Multimedia Gallery

Browse through photo galleries, and listen to podcasts from exhibits featured in the Museum.

You'll need QuickTime to open some of the podcasts; click here for a free download.

High Noon Talks Podcasts

Irwin Tang, editor of Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives, guides the audience along the journey of an imaginary Chinese Texan landing on the shores of Galveston in 1870.  Click here to listen.

Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg, Author of Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance, and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, is interviewed about his expertise on Mexican cinema and images of Latinos in American cinema.  Click here to listen.

Dr. Evan Carton, Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, is interviewed about his upcoming presentation.  Dr. Carton will present four poems from the collection, Americans' Favorite Poems, compiled at the turn of the 21st century by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.  Click here to listen.

Dr. Dwight Watson, Associate Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, is interviewed about the history of Juneteenth and Galveston's role in its creation.  Click here to listen.

Dr. Thomas Barnes, Senior Research Scientist at the McDonald Observatory, is interviewed about his upcoming presentation on the history of the McDonald Observatory, in recognition of the International Year of Astronomy. Click here to listen. 

Exhibit Podcasts

Michael Carabello, a member of Santana's band, discusses his influences as a conga player. Click here to listen. Learn more about Michael Carabello in the Museum's exhibit, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music.

image courtesty of Experience Music Project, Seattle


Eva Ybarra, Texas accordionist,  talks about how the accordion was the only instrument she ever wanted to play. Click here to listen. Learn more about Eva Ybarra in the Museum's exhibit, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music.

image courtesty of Experience Music Project, Seattle

Jesse "Chuy" Varela, music director at KCSM in San Francisco, talks about how Ritchie Valens' rock & roll influence led to the Eastside sound. Click here to listen. Learn more about Jesse Varela in the Museum's exhibit, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music.

image courtesty of Experience Music Project, Seattle




Every November or December the 576 postcards on the third floor are replaced with 576 other postcards borrowed from the Jenkins Garrett Texas Post Card Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. To see the Museum exhibit technicians change out these postcards and to learn more about the process each incoming artifact goes through at the Museum, watch this video.

Lender Donaly Brice discusses the Reconstruction era Loyalty Oath of George Heinrich with Museum Exhibit Planner Tom Wancho.  Click here to listen.

Collector Alex McDuffie talks with Tom Wancho about the rare Civil War shell jacket he has loaned the Museum.  Click here to listen. 

Mat Darby, archivist at the ExxonMobil Historical Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History, talks with exhibit planner Tom Wancho about the ExxonMobil collection and an advertisement for Humble Oil on loan to the Museum until July 2010. Click here to listen.

Sam Nesmith of the Texas Museum of Military History in San Antonio, talks with Exhibit Planner Tom Wancho about a 16th century chain mail shirt on loan to the Museum for display in the Encounters on the Land exhibit on the first floor. Click here to listen.

Dr. Peter Keim, collector of over 600 American flags and author of A Grand Old Flag: A History of the United States Through its Flags, talks about the Great Luminary 28 star flag he has loaned the Museum for display in the Statehood section of our permanent exhibits on the 2nd floor. The flag will be on display until December 2009. Click here to listen.

Video podcast interview with Steve Kanaly, who played Ray Krebbs in the TV show Dallas, about his experiences on the landmark series and on objects he loaned for the special exhibition Dallas: Power & Passion on Primetime TV. Click here to see the podcast.

Guest curator Janet Staiger talks about the special exhibition Dallas: Power & Passion on Primetime TV (May 31-September 14, 2008). Click here to listen.

National Archives and Records Administration Senior Curator Stacey Bredhoff speaks about the special exhibition Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives (February 16-April 20, 2008). Click here to listen.

Photo Galleries
Click on the links to open photo galleries from exhibit and IMAX opening celebrations.

	Music Under the Star 2009		Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opening night
	Cowboys and Presidents opening		Wells Fargo First Saturdays on October 4, 2008
	Wild Ocean 3D opening		Dallas: Power & Passion in Primetime TV opening
	EXTREME opening		Grand Canyon Adventure 3D: River at Risk opening
	Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives opening weekend		Dolphins and Whales 3D opening