BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM INC

We aim to act as an example for rural museums across the nation, by promoting the arts and heritage of our community in a reliable, professional, and dynamic way. By doing this, we can serve our history, or culture, and our community to the best of our ability.

We strive to meet best industry practices and museum accreditation standards in all we do. We seek partners for every project. We engage with local shareholders at every turn. We seek to make our content honest, relative to our audience, and provocative. We never turn down a potential to create a new relationship, and do our best to help our colleagues at other museums.

We are a small organization, but our staff is experienced and well-educated. We have some powerful partners, and a great collection. We are well-funded (enough to stay open indefinitely), and enjoy the use of a modest endowment. We have support from city and county governments. We occupy a great location, in an historic building, in the center of the fastest-growing geographical region in the United States.

We are one of the 1%, those museums that have a complete and digitized catalogue.

We have an international network of partners contributing content and objects to our exhibition work.

We have partnerships with some of the finest art galleries in the US, with the promise of providing our gallery with the best contemporary art.

We have engaged in nationwide projects to create heritage monuments for low cost.

There are many communities in our region without any access to historical preservation services of any kind. They have no repository for material cultural heritage, no gallery, and no organization to rely on for advice or assistance. We would like to endow a travelling team of museum professionals to lend assistance to small communities across our region.

We would also like to expand our centralized collections storage facility by acquiring a secure, offsite building.