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Exhibits Galleries
The Museum’s study of regional home and family life is presented in three galleries, each centered by a hearth, the traditional feature around which home life revolves.
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Shelter, foodways, clothing, art and craft, transportation, and leisure are topics discussed in exhibits of artifacts, graphics, and text.
1st Peoples Gallery ~ 300 years of Native American life
Settler’s Gallery ~ 1840-1900 frontier period
20th Century Gallery ~ town life and women’s emancipation
CHANGING EXHIBITS
Temporary and traveling exhibits enhance the visitor’s experience. Short-term loans from other institutions or private collectors and objects from the Museum’s permanent collection offer additional enrichment opportunities.
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TRAVELING EXHIBITS
he Museum created two traveling exhibits with the support of granting agencies. These were opportunities for staff to conduct oral history interviews, scholarly research, and to design formats for transmitting new knowledge to general audiences
“The Power of Women’s Hands” with the Texas Council for Humanities
Study of at-home women and their hands-on contributions to family life.
Eight framed panels.
The Single Schoolmarm”
Study of the willing dedication of unmarried school teachers.
Two framed panels.
A third traveling exhibit is available through the Museum.
“Blades in the Sky” courtesy T. Lindsay Baker
Photographic essay on windmill men of the desert southwest.
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