MoBB In The News

Front entrance of new museum building by Rebekah Antrosio

The Museum of the Big Bend Gets a Gorgeous $11 Million Expansion

A Friendly Encounter, c.1940s, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, Fred Darge. Gifted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McKee III.

Darge collection donated to Museum of the Big Bend

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Round Up Time: Branding a Calf, 1945-1946, Oil on canvas covered masonite, 18″ x 31.75″, Tom Lea, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of LIFE Magazine, 1950.37

Tom Lea paintings will be on exhibit in new Museum of the Big Bend annex.

Old Fort Davis – Green Plaster, 1949, oil on Masonite, 20″ x 28″, William Lewis Lester, The John L. Nau III Collection of Texas Art

John L Nau III sharing collection of Texas Art for grand opening of McCoy Building at Museum of the Big Bend.

Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, TX Honored as Top Western Museum by True West Magazine!

The Museum has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Architect's Renderings of the view of the Museum Complex from West Forecourt

Caldwell Family Gift to Create New Welcome Center at Museum of the Big Bend

Museum of the Big Bend is included in this article from Travel Awaits, “7 Best Things to Explore in Rural Alpine, Texas”.

Museum of the Big Bend honored by True West Magazine. Alpine Radio interviews True West‘s CEO about the Museum.

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Museum of the Big Bend receives $5 million donation from the McCoy Family

Steadfast Museum of the Big Bend advocate and friend, John Martin “Marty” Davis, Jr., passes at 74.

Texas Standard
Map Exhibit at Museum of the Big Bend Illuminates Five Centuries of Mexican History

AARP mentions the MoBB as a key stop in their slide show of Great American Road Trips! (note: click through to the last slide to see us).

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Landscape Photographer Jim Bones on the Big Bend – Texas Parks and Wildlife [Official]See the video!

Museum of the Big Bend was featured in the April 2015 issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife, “Bare Bones: Loss of sight caused photographer Jim Bones to see Big Bend in a different light.”

Museum of the Big Bend was featured in the April 2015 issue of Texas Highways magazine: “The Apache Amulet: A symbol of life—and death.”

Museum of the Big Bend was featured in the September 2014 issue of Texas Monthly, “The Livermore Cache: Hunting down a historic collection of arrowheads.”

Museum of the Big Bend was featured in the March/April issue of PRIME Living magazine, the luxury lifestyle magazine of Texas, targeting affluent adults.