Schedule a Tour or a Visit
2024 Western Roundup Show & Sale
Sept 5, 2024 – Oct 3, 2024
Solo art exhibits are presented by award-winning artists Jack Moss, Charlie Bullock, David Godfrey, Gary Ward, Matthew Rush, and Bob Penny. Workshops are available for Navarro College art students.
Contact Sharon Kidd at (903) 875-7642 to make reservations.
WELCOME OUR NEW CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS, RHETT KEARNS
Rhett Kearns has lived in Texas since 2021 and has previously served as a curator and historical interpreter for the Texas Historical Commission and the Georgia State Parks. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History from Eastern Washington University, a Master’s degree in Georgia Southern University, and interned with Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland. Rhett is dedicated to preserving history and telling the true story of the people who lived through it. He has written two dissertations on the Civil War and collects artifacts from the 1860s relating to both soldier and civilian life.
Come out and see the Museum’s exhibits Monday through Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 12pm-4pm, and get a glimpse of some of the items Rhett gets to interact with in his day-to-day work as the Museum’s Curator of Collections.
Civil War Exhibition
The Civil War collection at the Pearce Museum has more than 15,000 documents as well as a number of photographs and three-dimensional artifacts that directly relate to the period 1861 – 1865 and are original to that time period, or were written or made within the life of a participant in the American Civil War.
Hunter-Gatherer Exhibition
The Hunter-Gatherers of the Blackland Prairie gallery at the Pearce Museum has more than 44,000 artifacts related to Central Texas’s prehistoric period.
Western Art Exhibition
The Western Art collection at the Pearce Museum has 250 works of art in a realistic style that directly relate to the historic and modern American West.
Special Exhibit
“Navarro County’s Loughridge Family Civil War Experiences”
Pictured is James Roger Loughridge, a Civil War veteran, who was a lawyer and county judge in Navarro County at the time the Civil War broke out.
Glad to have stumbled upon this museum, it was fascinating and informative. Especially as our country seems to be presently very divided, it serves as a reminder to not repeat history.
Galleries
Civil War Exhibition
From the Collection:
Joseph B. Polley (CSA) – born October 27, 1840, Brazoria County, Texas; son of Joseph Henry Polley, who moved to Texas in 1821 with Stephen F. Austin as one of the “Old Three Hundred” colonists; graduated from Florence Wesleyan University in Florence, Alabama;enlisted 4th Texas Infantry, Co. F, “Hood’s Texas Brigade”; wounded at the Battle of Gaines Mill 1862; wounded at the Battle of Darbytown Road October 7, 1864; foot amputated as a result of the wound; discharged January 25, 1865; upon return to Texas studied law and admitted to the bar 1868; member of 16th Texas Legislature in 1879; married Martha Legette in 1866 and had four children; published his memoirs entitled “Hood’s Texas Brigade” in 1910; died in Floresville, Texas February 2, 1918.
Western Art Exhibition
The collection is both two and three-dimensional; including media such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera, and guache, as well as bronze and alabaster sculpture.
Featured Collection
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Testimonials
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.
10am - 5pm
Free entry
Getting here
Gift shop
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