Evening for Educators: Gone to Texas
Programs
June 26, 2025 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us for a FREE event exclusively for educators.
Event Details
Experience the Bullock Museum through special exhibition tours and hands-on activities. Designed for teachers of all grade levels and subjects, this free open house event connects teachers to classroom resources, artifact-based and primary source teaching strategies, and local community resources.
Throughout our history, people have moved here from all around the world, bringing their cultural traditions and shaping Texas's identity over generations. Explore these themes with two featured exhibitions, hands-on activities, and connections to community organizations.
- Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West explores the interplay between religion and U.S. expansion in the 19th-century West. Guiding visitors on a journey through an array of places and communities, the exhibition illuminates how religion in various forms became an integral part of American life. The rarely told stories highlight religion as a source of identity, an impetus for settlement, a force of social organization and control, and a resource for resistance and resilience.
- Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the ship La Belle, which is on display in the first floor gallery Becoming Texas. Take a deep dive into the story of the French explorer La Salle, his expedition to Texas, and how French culture has shaped Texas. Learn how archeologists excavated, conserved and rebuilt the ship, using creative problem-solving and innovative techniques.
Enjoy prize drawings, refreshments, the company of fellow teachers, and receive an SBEC-approved CPE certificate.
Featured Activities
- Enjoy refreshments in the Grand Lobby.
- Explore the Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West special exhibition.
- Try your hand at activities that you can use in the classroom.
- Meet with local organizations for opportunities for classroom connections.
- Take home educator resources to supplement classroom curriculum.
- Explore areas of the Texas History Galleries with new artifacts and stories on display.
The event is free of charge and parking for registered attendees is complimentary in the Museum’s garage. Stay tuned for a more detailed schedule. Questions? Contact (512) 936-4604 or education@thestoryoftexas.com.
School Programs are generously funded by Featured Sponsor The Marie M. and James H. Galloway Foundation and Contributing sponsor The Honorable Kent R. Hance.
The Bullock Museum, a division of the Texas State Preservation Board, is funded by Museum Members, donors, and patrons, the Texas State History Museum Foundation, and the State of Texas.
