TCU produces traveling historic Texas Map exhibit

TCU's Center for Texas Studies is partnering with the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University to produce “Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps,” an exhibit consisting of 64 historic Texas maps from the Yana & Marty Davis Map Collection

Fort Worth, TX

11/5/2007

TCU's Center for Texas Studies is partnering with the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University in Alpine to produce “Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps,” an exhibit consisting of 64 historic Texas maps from the Yana & Marty Davis Map Collection.

“There’s so much here that you can learn about Texas history,” said J. Edward Townes, assistant director of the Center for Texas Studies at TCU. “You watch Texas grow and redefine itself through these maps.”

The exhibit, featuring maps dating from 1548 to 2006, will travel around the state for a period of two years, beginning on November 3 at the Old Red Museum in Dallas, and ending in January 2010 at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. The exhibit will also travel to Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Mayborn Museum Complex in Waco, Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg, Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Centennial Museum in El Paso, and the Old Jail Art Center in Albany. A catalog illustrating the maps will accompany the exhibit and was published by the TCU Press.

The Center for Texas Studies at TCU is an interdisciplinary center whose mission is “to celebrate all that makes Texas distinctive.” In 2006, the Center for Texas Studies completed its Texas Flags exhibit, which was viewed by more than 300,000 people. The Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University collects and interprets the history and cultures of the Big Bend of Texas and northern Mexico.

For more information, please visit www.texasstudies.org or call (817) 257-6295.