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FEBRUARY 14, 2025 – FEBRUARY 15, 2025
The Pearce Museum is Closed for a Private Event
The museum will be closed for a private event on Friday, February 14 through Saturday, February 15.
The Civil War exhibit, Hunter-Gatherers exhibit, and Western Art exhibit will reopen on Monday, February 17, 2025.
2025 Texas Invitational Art Show and Sale
February 19, 2025 – March 27, 2025
The 2025 Texas Invitational Art Show and Sale begins with an opening reception February 19th at 5:30.
Living History Event
March 1, 2025 | 10am-4pm
LHOn March 1, 2025, the Pearce Museum will host a special event to commemorate the closing of the 160th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. The Civil War collection holds over 17,000 documents and artifacts belonging to those who experienced that tragic time in American history. This event will involve volunteer reenactors portraying the lives of these individuals and demonstrate their perspectives through first-person interpretation.
Come out to the museum and learn how we preserve and interpret as accurately as possible the history of the American Civil War and the people involved – North and South, men and women, children and adults, leaders and common citizens.
This event runs from 10AM to 4PM and will involve musket demonstrations at noon and 3PM. The museum is home to several impressive, permanent collections of Civil War history, western arts, and the Hunter-Gatherers of the Blackland Prairies.
Civil War Exhibition
The Civil War collection at the Pearce Museum has more than 15,000 documents as well as a number of photographs and three-dimensional artifacts that directly relate to the period 1861 – 1865 and are original to that time period, or were written or made within the life of a participant in the American Civil War.
Hunter-Gatherer Exhibition
The Hunter-Gatherers of the Blackland Prairie gallery at the Pearce Museum has more than 44,000 artifacts related to Central Texas’s prehistoric period.
Western Art Exhibition
The Western Art collection at the Pearce Museum has 250 works of art in a realistic style that directly relate to the historic and modern American West.
Special Exhibit
“Navarro County’s Loughridge Family Civil War Experiences”
Pictured is James Roger Loughridge, a Civil War veteran, who was a lawyer and county judge in Navarro County at the time the Civil War broke out.
Glad to have stumbled upon this museum, it was fascinating and informative. Especially as our country seems to be presently very divided, it serves as a reminder to not repeat history.
Galleries
Civil War Exhibition
From the Collection:
Joseph B. Polley (CSA) – born October 27, 1840, Brazoria County, Texas; son of Joseph Henry Polley, who moved to Texas in 1821 with Stephen F. Austin as one of the “Old Three Hundred” colonists; graduated from Florence Wesleyan University in Florence, Alabama;enlisted 4th Texas Infantry, Co. F, “Hood’s Texas Brigade”; wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill 1862; wounded at the Battle of Darbytown Road October 7, 1864; foot amputated as a result of the wound; discharged January 25, 1865; upon return to Texas studied law and admitted to the bar 1868; member of 16th Texas Legislature in 1879; married Martha Legette in 1866 and had four children; published his memoirs entitled “Hood’s Texas Brigade” in 1910; died in Floresville, Texas February 2, 1918.
Western Art Exhibition
The collection is both two and three-dimensional; including media such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, and guache, as well as bronze and alabaster sculpture.
Featured Collection
Gallery
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Testimonials
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.
10am - 5pm
Free entry
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