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Lyndon B. Johnson at age 20, seated in the middle, with his students in Cotulla, Texas, 1928-1929. The museum is planning an oral history project with LBJ's students and their living relatives.
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Collection Development
We are actively building our holdings and seeking the acquisition of artifacts and momentos, manuscripts, research materials, creative works, rare books, periodicals and news clippings, photographs, and audiovisual sources relating to LBJ and his association with San Marcos, Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University), and Cotulla, Texas. We are also interested in acquiring materials pertaining to the context of LBJ's early life in the Texas Hill Country, early twentieth-century Texas politics and education, Mexican-American immigration during the 1920s, the American Presidency as an institution, Civil Rights and other Great Society legislation, Gary Job Corps, and any enduring legacy that LBJ left to the community of San Marcos, Hays County, and the Central Texas region. These materials will be properly accessioned into our collection, catalogued, organized, and published in reference guides and made available to the general public for research and edcuational purposes. Please contact us if you would like to donate objects or papers to the museum, or loan them to us on a temporary basis as part of our museum exhibit.
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School Group Tours
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos will start providing opportunities in the Fall of 2007 for teachers and educators to bring their students to the museum for guided tours, lessons, and presentations of our artifacts, exhibits, history, and archival documents. This program will include pre-tour lesson plans and instructional guides, as well as a small "traveling exhibit" to the classroom, in preparation for the tour of the museum. Teachers and educators are welcomed to consult with the Museum Director regarding lesson plans and classroom exercises to better educate their students on LBJ, Texas history, and museum practice. This program is open to all ages and class levels. We encourage you to contact us for scheduling school tours in the fall or spring.
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Traveling Trunk
The Traveling Trunk is an outreach program for public and private schools, clubs, organizations, and special events, in which we bring the LBJ Museum of San Marcos to you! Our trunk of archival goodies includes an illustrated comic book of LBJ's life, an authentic LBJ hat, an original copy of Life magazine from the 1960s, a photograph of LBJ with his students in Cotulla during the 1920s, and more. We will visit your class or group and give a presentation about LBJ history using real artifacts and documents. Please contact us to arrange for a special Traveling Trunk visit.
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Internships and Projects
Internships will be available at our museum beginning in the fall of 2007 and is open to graduate and undergraduate students of history, sociology, political science, and education. We can offer the student an opportunity to learn first-hand the practice of museum science and material culture, curatorship and exhibit design, archival management, historic preservation, oral history, community history, heritage tourism, teaching practice, educational models, economic development, community development, and research methodology. Typically, an internship will involve both the student and his/her professor or advisor, working with the museum director, on formulating a basic plan of what the students intends to accomplish, such as a written docent manual or a processed archival collection. Some of the museum's short- and long-term needs include artifact research, processing collections, database design, reference guides and finding aids, reformatting and preserving audiovisual media, lesson plans for primary and secondary schools, oral history and background research, economic and community planning, library management and on-line catalogues, preservation of artifacts and documents, exhibit design and construction, interior design, and architectural planning for completing our building. We have many opportunities and possibilities! Please contact us for more information or if you would like to discuss internships and special projects.
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Proposed Lecture Series
The lecture series will be a joint initiative between the LBJ Museum of San Marcos, the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, and Texas State University-San Marcos. The series will be devoted to exploratory discussions of the American Presidency. It will present leading scholars who will discuss modern views of both the Constitution, constitutional interpretation and the public policy framework implied by this document. The series will examine 1) the ways in which the presidency as an institution has changed in response to our evolving institutional goals and 2) the public policy issues which undergo inevitable change as a consequence of their association with different presidential administrations. The series will be geared to the adult lay public. We view this initiative as being the keystone of the museum adult community outreach programming. The Officers of the museum have already received a commitment of support from Mr. Larry Reed (Director, LBJ Foundation) and Dr. Kenneth Grasso (Director, Texas State University Political Science Department's Program in American Constitutionalism). The Officers of the museum, from its inception, have viewed such a public lecture series as an essential part of the museum's mission of informing and educating the general public of our historical resources. Our museum's location between two large Texas cities with a number of major universities, and in a town which contains a large university, would substantially facilitate its ability to gain access to nationally known scholars in the areas of American government and politics. In the distant future we hope to gain access to C-SPAN for the broader dissemination of such a lecture series.
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You may write to us at:
LBJ Museum of San Marcos
P.O.Box 3
San Marcos, TX 78667
512-353-3300
director@lbjmuseum.com
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