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African American Museum of Dallas

A new exhibition in Dallas highlights significant African American men who are icons in the country’s historical and cultural landscape. “Men of Change: Power, Triumph, Truth” opens Saturday, June 26 at the African American...

Brazos Valley African American Museum

The Smithsonian’s “Water/Ways” exhibit is now on display at the Brazos Valley African American Museum (BVAAM). The exhibit focuses on the various sources of water, the purpose of water, the environmental and cultural impact water has...

Bullock Texas State History Museum

A new exhibition opening May 19 at the Bullock Texas State History Museum takes visitors on a journey through more than 5,000 years of guitar history, from its origins in the ancient world to today. GUITAR:...

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is introducing an immersive new exhibition that takes inspiration from history, culture, and current events.  The exhibition, “A Beautiful Despair,” will be on view starting Sep. 25 through Jan. 9,...

San Antonio Museum of Art

2021 marks 40 years for the San Antonio Museum of Art and like so many businesses and organizations around the country, last year has not been easy. But SAMA was able to weather the...

Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU

After dealing with a pandemic for over a year now, your perspective on so much around the world may have changed. “Our lenses may change on how we view things… How has context changed?...

Bell County Museum

A brand new exhibit honoring African Americans in WWII is now open to the public at the Bell County Museum in Belton. “I thought this room was fantastic,” Katye Ricketts, who runs the educational...

Houston Museum of Natural Science

The destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous disasters in human history. One of the reasons that it has remained in the public mind for so long is that...

Bullock Texas State History Museum

In recent years, state leaders have turned their attention to the issue of human trafficking. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently proclaimed January to be Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and a a new exhibit at...

The Health Museum

Near the entrance of The Health Museum’s “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” exhibit, volunteers staff a new informational cart distributing materials about the COVID-19 vaccine. Some of the messaging is targeted specifically to...

Seismique

Houston-area art fans and UFO enthusiasts, are you ready for a close encounter of the art kind? A new, interactive museum will soon touch down in Space City. The “technology-fueled experiential” art museum dubbed...

Irving Archives & Museum

A new exhibit in Irving explores the changing roles of women and attitudes about domestic work through a long-neglected piece of clothing — the apron. Called Apron Strings: Ties to the Past, the exhibit at...

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

In 2020, 100 years after the 18th Amendment went into effect, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is featuring a new exhibit highlighting prohibition and the temperance movement as a whole throughout the Texas Panhandle. According...

National Videogame Museum

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people are still facing lockdowns and quarantine, forced to stay inside and keep themselves busy with video games or other forms of media entertainment. Luckily,...

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

When the Holocaust museum in Dallas opens the doors to its new building, visitors will be not only learning about the mass murder of Jews during World War II but also other genocides that...