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.
Events
July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025
Exhibition
January 17-March 15, 2025
Exhibition
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a Humanities Texas traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, explores the Port of Galveston's role in the story of 19th and 20th century immigration to the United States and considers universal themes of immigration including leaving home, encountering danger, confronting discrimination, and navigating bureaucracy. For more information, contact the Texas Maritime Museum.
February 1-March 31, 2025
Exhibition
On June 19, 1865, General Orders No. 3, was issued in Galveston, announcing to the people of Texas that, in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, “all slaves are free.” This day—which has since become known as Juneteenth—is now celebrated nationwide as the day that marked freedom for all Black Americans. Juneteenth presents engaging text accompanied by dynamic works of art, photographs, and historical documents to chronicle this pivotal period in U.S. history.
February 6–April 28, 2025
Exhibition
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a Humanities Texas traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, explores the Port of Galveston's role in the story of 19th and 20th century immigration to the United States and considers universal themes of immigration including leaving home, encountering danger, confronting discrimination, and navigating bureaucracy. For more information, contact Czech Center Museum Houston.
February 24-March 22, 2025
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 Falls on the Colorado Museum.
February 24–March 22, 2025
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 Falls on the Colorado Museum.
February 26-April 2, 2025
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 Honey Grove Library & Learning Center.
March 3 - 28, 2025
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 Tye Preston Memorial Library.
March 22, 8:00 p.m.
Film screening
At 8:00 p.m. on March 22, The Meadows Center will screen the film Yakona with the band Montopolis performing the film score live. Film directors Anlo Sepulveda and Paul Collins will introduce the film and lead a panel discussion featuring scholar Miranda Wait, deputy director of Spring Lake Education at The Meadows Center. For more information, contact The Meadows Center.
March 28–30, 2025
Conference
At 5:00 p.m. on March 28 and 11:00 a.m. on March 29, ASIANetwork will hold public programs at their 2025 Annual Conference. The programs include a dance performance by Trinity University's AAPI student organization, a keynote address by Madeline Y. Hsu, a film screening of Camellia Flowers, and a book discussion of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. For more information, contact ASIANetwork.