2011… still showing
June 2011- May 13, 2012
"They Weren't Always White"—Wedding Attire from the Museum's Collection, Gallery 1.
This exhibition highlights numerous wedding, second-day, going-away, and other trousseau garments from the Museum’s Textiles Collection. Ranging in color from white, ivory, and ecru to brown, olive green, and navy blue, and spanning over 100 years–1830 to 1949–each of the garments is unique, yet representative of its contemporary fashions, with some individual touches. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Textiles collection.
Discover It! Case—“The Slaughter Sisters-in Law," Gallery 5.
This features the Slaughter sisters-in law's photographs and a handmade, white lace fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guard sticks. The Slaughter family and descendants had a major impact in the regional development of ranching, community growth, and civic and social advancements. Both C.C. Slaughter and his brother John founded historic ranches in the region: C.C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch (1898); and John Slaughter's U-Lazy-S Ranch (1901). Items on loan to the Museum from Mr. Bob Marcy.
Neighbors—Selections from the Art Division Collection, Gallery 4.
An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Art Division of the Museum of TTU. Neighbors are people who live near us: sometimes next door, sometimes down the block, and sometimes a mile or more away. Artists are neighbors. As they spend time with us, sometimes our likeness ends up in one of their images. In this small selection of art works, all by artist-neighbors from Texas or our neighbor to the west, New Mexico, perhaps you will find someone who looks familiar, who provided to you a helping hand, who lives down the road from you, or who you do not know in the least. Image: Nancy Palmer, Chicken Banquet, 1999. Woodcut. © Nancy Palmer Photograph courtesy MoTTU Art Division.
2012
JANUARY
January 28 - May 20 Extended Stay!!!
Speaking Volumes: Books and Ideas from 1250-1862, Special Exhibitions Gallery 7
Ancient and rare books, documents, and manuscripts from The Remnant Trust, Inc. The exhibition includes: Homer’s The Iliad; Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; Confucius’ The Morals of Confucius; Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Julius Caesar’s Invictissimi Imperatoris Commentaria; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Euclid’s The First Six Elements of Geometry; England’s Magna Carta; Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; and Cicero’s De Officiis.
January 29 - April 8
Windows to Heaven: Treasures from the Museum of Russian Icons, Gallery 3. A look into eternity!… This exhibition brings together a grouping of historically significant Russian Icons dating from 1590 to the present. St. Nicholas and St. George, Old Testament scenes, pictorial themes centered on the life of Jesus, and images of the Mother of God are well represented in this collection from the Museum of Russian Icons. Tour organized by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.
February
Opened February 3, First Friday@The Museum…
The Ice Age on the Southern Plains.
A new permanent gallery featuring megafauna from the Pleistocene Period of prehistory like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant camels, short-faced bears, and dire wolves. This exhibition is from the Museum's collections and reflects the local area's distant natural history past as revealed by ongoing research activities of the Museum of TTU at Lubbock Lake Landmark.
March
March 2 - May 6
The Year of the Girl—The Girl Scout Centennial, Explorium.
Exhibits of GSA uniforms, artifacts, memorabilia, photographs, and documents from 100 years of Girl Scouting. 
In cooperation with the…
APRIL
April 15 - June 30
Wizards of Pop: Sabuda and Reinhart, Gallery 2.
Celebrated children's books creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart are the best-known pop-up book artists working today. Wizards of Pop! Sabuda & Reinhart includes more than 80 images from 16 picture and pop-up books. Also, the exhibition features exciting two-dimensional artworks from books. The book art shows a variety of media and techniques. This exhibition is organized by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX, and is locally supported by the Helen Jones Foundation and the Museum of Texas Tech University Association.
May 4
The Magic of Pop-up Books by Bruce Foster, Gallery 101. Display in conjunction with the May 6 event "Bruce Foster Lecture and Pop-up Book Making Workshop." Examples of Mr. Foster's creations including pop-up Harry Potter books.
May 13 - July 22
America Celebrates! Quilts of Joy and Remembrance
This is a joyful, diverse, and sometimes touching look at how we see
ourselves as a nation. The exhibition of 58 art quilts from American fiber artists seeks
to find how we, as ordinary people, share the threads and traditions that tie Americans
together. The exhibition will also feature those traditions that Americans brought with
them as immigrants. Toured by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.
June
June 15 - November 4
On the Home Front, Gallery 1. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's collection. WWII Era clothing and artifacts.
June 15 - November 18
World War II on the Southern Plains (working title), Lubbock Gallery. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's collection. Photographs from the war years of WWII pertaining to the city of Lubbock.
June 15 - November 4
War Babies, Gallery 4. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Art collection. Works from the Museum Art collection by artists born during war years of WWII.
June 15-August 15
Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection, Balcony Gallery
The Becker Archive contains approximately 650 hitherto unexhibited and undocumented drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, 19th century artists who worked as artist reporters for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper observing, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the laying of the transatlantic cable in Ireland, the Chinese in the West, the Indian wars, the Chicago fire, and other aspects of 19th century American culture.
JULY
July 15 - September 9
Memories of WWII: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press, Galleries 2 & 3
Almost two hundred reporters and photographers fanned out around the globe to cover World War II for The Associated Press, the world's largest news service. Five reporters lost their lives. Seven others won Pulitzer Prizes, including Joe Rosenthal, who clambered up Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi to take the flag-raising photo (shown left) that became the emblem of American victory and one of the most famous photos of all time. As the main source of war news for most of the nation's newspapers, The AP offered Americans a daily view of the conflict through photographs by its own photographers and by photographers in the U.S. Armed Services, as well as images from the world press that otherwise would not have been seen. The best of these images make up this exhibition. Toured by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.
AUGUST
August 25 - November 18
Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight, Galleries 2 & 3
The dreams of flight, freedom, and the view from above inspired by the Wright brothers were not segregated, but for almost 50 years after they took to the skies, the paths to the training and expertise necessary to become a pilot were. The content of the exhibition is based on the newly published book of the same title by National Air and Space Museum curator, Von Hardesty. The show covers significant figures, events, and themes associated with African Americans in aviation and aerospace history. It documents the struggles of those individuals who were systematically barred from the ranks of military and civil aviation, and highlight the parallels between the struggles of these aviation pioneers and those of the civil rights movement. Among other topics, the exhibition explores black aviation firsts, barnstormers, aerobatics, long distance flights, the Tuskegee Airmen, integration of the U.S. Armed Services, Vietnam and Korean conflicts, commercial aviation, and the involvement of African Americans in the space program. TTU Health Science Center's Regent Dr. Bernard Harris is featured in this exhibition. A Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions (SITES) production; supported by MetLife Foundation.
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
December 9 - February 17, 2013
Covering America in the 1950s and 1960s: The Saturday Evening Post
