November 2010

At the Falls on the Colorado Museum, visitors can experience local history through the current exhibit, "Kitchen without Power". Soon after its founding, Marble Falls obtained limited electrical power via the falls and power house built to take advantage of the leverage of the water. However, this power didn't extend beyond the town itself and there was no rural electrical power until Buchanan and Mansfield Dams were completed in 1937 and 1941 repectively. The electrical grid would extend from those dams and began reaching rural areas as soon as the distribution structures could be constructed. That process was abruptly halted by World War II and some remote areas of Central Texas would not be hooked up until the early 1950s.

Residing today just outside of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, this Iowa-class battleship was the site of the 1945 surrender of the Japanese army, officially ending World War II.

The Missouri secured its place in history as the site of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces on Sept. 2, 1945, ending World War II. The ceremony for the signing of the Formal Instrument of Surrender was conducted by Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas A. MacArthur. After World War II, the Missouri served in the Korean War, was decommissioned, then recommissioned to go on to serve in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Visitors can transport themselves into the era of swing music and patriotism and experience World War II as told by the glider pilots who lived it. Guests can view a restored WACO CG-4A, mainstay of the U.S. glider force that flew in every major invasion of the Second World War. The adventure begins in the theatre with a fifteen-minute program, Silent Wings: The Story of the World War II Glider Program. The story continues to unfold in the Timeline, Hangar and Combat Galleries. View photographs and artifacts, including a fully restored WACO CG-4A glider, airborne equipment, and our living exhibit: the British Horsa Glider restoration project.

The complexity of the natural resource, the legacy of the industry, tand the current and future role of forest management practices can be explored through three galleries, outdoor exhibits, and an Urban Wildscape Trail. The 14 million acres of the East Texas Pineywoods are still important to Texas. Sawmills, logging railroads, and modern forest management have all influenced East Texas culture. The story of the people, places and products of the Pineywoods are the focus of the exhibits at the Texas Forestry Museum.

Forty-five authentic, furnished ranch buildings and structures have been relocated to the NRHC and show the evolution of ranch life from the late 1780s through the 1930s. Visitors to the National Ranching Heritage Center will see historic windmills, dugouts, barns, corrals and pens, a bunkhouse, one-room school house, blacksmith shop, ranch headquarters buildings, a locomotive, stock cars, depot and examples of such unique early architecture as a cabin made of cactus stalks and mud chinking and an elegant two-story ranch home ordered from a mail-order catalog. Each building has been authentically restored, furnished or outfitted to reflect period correctness.

The museum has an extensive collection of outdoor display aircraft, including an F-14A Tomcat and an S-3B Viking. Its indoor exhibits include model planes, propulsion systems, helmets, an A-7 Flight Trainer, an F-4 Flight Trainer, and two unmanned air vehicles.

Permanent exhibits illustrate the development of Gregg County include displays centered on timber, farming, oil, railroads, schools, business, and commerce. The museum also presents room scenes including the bank president's office, a dentist's office, an early 1900s parlor and bedroom, the interior of a log cabin and a general mercantile store. Other permanent exhibits include The Arthur Northcutt Brown Military Collection , a print shop exhibit with a video program,the Dalton Gang bank robbery display with a video presentation, and the Architecture in Texas exhibit.

The U.S. Naval Academy's campus features this museum, which chronicles American naval history since the Academy was founded.

The U.S. Naval Academy Museum serves as an educational and inspirational resource for the Brigade of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, other students of American naval history, and thousands of visitors each year. Through its collections and exhibits, the Museum contributes to the recognition of history as a basic source of knowledge in advancing the theory and practice of sea power - "Ex Scientia Tridens": from knowledge, sea power.

Utilizing three-dimensional and graphic materials, the Museum demonstrates the Navy's role, in war and in peace, in defending and preserving the ideals of our country and mankind. The exhibitions and related research are reminders of our naval heritage - a long record of loyalty, integrity, and service to the nation.

The Wolf Creek Heritage museum tells the story of its people and the evolution of the immigration of these people to the Panhandle. The museum's exhibits explore the social and historical significance of the early settlers through current day.

With special emphasis on the boot camp experience, the museum documents the Navy way of life.

The Naval Station Great Lakes Museum Exhibit is a government-owned and operated museum dedicated to telling the story of "boot camp" training in the United States Navy, and in particular, the Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois. Although originally one of four boot camps, it is now home to Recruit Training Command, the only Navy recruit training command. A special section of the museum is dedicated to the expanding role of women in the United States Navy.