The State Legislature commissioned PRD’s design team to create a new kind of museum that would immerse Texans and visitors in an exciting learning experience, bringing them into contact with the people and places of the past, looking at history from the varied perspectives of the peoples who made it. Hailed as the first major new museum of the 21st century, the Texas State History Museum has received visitation nearly double the initial projections.
- Location: Austin, TX
- Timeline: 1997–2001
- Size: 35,000 sq.ft.
- Exhibit fabrication: Design Craftsmen, Inc.
- Media production: Pyramid Studios / BRC Imagination Arts
Features include:
- Object theaters that combine media and artifacts in multiperspective and bilingual storytelling
- Rotating displays of objects loaned from Texas museums
- Texas Timeline, a 70-foot interactive media wall
- Immersive natural and historical environments
- Bilingual audio guide including audio assist program
- Interactive and special effects theater programs
