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Annual Report 2016 2016 Annual Report Director’s Summary Understanding how we, as Texans, arrived at this point in our history is more important than ever. Your support makes it possible for us to illuminate our past. Director’s Summary The Bullock Texas State History 2002. I take that as affirmation that Museum is at the forefront of a the diversity of programming the journey to illuminate our past, Museum creates is relevant to the and we couldn’t do it without you, communities we serve, and that our many supporters. With the there is a thirst for knowledge to collaborations of long-standing and understand our past, examine the new partnerships, we shared the present, and prepare for the future. amazing and thought-provoking And it is not just inside the Museum history of Texas through a that we’re making an impact, but dynamic array of artifacts, ground- through our educational outreach breaking exhibitions, educational on our expanded website and programming, and films in our 15th through the award-winning Texas anniversary year. That’s 15 short Story Project. years during which we welcomed In FY2016 we received awards from over 7.5 million people through our the Texas Association of Museums, doors. In FY2016 we saw our highest American Alliance of Museums, and attendance, nearly 600,000, since the American Association for State just our many colleagues in Texas, and Local History. As one of the but among historically minded youngest state history museums in institutions nationwide. We couldn’t the country, we are honored that be more honored to be the state’s our Life and Death on the Border official history museum. 1910–1920 exhibition received critical acclaim in the Journal of American Historians, and in the press at home and abroad. We worked with St. Edwards University design students and Texas schoolchildren in nearly every county to create the Butterfly Margaret Koch Project, a breathtaking Rotunda Interim Director installation that spoke of hope while Bullock Texas State History Museum remembering the past. And now, more than ever, we look ahead to furthering our leadership among not Celebrating 15 Years in the Heart of Texas The Bullock Museum marked 15 years in the heart of Texas in FY2016 with an exciting schedule of special events and exhibitions, a new book featuring iconic artifacts, and a re-envisioned IMAX® Theater. Installation of the Bullock Museum’s plaza Star, 2001. FY2016 Celebrated 15 years of the 2001 2016 Bullock Texas State History Museum with 1,000 inaugural members. Welcomed Installed 651 592,776 new artifacts in the visitors to the Museum. exhibition galleries. 1,529 Welcomed Blue Star military members 86,028 students, teachers, and and their families walked chaperones to the Museum. through Museum doors. At a Glance Authored Seeing Texas History: The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, featuring artifacts covering 4,000 years of Texas history, published by UT Press. Hosted over 400 1,000,000 programs and unique users visited the events. Bullock Museum website. 166 Texans shared 19,332 hours of their stories online on service were contributed The Texas Story Project. by over 100 volunteers. Artifacts & Exhibitions Creating memorable opportunities to connect with the tangible evidence of Texas history remains at the center of the Museum’s exhibition goals. Newport Rifles Company battle flag, 1835–1836. Courtesy State Preservation Board, Austin. Artifacts & Exhibitions Throughout the year, the Museum to light in-depth examination of continued to raise the bar on the some of the state’s lesser known quality and number of special historical narratives. The Museum exhibitions and significant artifacts was honored by the support and on view in the galleries. Over trust of 29 new artifact lenders, the course of just 12 months, 177 including the Computer History original documents, artifacts, and Museum in Mountain View, California, paintings were rotated into the the Victoria Independent School Texas History Galleries’ three floors, District in Victoria, Texas, the adding richness to the more than Wendish Museum in Giddings, Texas, 500 artifacts already on view. Two the Institute of Texan Cultures in acclaimed, nationally traveling San Antonio, the Museum of the Big exhibitions were installed, and three Bend, and additional private lenders. temporary exhibitions developed A rare opportunity presented itself and designed in-house enhanced when a temporary home for display the visitor experience by bringing of the Capitol’s San Jacinto battle flag was needed. Through the History in Austin. Highlighting the generosity of the Texas State Library exceptional horsemen, the new and Archives and the Dallas Historical Comanche case included saddles Society, for the first time since the and an edited and re-installed video Texas Revolution’s battlefields, detailing Comanche legacy as told by five flags carried into war were all contemporary tribal leaders. on view together from April through In December 2015, the Museum August. They remain the only known installed the Austin City Limits (ACL) surviving