Schulenburg Historical Museum
About the Museum
The Schulenburg Historical Museum is a locally produced museum working to preserve the natural history of the Fayette Prairie of south Central Texas, and the history of interdependence between town and country life in Schulenburg and surrounding farming communities that cultivated the prairie landscape.
The purpose of SHM is to learn from our past in order to better shape our future. As has been anonymously well said, “How can we know where we’re going, if we don’t know where we’ve been."
The museum strives to preserve the memory and knowledge of the way of life of the pioneers who colonized this area of Texas, who were primarily from Spain, Great Britain, West Africa, Germany, and Bohemian and Moravia in Czechoslovakia, as well as information about regional New World culture of indigenous First Peoples of Turtle Island, which came to be called “America” by the Old World colonizers.
Such preservation is upheld as increasingly important since modern, artifical human technology continues to further separate human society more and more from any real sense of community and from the natural world, which not only tried, toughened and shaped, but also sustained our ancestors, upon whose shoulders we all now stand.
The same natural world continues to sustain us today as well, although we are increasingly unaware of our dependence upon it. If our world is also to sustain future generations of our children and grandchildren, then we must learn to value community and to care for nature by learning to recognize how it has shaped and sustains us, and how we impact the world through our human activity.
