There are two museums in Round Rock. One, a small one, is the old Palm House which fronts the RR Chamber of Commerce. The city owns the land that the museum/Chamber sits on, so there is some support that way.
A new fire museum was put up in Old Settler's Park at Palm Valley last fall. This section of the park is owned by the Old Settler's Assn. They are also slowly reconstructing a 1880s type village and have done a great job so far. The library had maintained some of the archives, as well as the 1900s vintage hand pumper truck. We have placed the truck in the museum on permanent loan. The city retains ownership of that wonderful vintage piece that the city renovated about 11 years ago when there was still a VFD. I guess a third museum might be the old Hopewell School. This school was the African American school pre-1964. The ISD moved it to the RRHS/Administration campus, renovated it, and it contains some memorabilia from that period, provided by the former students. So, the ISD, a public agency, is providing the maintenance and property. Dale Dale Ricklefs, Library Director Round Rock Public Library 216 E. Main Street, Round Rock, Texas 78664 512-218-7010; 218-7061 (fax); [email protected] Go to Facebook, and become a fan of Round Rock Public Library Visit our website at: http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/library We're on Twitter at RoundRockPL -------------------------------------------------------------- If you get a "mailbox full" or some form of message identifying delivery problems, please call me at one of the numbers above. Thank you! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Mahaffey Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ctls-l] FW: libraries & museums Does your city have a museum? Aside from La Grange (in which the museum, archives, and library are all in one building), who else out there has a museum that is run by a unit of local government (city, county, etc.)? If there is a non-government sponsored museum, who operates it? Do any city/county funds go to help support it? Has your library ever been asked to take over & staff or fund a museum? How about those in historical homes? Thanks. Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net<http://www.ctls.net> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 Are there any libraries in our system that have museums in their towns? If so, who oversees the museums? Are any of the libraries involved in museum operations?
