MoBB In The News

John Klingemann, Ph.D. chosen to lead Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine

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Meet the American who mapped the US-Mexico border, General William Emory, shaped nation in war and in peace

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Museum of the Big Bend wins two major honors, including Best Small Town Museum in the USA

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Museum of the Big Bend tops USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards 2024

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Museum of the Big Bend events space by Rebekah Antrosio

Big Bend Expands Event Space

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Front entrance of new museum building by Rebekah Antrosio

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

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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.

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Black woodcut of the front of museum

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.

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

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Black woodcut of the front of museum
The Museum has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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