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Bandera Museum to Receive THF Grant
Bandera's Frontier Times Museum is the
latest beneficiary of a grant from the Texas
Historical Foundation's Jeanne R. Blocker
Endowment.
The Frontier Times Museum was opened
in 1933 by J. Marvin Hunter, publisher of
a newspaper and magazine about life on
the Texas frontier. For nearly 60 years,
Hunter collected data, artifacts, and stories
from frontier days. His collection grew, but
it was never well organized, as Hunter
stored piles of material on the floors,
nailed things to the wall, and even resorted
to using the ceiling.
Realizing that he needed a space for the
ever-growing collection, Hunter built a
museum in 1933; it was financed with his
own money, which he raised by selling stories
and books about Texas heroes and outlaws.Hunter's widow operated the museum
after his death, until 1960, when she sold
it to a foundation. That group, the Doane
Foundation, remodeled the museum and
added a Gallery of Western Art. Though
the foundation's board has successfullyadded living history programs and free
monthly seminars to bring the museum
into the mainstream of community life in
Bandera, the museum collection still needed
attention.
Turning to the Texas Historical
Foundation, the Frontier Times Museum
won a grant from the Blocker Endowment,
which is designed to aid rural communities
with populations under 30,000.
The Frontier Museum will use the
financial assistance from THF to conduct
a first-ever inventory of the collection; an
assessment of artifacts to identify those in
need of cleaning and stabilization or
immediate professional conservation;
complete documentation of each artifact,
including donor, provenance, age, use,
and location; and creation of a database
with easily accessed information about
each artifact.
The Bandera museum had 10,000 visitors
last year and expects to receive as
many as 12,000 this year. Museum officials
believe that a better organization system of
identifying and recording its artifacts willenhance the experience of all museum
goers and historical researchers.
The Texas Historical Foundation board
of directors administers several endowments
that are meant to empower communities
and organizations to save their
own part of Texas. Grant applications are
initially reviewed each quarter by a committee,
which makes a recommendation
to the full THF board. Grant deadlines are
the first of June, September, December,
and March.
At present, THF is mainly seeking grant
applications for archeological and rural
preservation projects; requests for smaller
amounts, generally under $5,000, are in
order.
For a downloadable grant application,
visit www.texashistoricalfoundation.org,
and click on the grants link. The site also
contains a list of previously funded preservation
projects for review by all grant
applicants.
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