Taylor Museum Projects

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POTENTIAL PROJECTS 

FOR THE 

YOUTH INNOVATION STUDIO

TEXAS MUSIC CAFE

E4YOUTH GROUP

STEAM

TIME CAPSULE

The Taylor Museum of Waco and McLennan County History is offering opportunities and mentorships for the following research and completion of projects through and for the various entities mentioned above and by the Jacob de Cordova Society in Bobby Horner’s communique:

• An archaeological field school on the historic grounds surrounding the Museum
• A focus on the life and achievements of Helen Marie Taylor including the establishment of the Museum
• The “Sea Monsters” of the Cretaceous Sea that inundated Central Texas 
• The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period found in Central Texas
• The megafauna of the Pleistocene with a trip to the Waco Mammoth National Monument
• The peopling of the region from 13,000 years ago to contact with the Anglo-Europeans
• The Spanish entradas into what was to become Texas 
• Encounters of the first explorers into Central Texas
• The Revolution and the Nation of Texas
• The founding of Waco and McLennan County
• The first “settlers” and the development of a community
• How Waco became a Crossroads both culturally and environmentally (and still is)
• Waco’s role during the Civil War and how the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth affected former slaves
• The importance of Waco during WWI
• What were the Depression, the CCC, the rise of Nazism, WWII and Waco’s contributions to the war effort?
• The impact of the GI Bill, suburbs, television, marketing and the new industries in Waco after WWII
• The Waco Tornado and the reconstruction
• The history of all the communities of McLennan County (even those that do not exist any longer)
• The Constitution and what the 250th anniversary means to us today
• What did the Davidians, Branch Davidians and Koreshians tragedy teach us?
• New transformations – the silos, SpaceX, plans for a re-envisioned downtown, etc., what does the future hold?

Also, the most popular music of each decade since 1776 and how do we present that in the experience modules in the Museum renovations?