Deep in the Vaults of Texas

8 Apr — 6 Sep 2017 at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, United States

26 August 2017

Tom Landry's fedora hat, H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Sports and Physical Culture

Deep in the Vaults of Texas: A Campus Collaboration brings together diverse artifacts from archives, museums, and repositories across The University of Texas at Austin campus.

Displayed at the LBJ Presidential Library, the exhibit showcases items from a wide range of time periods and locations and underscores the richness and depth of the university’s holdings – from early Texas arrowheads to Renaissance paintings to Jazz Age memorabilia.

LBJ Presidential Library

The core of the museum collection consists of personal objects owned, used, bought, or worn by the president and first lady, all donated by President Johnson under the Presidential Libraries Act (1955).

Museum profile

Location

Austin, United States

Founded in

1971

Pomo basket, ca. 19th century, woven vegetable fibers Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory

Peregrinus, 1948, papier-mâché, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin

Ceremonial Mask, Bakuba (Kuba) Zaire, Democratic Republic of Congo, wood and burlap with cowrie shells and beads. John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies.

Pomo basket, ca. 19th century, woven vegetable fibers Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory
Peregrinus, 1948, papier-mâché, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin
Ceremonial Mask, Bakuba (Kuba) Zaire, Democratic Republic of Congo, wood and burlap with cowrie shells and beads. John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies.

Peregrinus, 1948, papier-mâché, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin
Ceremonial Mask, Bakuba (Kuba) Zaire, Democratic Republic of Congo, wood and burlap with cowrie shells and beads. John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies.
Pomo basket, ca. 19th century, woven vegetable fibers Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory