The Bryan Museum is pleased to announce the celebration of a most significant and historic event. The 200th year anniversary of the settlement of Texas and the West by Moses Austin and later his son, Stephen F. Austin. This will mark the bicentennial year in which Austin received the authorization to bring colonists to a land the Spanish called Tejas. This was the crowning moment that propelled America towards the reality of manifest destiny and ultimately extending America’s reach from sea to shining sea.
The exhibition entitled “Finding Your Way to Texas” will open on December 20 and run through April 4, 2021. The exhibition will feature important artifacts associated with Moses and Stevens visionary efforts to bring colonists to Texas. A centerpiece of the exhibit will be maps which inspired Austin’s efforts to produce the first accurate map of the interior of that unsettled and wild part of America we now call Texas. Many of these maps in the exhibition are hand drawn and extremely rare and some have never been available for public viewing. The exhibit will feature maps from other map makers beginning in the 1500s and continuing to 1845 which is the date of the last edition of Austin’s remarkable mapping talents.
This exhibition was made possible by a collaboration with the Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas, The Witte Museum, The Museum of the Big Bend, Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection at Sul Ross State University. The Bryan Museum is open from Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information please visit www.thebryanmuseum.org. The Bryan Museum is located at 1315 21st Street, Galveston, TX 77550. (409) 632-7685
