From January 20–October 24, the Rosenberg Railroad Museum will present the exhibition Railroads and American Sports. This exhibition covers many parts of the United States, but Texas receives particular attention through the stories of multi-sport athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, boxer Jack Johnson, and Houston’s early 20th century No-Tsu-Oh festival. For more information, contact the Rosenberg Railroad Museum.
Events
January 20–October 27, 2024
Exhibition
July 12, 2024–January 5, 2025
Exhibition
From July 12, 2024–January 5, 2025 the Holocaust Museum Houston will present the exhibition Facing Survival. The exhibition features paintings and drawings by artist David Kassan, capturing the poignant stories and portraits of Holocaust survivors. For more information, contact the Holocaust Museum Houston.
July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025
Exhibition
From July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025, The Grace Museum will show the exhibition Full Steam Ahead: The Texas and Pacific Railway. The exhibition highlights the history of the Texas and Pacific Railway in Abilene through several artifacts from The Grace Museum’s permanent collection. For more information, contact The Grace Museum.
September 2-October 26, 2024
Exhibition
Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove exhibition presents classic images taken during filming by Bill Wittliff, renowned photographer, writer, and executive producer (with Suzanne De Passe) of Lonesome Dove. The images, however, are worlds apart from ordinary production stills, depicting an extraordinary union of art, literature, and history. For more information, contact the Old Post Office Museum & Arts Center.
September 9 - October 18, 2024
Exhibition
This exhibition presents photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee and draws from the magnificent archive that he donated to the Briscoe Center for American History just prior to his death in 1986. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the remarkable images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947 through 1977. The exhibition was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information contact the Gaines County Museum.
September 11–October 23, 2024
Exhibition
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino participation in World War II and features historical photographs from the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project archives and contemporary photographs of men and women of the WWII generation by photojournalist Valentino Mauricio. It focuses on individual stories that reveal larger themes such as citizenship and civil rights and features excerpts from the more than five hundred oral history interviews that were part of the project. For more information, contact Brazosport College.
September 13-November 8, 2024
Exhibition
In the last decade, archeologists have made a number of fascinating new discoveries about the way Paleoindians lived and even how they arrived in the land we now call Texas. These first peoples passed on knowledge and traditions through the generations, eventually giving rise to many culturally distinct Tribes and Indigenous American communities. Some Indigenous Americans traditional stories say that their ancestors were always here. Archeologists, who study objects and evidence left behind from early cultures, believe people have lived here for at least 16,000 years. Both ways of understanding the past are important to the study of Paleoindian history. A Time Before Texas considers both current science and cultural tradition to explore what life was like for the first people to call early Texas home. A Time Before Texas is created by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and ciruculated in partnership with Humanities Texas. For more information contact the Layland Museum of History.
September 13-October 15, 2024
Exhibition
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. For more information, contact Palo Alto College.
September 13-October 25, 2024
Exhibition
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career that spanned the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, annexation and early statehood, and the state's secession from the Union in 1861. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition traces the life and career of Houston from his boyhood in Virginia and Tennessee through his retirement and eventual passing in Huntsville, Texas. For more information, contact the Vanishing Texana Museum.
September 15 - December 5, 2024
Exhibition
Featuring striking images by Geoff Winningham, the exhibition presents a vivid chronicle of the historic and diverse traditions of Mexican festivals—deeply rooted expressions of the county's religious and cultural heritage. Beginning with his first trip to the state of Michoacán for Día de los Muertos, Winningham's work spans decades, documenting a wide array of festive traditions in villages throughout Mexico, highlighting how these celebrations unite comunities through centuries-old traditions of art, music, dance, and worship.
Mexican Fiestas is an exhibition by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, created in collaboration with Houston photographer Geoff Winningham. For more information contact the Houston Public Library.