48 Museums to Explore in Texas

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Museums to Explore in Texas

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

This is a nonprofit museum that was in Houston dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

This is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston which was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre

International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame

Located inside the International Bowling Campus in Arlington, Texas. The World Bowling Writers International Bowling Hall of Fame and United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame are at this location, along with many exhibits on both the history of bowling and its current status as the nation's No. 1 participatory sport.

Kimbell Art Museum

An art museum that hosting art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs, and an extensive research library. It is one of the prime attractions in Tarrant county.

Lone Star Flight Museum

This is an aerospace musuem that displays more than 24 historically significant aircraft and many artifacts related to the history of flight. The museum's collection is rare because most of the aircraft are flyable.

Meadows Museum

This is an art museum that was settled on the campus of the southern methodist university. It houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the 10th to the 21st centuries.

Mexic-Arte Museum

Mexic-Arte Museum is a fine arts museum in Austin, Texas. The Mission of the organization is to enrich and educate the community through the presentation and promotion of traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latino art and culture which was founded in 1983.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

A museum of post-World War II art in Fort Worth, TX, which dates back to 1892 and it can show up to 150 works of art and its permanent collection includes more than 3,000 works.

Museum of Biblical Art

This is an art museum that was built in the Biblical theme which holds around 2500 works. It is one of the famous attractions in Dallas county.

Nasher Sculpture Center

A museum in Texas that houses the Patsy and Raymond Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture which was located adjacent to the Dallas museum of art.

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

A great museum that was dedicated to honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and pioneering fortitude. The museum is an educational resource with exhibits, a research library, and rare photography collection. It annually adds Honorees to its Hall of Fame which was established in 1975.

National Museum of Funeral History

This is a museum in houston , Texas that conntains a collection of artefacts and relics that aim to o "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The Museum is home to "the country's largest collection of funeral service artifacts and features renowned exhibits on one of man's oldest cultural customs,"

San Antonio Museum of Art

The San Antonio Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. With a collection spanning 5,000 years of global culture, SAMA is the only encyclopedic museum of fine art in South Texas.

Sid Richardson Museum

This is a historic sundance square in Fort Worth, Texas, and features permanent and special exhibitions of paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as some additional late 19th-century works about the American West.

Space Center Houston

This is a leading space and science center which was located in the US state of Texas. The Johnson Space Center is the home of Mission Control and astronaut training. The center holds over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program. It has a number of significant artifact galleries.

Texas Civil War Museum

The largest civil war museum west of the Mississippi River. It consists of three separate galleries. The first displays a Civil War collection which is primarily military, with special emphasis on flags. The second displays a Victorian dress collection, and the third the United Daughters of the Confederacy Texas Confederate collection.

Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame

A western historical musuem which "honors those men and women who have shown excellence in the business and support of rodeo and the western lifestyle in Texas." The Hall of Fame includes over 125 cowboys and cowgirls, each of whom has a booth to display personal memorabilia. The Hall of Fame was established in 1997 and its original purpose was to recognize excellent horsemen and women.

Texas Memorial Museum

The Texas Memorial Museum, located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. Its focus is on natural history, including paleontology, geology, biology, herpetology, ichthyology, and entomology. At one point, the museum also had exhibits on Texas history, anthropology, geography, and ethnography, but these were relocated to other museum in 2001.

Texas Military Forces Museum

A history museum which was hosted by the Texas Military Department at Camp Mabry and is part of the United States Army Historical Program which has indoor and outdoor galleries featuring 24 major exhibits, which includes over 10,000 artifacts, 36 vehicles, 8 dioramas, 16 macro environments, 16 macro artifacts, and over 50 uniformed mannequins. The library and archive features over 10,000 books and 20,000 photos available for research.

The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria

The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria, formerly known as the AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, is the former home of Clara Driscoll and site of a 1916 Italianate-style villa on the shores of Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. It was the original home of the Austin Museum of Art and still houses some of its collections. The building is now one of two sites of The Contemporary Austin.

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