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Bob Bullock
The museum is named for Bob Bullock, the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Texas
The museum is named after Bob Bullock, the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who championed the preservation and exhibition of Texas history. He was guest of honor at the groundbreaking in April 1999 but did not live to see it completed. The grand opening was on April 28, 2001.
Becoming Texas
The Texas History Gallery begins with a projectile point from the Gault site
In 2018 the museum unveiled its renovated Texas History Gallery, Becoming Texas. It explores more than 16,000 years of Texas history, beginning with one of the earliest known objects created by humans in the Americas, a projectile point discovered at the Gault archaeological site 40 miles north of Austin.
La Belle
The preserved hull of La Salle's ship La Belle is a centerpiece
A centerpiece of the museum is the entire preserved hull of La Belle, the ship of the French explorer La Salle, along with thousands of artifacts recovered from the 1686 shipwreck.
Third floor
The third floor covers ranching, oil, civil rights, space and music
The third floor explores land, culture and technology in Texas, with sections on ranching, oil, civil rights, science and space exploration, sports and music. The Austin City Limits Theater features musical performance clips from the long-running PBS television series based in Austin.
Day 1, midday
It comes after Texas State Capitol. Then Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge.
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