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New exhibit featuring Texas maps coming to Bush Library

The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum has seen some of their best attendance in a decade, and a new exhibit should help with even more turnout.

Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State opens April 20.

The exhibit features maps dating between 1513-1957. The works in this exhibition are reproductions from the archival collection of the Texas General Land Office and Houston map collectors Frank and Carol Holcomb.

This exhibit traces the cartographic history of Texas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, through 26 maps and documents Mapping Texas features many of the most important, influential, and rare maps of Texas, the United States, and North America.

You can also still catch the Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion exhibit that goes on through next year. It features lots of hands-on machines designed by the renowned painter and inventor.

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Map of Texas with parts of the Adjoining States | by Texas General Land Office