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Permanent Collection
Contains ossified marine sea life dating to 60 million years ago. Did you know that this entire area was once under the ocean? The Hill Country, from New Braunfels to Kerrville were towering mountains back then.
This exhibit reflects the beginning of the end of the Ice Age about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. As the climate became less cold, warm blooded wooly mammoths and mastodons began to appear. You can see some of them here.
Contains artifacts of earliest human life in this region. By 8,000 years ago, early indigenous peoples (today called Native Americans) discovered the warmer climate and migrated with the seasons through this part of Texas.
Houses Hispanic contributions to the region. There are religious artifacts from Guatemala to folklorico dance instruments and clothing to more utilitarian items such as a large mocajete.
These are items representing the Texas Revolution where Mexican and Anglos, women, men, and children of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas joined arms to become independent of Mexico.
Many Germans, fleeing political unrest in German city states of the 1840s and 1850s, sought refuge in Texas. See what they brought with them.
At the north end of the exhibit space is a frontier bedroom with a portrait of Abishai Mercer Dickson which is the chapter name for Seguin's Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
In the Victorian Parlor is a period piano, velvet covered cherry wood Gents chair, fireplace with pure Walnut mantle, and a marble topped credenza.
The Kitchen boasts the wood burning gray granite stove made of cast iron, period cooking utensils, plates, saucers, storage cabinets with shelves, and drawers. See how they set the table a century ago. |
