The Nelson Puett Foundation Republic of Texas Museum
The Nelson Puett Foundation Republic of Texas Museum will open in January 2024. The Museum’s mission is to educate visitors about Texas history using voices, exhibits, artifacts, and written descriptions. Explore Texas history from the 16th-century exploration through annexation by the United States in 1846. Listen to the experiences of thirteen pioneering women as their personal accounts describe life during pre-Republic through annexation.
Watch this space for special events and exhibits following the Grand Opening this January.
Museum Pricing
Meeting Rooms and Special Event Venue
In addition to meeting rooms suitable for hosting conferences and symposiums, a large multi-purpose space and adjacent catering kitchen is available to DRT members and other organizations.
Meet the Pioneer Women of Texas
The Republic of Texas Museum will tell the story of early Texas from the pre-colonial era through the Republic and statehood – as much as possible through the lives of the women who lived during each historical period.
Visitors will tour sequential areas with unique messaging and exhibits supported by relevant museum materials including:
- American artifacts
- Deeds of land
- Personal letters
- Portraits
- Spurs
- Sabers
- Period clothing
- Military memorabilia from the battles at Gonzalez and San Jacinto
- Dioramas
Plan your visit
Additional materials may be curated quarterly for display from among the 38,000 documents, books, maps, letters, and other artifacts held by the DRT Library Collection in San Antonio.
Eleven women will be featured in the initial installation.
• Video of the Pre-Republic Era, about 1590-1824: Jane Long
• Mexican Texas, 1819-1835: Doña Patricia de la Garza de Leon, Emily Austin Bryan Perry, Sylvia Hector Webber
• Texas Revolution, 1835-1836: Susanna Wilkinson Dickinson, Dilue Rose Harris, Francisa Alvarez, Cynthia Ann Parker
• Republic of Texas, 1836-1846: Rebecca Jane Fisher, Angela Eberly, Mary Ann Adams Maverick
