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Texas Confederate Museum

The Texas Confederate Museum is a former museum in Austin, Texas, run by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, each of which had a separate collection in the museum.[1]

Its first location, from 1903, was in the northwest room on the first floor of the

Old Land Office Building on the Capitol grounds, where it would remain until 1988,[3][2][4] when the state told the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Dsughters of the Republic of Texas to vacate.[3] After repair and renovation, the building was given a new function as the Capitol Visitors Center.[1] (The Visitors Center does not publicize that the building was for 71 years a Confederate museum, longer than it housed the Land Office. It receives one sentence in the history of the building, and the only appearance of the word "Confederate" is in the name "United Daughters of the Confederacy" who, with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, "housed their two museum collections in the former Land Office".[1] An accompanying page of historical photographs shows only a "GLO [General Land Office] exhibit room 1961", although the General Land Office had left the building for good in 1920. Nowhere does it refer to the Texas Confederate Museum.[5]
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The Museum never reopened as it never found a new permanent home; its collections were passed from one institution to another like a hot potato that nobody wanted. From 1988 to 1990, its materials were stored in a warehouse of the

Texas Heritage Museum (formerly the Confederate Research Center) until 2000, when the agreement terminated.[8] The collection returned to temporary storage at Baylor University in Waco, where it was inventoried and catalogued. It then was stored in Fort Worth. During this time, items from the collection were loaned to a number of museums.[9]

In 2002, the

Board of Directors
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areferences

  1. ^ a b c State Preservation Board of Texas. "History of the Capitol Visitors Center". Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Daffan, Katie (August 6, 1925). "Texas Confederate Museum Is Valuable and Interesting". Bryan Weekly Eagle. p. 7.
  3. ^ a b "Texas Confederate Museum. Fort Worth, Texas". MuseumsUSA. February 2, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  4. ^ "Historic General Land Office Photographs". Texas State Preservation Board. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Historic General Land Office Photographs". Texas State Preservation Board. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  6. ^ Harriman, Cynthia L. (March 2, 1990). "The Texas Confederate Museum is moving to Waco in July". Waco Citizen. p. 9.
  7. ^ "Local Members Travel for Museum Opening". Lockhart Post-Register. August 2, 1990. p. 8.
  8. ^ "UDC [United Daughters of the Confederacy]". New Braunfels Herald Zeitung. November 6, 1994. p. 23.
  9. ^ Preston, Retta; Bell, Hilda Kelly; Harriman, Cynthia Loveless. "Texas Confederate Museum". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  10. ^ Nita Steward Haley Memorial Library & J. Evetts Haley Research Center. "The Texas Confederate Museum Collection Index". Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  11. ^ Texas Civil War Museum (2006). "Visit the Museum". Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  12. ^ Texas Civil War Museum (2006). "About Us". Retrieved August 3, 2018.
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