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Amateur paleoartist and professional Texan Matt Flynn takes you on a journey to reveal the data in the strata of paleontology. Learn how advancements in the field have changed our […]

Now Starring Texas! Since 1900, moving images have captured the people, landscapes, traditions, and stories of Texas. But both film and videotape are quickly obsolescing. The Texas Archive of the […]

Join us on August 9th to talk pirates, navies, sailing ships and steamships with Julia Stryker, PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Julia studies women's labor at […]

In September 1923, a trial began in Williamson County's 26th District Courtroom. That case, presided over by Judge James R. Hamilton and prosecuted by Dan Moody, pitted the rule of […]

Texas Music Road Trip: Sounding the Geography of Central Texas From Buddy Holly on the high plains to Janis Joplin in Port Arthur, Freddy Fender in the Lower Rio Grande […]

The Night Owl Before Christmas   Join us for a special holiday Salon featuring ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future! Stephen Belyeu, producer and host of the Night Owl […]

The Art of Loaning Art   Join us at Wildfire on January 10th to welcome Ester Harrison, Art Registrar for Loans and Exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center, as we […]

Fire of Love documentary screening   Join us at the museum on February 14th for a special Valentine's Day Salon: A screening of the Oscar-nominated, National Geographic documentary film Fire […]

 Go Beyond the Road with TxDOT: Wilco Edition   What goes into (and under) Texas's roads and highways? Rebekah Dobrasko, Cultural Resources Director for TxDOT Environmental Affairs, will take us […]

Women of Wilco with Helen Cordes     Meet some wonderful women of Wilco! Journalist Helen Cordes went digging for Wilco herstories and found amazing females who made life better […]