by Pamela Morales | Oct 7, 2019 | News, Programs & Special Events
Join the Museum of South Texas History on Oct. 13, at 2 p.m., for a Sunday Speaker Series presentation of “World War I History in the Rio Grande Valley” featuring Charles Vincent Waite and Michael Faubion. Waite and Faubion will present how military reforms at the...
by Pamela Morales | Oct 4, 2019 | Admissions, News, Programs & Special Events
On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Museum of South Texas History will host “Walk & Talk Hispanic Heritage” during Free Saturday Morning. The morning will begin with a bilingual historic walking tour where guests will learn Edinburg history. The tour begins promptly at 8...
by Pamela Morales | Sep 19, 2019 | News, Programs & Special Events
The Museum of South Texas History welcomes back Dr. Jamie Starling for a Sunday Speaker Series program. Starling will present “Health, Motherhood, and Infancy in the Colonial Rio Grande Valley” on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. This presentation examines health in the...
by Pamela Morales | Sep 13, 2019 | News, Staff
The Board of Trustees of the Museum of South Texas History is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Francisco Guajardo as the museum’s new Chief Executive Officer. Guajardo, of Edinburg, Texas, is the former executive director for the B3 Institute at the University...
by Pamela Morales | Sep 6, 2019 | News, Programs & Special Events
A September morning in 1989 changed the city of Alton’s history forever. At 7:34 a.m., a Dr. Pepper truck collided with Mission School Bus no. 6. After the bus and its occupants plunged into a water-filled caliche pit, 21 students lost their lives. Thirty years later,...
by Pamela Morales | Aug 30, 2019 | Admissions, Jail, News, Occasions, Programs & Special Events
On Saturday, Sept. 14, the museum will extend its normal Free Saturday Morning hours to include a full day. Why, what’s going on? The newly restored 1910 Jail will be open for one day for the public to explore. The number one question from museum visitors is, “When is...
Recent Comments