A trip to Texas would not be complete without visits to the diverse
and interesting museums around the state. Museums tell the story of Texas,
display our art and culture, and offer learning opportunities for visitors
of all ages.
This listing updated 8/27/2008
Please be patient as our photos load. ( Sorted by City)
A |
Abilene |
| The Grace Museum |
Zero to 60, Jun 12-Sep 7,
2008
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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.
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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. |
B |
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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C |
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.
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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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D |
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.
|
E |
El Paso
|
El Paso Museum of History
|
El Paso A to Z, ongoing;
The Changing Pass, ongoing.
|
F |
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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G |
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.
|
H |
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.
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| 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. |
I |
Irving
|
Irving Arts Center: |
The Blues/Jazz Experience: Paintings
by Ernie Benton & Daggi Wallace, Apr
5-Sep 21, 2008. |
J |
K |
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. |
L |
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 |
M |
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.
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The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary:
|
Native Texas Butterflies, Jul
14 - Sep 28, 2008 |
N |
O |
Orange |
Stark Museum of Art
The Luckless Hunter
by W. H. Dunton |
The American Frontier Revisited, ongoing
|
P |
Port Isabel |
Museums of Port Isabel |
The Masonic Lodge of Texas, through
Dec 30, 2008;
|
Q |
R |
Rockport |
Texas Maritime Museum: |
OUT on the Water, through
Aug 31, 2008. |
S |
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.
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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
|
T |
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. |
U |
V |
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.
|
W |
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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