Texas Music Pioneers Museum Exhibit

TEXAS MUSIC PIONEERS – 2019 ROTATING EXHIBIT

The Texas Music Pioneers Exhibit of the Texas Music Museum features over sixty Texas musicians in fourteen musical genres.  Learn about several of the earliest Texas musicians to contribute to the development of each the following categories of music: Blues, Classical, Conjunto, Country, Cowboy/Cowgirl, Gospel, Jazz, Orquesta, Pop, Ragtime, Rock, Soul, Tejano Vocalists, and Western Swing.  Displays include information about each musical genre, artists’ biographical information, artist memorabilia, antique recording cylinders, 78 rpm records, antique phonographs, radios and sheet music from Texas’ two earliest publishers, and QR codes that connect to online recordings which enable visitors to enjoy these musicians’ unique sounds.

The Texas Music Museum (TMM) is a nonprofit, all-volunteer museum, has been in existence for 35 years, and is staffed by knowledgeable volunteer docents.  The Museum has one permanent exhibit and one yearly rotating exhibit.  All exhibits, programs, and performances celebrate the diversity of Texas music. Exhibits are created from an archive of artifacts, documents and reference material relevant to the numerous traditions of Texas music that TMM continuously collects and preserves.   We encourage you to visit the Texas Music Museum!