flags of the Revolution still Theater, a large-screen concert in Texas. Additional artifacts in the experience that takes audiences from Texas History Galleries spanned the the 1974 pilot broadcast of Willie centuries — an 18th century Spanish Nelson’s ACL performance to the sword belonging to empresario present day. Working with ACL and Martín de León, a rare Texas State KLRU-TV, the intimate space was Police badge from the 1870s, a young transformed into a stage reminiscent David Vetter’s “bubble boy” isolation of ACL’s original 1970s set. Artifacts suit prototype ca. 1975 designed installed included an Austin City by NASA, and 1992 Olympic coach Limits neon sign and tree branches Barbara Jacket’s track jacket. An from the iconic Studio 6A. A long- installation on the second floor term installation, visitors enjoy the featuring the Comanche included sights and sounds of Lyle Lovett, artifacts from three longtime Loretta Lynn, Flaco Jiménez, museum partners, the Panhandle- Sheryl Crow, Radiohead, and many Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, others who performed throughout the Heritage Society in Houston, the years. and the Briscoe Center for American Austin City Limits neon sign, 1980. Courtesy KLRU-TV, Austin. A young museum visitor studies the Deinosuchas riograndensis skull cast from the exhibition Journey Into Big Bend. The Herzstein Gallery hosted two historical, cultural, and scientific traveling exhibitions. Gridiron Glory intersection of humans and food The Best of the Pro-Football Hall of and contained a test kitchen that Fame, from Pro Football Exhibits, included family-heirloom aprons LLC in association with The Pro loaned by central Texans. Football Hall of Fame and Museum, Bullock Museum staff curated two assembled over 200 artifacts to original exhibitions for the third present the panoramic story of floor rotunda. The groundbreaking professional football, from its humble exhibition, Life and Death on beginnings in the late 19th century the Border 1910–1920, brought to its current status as a cultural new voices and perspectives to phenomenon. Our Global Kitchen, the forefront of Texas history Food, Nature, Culture, a highly by challenging traditional interactive, multi-media exhibition understandings of early 20th century from the American Museum of frontier justice. Pancho Villa’s saddle, Natural History, explored the family wedding gowns, artwork and Into Big Bend, celebrated the 100th poignant photographs provided anniversary of the formation of the richness and personal connections National Park Service by spotlighting for thousands of visitors to the bi- the Big Bend region with stunning lingual exhibition. The exhibition won photography, personal artifacts, and a Leadership in History Award of pre-recorded reflections from eight Merit from the American Association individuals who have protected, for State and Local History (AASLH). explored, adventured, and come to The summer exhibition, Journey love the vast and valued ecosystem. Pacho Villa’s saddle, ca. 1915. Courtesy Enrique Guerra, San Vicente Ranch, Linn, Texas. La Belle Since the 2015 opening of the award winning, La Belle: The Ship That Changed History, in the first floor Texas History Gallery, the interim exhibition has proven to be one of the most popular in the Museum. A rendering of the design plan for La Belle by Ralph Appelbaum and Associates, 2013. First Floor Gallery Featuring La Belle The content and design plan for visitors’ understanding of our earliest the final iteration of the gallery, human history in the region. The including preserving La Belle’s hull Bullock Museum is honored to have underneath a deck of glass, is well the expert consultation of renown underway and on track to open in the archaeologists and historians Dr. fall of 2018. Campaign fundraising Julianna Barr (early Indigenous continued throughout the year. history), Dr. James Bruseth Extensive research was undertaken (La Belle), Dr. Jesús F. de la Teja to reimagine the exhibition, (Texas history), and Emma Hansen beginning with the story of Texas (American Indian cultures). Their long before the arrival of European contributions have been central to all explorers and on through Mexican aspects of development, design, and independence in 1821, critical for interpretation. The curatorial team identified American Indians, the French, the artifacts that will allow visitors to Spanish, and culminate with the begin their journey 14,000 years ago, global impact of colonization of through Pre-Columbian America, territories we now call Texas. on to the first encounters between Museum guests enter the La Belle exhibition and examine related artifacts. Theaters & Films The Bullock Museum’s dynamic film and theater program offered visitors a unique cinematic experience in the IMAX® and Texas Spirit theaters. Executive director of the Austin Film Festival, Barbara Morgan (right), interviews Parker Posey for the 35mm screening of Waiting for Guffman, 2016. Theaters & Films The Bullock film and theater program Adjusting its schedule to focus on continued to expand in FY2016.
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