 - Oct 22, 2008.

Lubbock

Museum of Texas Tech University:

Anthony Quinn: A Lifetime of Collecting and Creating Art, Jun 22-Nov 30, 2008.

National Ranching Heritage Center

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

Lufkin

The Museum of East Texas

Rivers and Back Woods, through September 2008

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Marshall

The Michelson Museum of Art:

Hoover Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit, Jun 30-Aug 30, 2008.

McAllen

International Museum of Art & Science:

ICONS: Stained Glass, 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:

The Reluctant Confederates, opened Jan 2008.

The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary:

Native Texas Butterflies, Jul 14 - Sep 28, 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 Isabel

Museums of Port Isabel

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

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Rockport

Texas Maritime Museum:

OUT on the Water, through Aug 31, 2008.

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San Angelo

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts:

Transitions and Continuations: ASU Faculty Exhibition 2008, Jul 10-Aug 31, 2008;
Edward R. Broida – A Collector on the Edge, Jul 10-Aug 31, 2008;
Nagas Installation, Jul 10-Aug 31, 2008.

San Antonio

Art Pace, San Antonio:

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WindowWorks: Ann-Michele Morales, Jun 12-Sep 14, 2008; WindowWorks: Karen Mahaffy, Sep 18-Nov 30, 2008.

The McNay Art Museum:

Jean-Paul Viguier: Cool Models/Maquettes Froides, Jun 7-Oct 5, 2008;
Architecture in Print,
Jun 7-Oct 5, 2008;

San Antonio Museum of Art:

The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library, Jun 21-Aug 31, 2008

Southwest School of Art and Craft:

Veronica Riedel: The Making of a Mestiza, Aug 28-Oct 19, 2008
Travis Townsend: Anxious Accumulations, Oct 30, 2008-Jan 11, 2009
Holly Hanessian: The Poetry of Space, Oct 30, 2008-Jan 11, 2009.

The Witte Museum:

The Genius of Leonardo: Machines in Motion, Jun 21-Sep 7, 2008;
Fiesta Dances: Ballets, Polkas and Bailes, through Sep 1, 2008

San Marcos

The Wittliff Collections:

Lonesome Dove Revisited, ongoing;

Snyder

Scurry County Museum:

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

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Texarkana

Texarkana Museums System:

Main Treasures: A Celebration of Downtown, through August 2008;
The Mystery of the Mayan Medallion, May 30-Aug 30, 2008.

Tyler

Tyler Museum of Art

Early Texas Art: Selections from the Hock Shop Collection, Jul 27–Oct 26, 2008;
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Jun 8, 2008–Jan 4, 2009.

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Victoria

Victoria Regional Museum Association

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Ceramics, Aug 8- Sept 21, 2008;
Jesse Lott Retrospective, Nov 20, 2008- Jan 25, 2009.

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Waco

Martin Museum of Art:

Selections from the Permanent Collection, opens on June 10, 2008.

Mayborn Museum Complex:

National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure, Jun 1-Sep 7, 2008.

Washington

Star of the Republic Museum:

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

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