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The Bullock Texas State History Museum (often referred to as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum or Bullock Museum) is a history museum in Austin, Texas.The museum, located a few blocks north of the Texas State Capitol at 1800 North Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, is dedicated to interpreting the continually unfolding "Story of Texas" to the broadest possible audience through ...
The Bullock Texas State History Museum's newest exhibit is part history, part popular art. Its Texas lowriding exhibit, "Carros y Cultura," was unveiled this month and will run until Sept. 2. It ...
Where: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 1800 Congress Ave. Parking: Given the recently reconfigured Capitol Mall, the best parking is found below the museum. The entrance to that garage is ...
The Texas State History Museum in Austin is named for Bullock, who as lieutenant governor pushed for establishment of the facility. Photo taken in 2010. The Bob Bullock Expressway in Laredo, Texas is an outlying segment of Interstate 35.
Goddess of Liberty is a sculpture by Elijah E. Myers, installed atop the Texas State Capitol dome, in Austin, Texas, United States. [1] The original statue was erected in February 1888. It was replaced by a replica on June 14, 1986, and the original was restored and relocated to the Bullock Texas State History Museum. [2]
Austin hosts several sizable history and literary museums — LBJ Presidential Library, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Harry Ransom Center, Briscoe Center for American History, Capitol ...
A program on the Craft of Writing: Rewriting History on Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth [14] with Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson [15] [16] co-sponsored by Writers' League of Texas with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, included the development of the Alamo's mythos during the Jim Crow era.
Later, Winegarten oversaw the addition of women to the exhibits in the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin. Winegarten twice won the Liz Carpenter Award, for her books Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph, and Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators 1923–1999 (with Nancy Baker Jones). The Liz Carpenter Award is given ...