About Museum of the Big Bend

The Museum of the Big Bend is a museum on the campus of and governed by Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, United States that showcases the natural history, culture, and art of the Big Bend region of Texas. The Works Progress Administration built the original museum in 1937. The museum expanded in 2023 to double its original size.

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