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Welcome to Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, right here in Austin, Texas. I'm Robert
Hicks, head of public relations. The museum is located just a couple of blocks from the
Texas capitol building; right across the street from the university of Texas campus. And as
you approach the building you'll see the six flags of Texas on fifty foot tall flagpoles,
and what's become kind of an iconic symbol here in Austin and in the state; the thirty
foot tall bronze star that really welcomes you to the Lonestar Plaza, and welcomes you
inside to the museum itself. As you enter the museum; the rotunda which is three stories
tall, you'll encounter a beautiful terrazzo of design on the floor that really depicts
the variety of peoples that you'll encounter when you embark on this journey of Texas history.
They're all sitting around a campfire, and and around the outside you'll see it says
born around the campfires of our past, this story of Texas, and that's really what we're
we're about here at the museum is telling that story. The main exhibits cover three
floors, more than seven hundred artifacts, almost twenty media and interactive displays
throughout the museum. Starts from the native peoples through their encounters with the
Europeans, colonization in Texas, the building the lone star identity in Texas, Texas as
a republic, statehood. And then on the third floor is creating opportunities, which looks
at various opportunities in Texas, from ranching to agriculture to oil of course, and beyond,
the space program, technology. One of the coolest things I think is Jack Kilby's notebook.
He was at Texas Instruments and created the semi-conductor. So a variety, from the old
cowboys and native peoples all the way to the space shuttle. You'll see it in the story
of Texas.