West Texas Museum, or Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas. (original) (raw)
The Museum of Texas Tech University
Formerly The West Texas Museum
3301 4th Street
at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Indiana Avenue
Lubbock, Texas
by Sarah Reveley
The West Texas Museum, now known as The Museum of Texas Tech University, was designed to house the geological, paleontological, archaeological and historical collections of the West Texas Museum Association.
The present-day museum looks nothing like the original design pictured in the Centenary book. Plans for a three-story museum had been drawn, and in the summer of 1935, sixty-seven counties had agreed to pool their Texas Centennial interests for a regional museum and for thirty-five historical markers, but only the basement was completed because of lack of funds. The museum wasn�t completed for another 15 years.
The Museum now consists of the main Museum building, the Moody Planetarium, the Natural Science Research Laboratory, the research and educational elements of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, and the Val Verde County research site.
The main Museum complex is located at 3301 4th Street, at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Indiana Avenue. When you go, be sure and ask to see that 1936 basement. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/
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Centennial Museum Basement
From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence", State of Texas, 1938
From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence", State of Texas, 1938