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The Texas Confederate Museum is a former museum in Austin, Texas, run by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and
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the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, each of which had a separate collection in the museum.[1]
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Its first location, from 1903, was in the northwest room on the first floor of the Texas Legislature.[2] In 1920 it moved to a
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permanent home in the Old Land Office Building on the Capitol grounds, where it would remain until 1988,[3][2][4] when the
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state told the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Dsughters of the Republic of Texas to vacate.[3] After repair and renovation, the building was given a new function as the Capitol Visitors Center.[1] (The Visitors Center does not publicize that
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the building was for 71 years a Confederate museum, longer than it housed the Land Office. It receives one sentence in the
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history of the building, and the only appearance of the word "Confederate" is in the name "United Daughters of the
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Confederacy" who, with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, "housed their two museum collections in the former Land
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Office".[1] An accompanying page of historical photographs shows only a "GLO [General Land Office] exhibit room 1961",
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although the General Land Office had left the building for good in 1920. Nowhere does it refer to the Texas Confederate Museum.[5])
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The Museum never reopened as it never found a new permanent home; its collections were passed from one institution to
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another like a hot potato that nobody wanted. From 1988 to 1990, its materials were stored in a warehouse of the Texas State
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Library and Archives Center. From 1990 to 1992 the collection was held by the Helen Marie Taylor Museum in Waco,[6][7] but
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returned to temporary storage for two years. In 1994, an agreement with Hill College in Hillsboro placed the collection on
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display at the Texas Heritage Museum (formerly the Confederate Research Center) until 2000, when the agreement terminated.[8] The collection returned to temporary storage at Baylor University in Waco, where it was inventoried and
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catalogued. It then was stored in Fort Worth. During this time, items from the collection were loaned to a number of
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museums.[9]
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In 2002, the Haley Memorial Library and History Center in Midland agreed to house and make available to researchers the Museum's paper collection.[10] The rest of the collection is housed at the Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement, Texas,
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which opened in 2006.[11][12] The United Daughters of the Confederacy holds permanently one of the three seats on the
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Museum's Board of Directors.
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1. ^ a b c State Preservation Board of Texas. "History of the Capitol Visitors Center" . Retrieved August 4, 2018.
7. ^ "Local Members Travel for Museum Opening" . Lockhart Post-Register. August 2, 1990. p. 8.
2. ^ a b Daffan, Katie (August 6, 1925). "Texas Confederate
8. ^ "UDC [United Daughters of the Confederacy]" . New
Museum Is Valuable and Interesting" . Bryan Weekly
Braunfels Herald Zeitung. November 6, 1994. p. 23.
Eagle. p. 7. 3. ^ a b "Texas Confederate Museum. Fort Worth, Texas" . MuseumsUSA. February 2, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2018. 4. ^ "Historic General Land Office Photographs" . Texas State Preservation Board. Retrieved August 4, 2018. 5. ^ "Historic General Land Office Photographs" . Texas State Preservation Board. Retrieved August 4, 2018. 6. ^ Harriman, Cynthia L. (March 2, 1990). "The Texas Confederate Museum is moving to Waco in July" . Waco Citizen. p. 9.
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9. ^ Preston, Retta; Bell, Hilda Kelly; Harriman, Cynthia Loveless. "Texas Confederate Museum" . Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved August 2, 2018. 10. ^ Nita Steward Haley Memorial Library & J. Evetts Haley Research Center. "The Texas Confederate Museum Collection Index" . Retrieved August 4, 2018. 11. ^ Texas Civil War Museum (2006). "Visit the Museum" . Retrieved August 3, 2018. 12. ^ Texas Civil War Museum (2006). "About Us" . Retrieved August 3, 2018.
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