Bandera is one of only seven towns selected from all the Texas towns that applied to participate in 2024-2025.
This traveling museum exhibit offers our rural community an opportunity to develop heritage
tourism and educate and share the evolution of rural America and the many stories, events, and
changes that have occurred over the past century. Our community has been creatng exhibits
and displays that share the history and stories that are uniquely Bandera. The exhibit dates are
June 21, 2025, through July 26, 2025, and will be housed at the Bandera Middle School
Cafetorium.
The five themes of the Crossroads Exhibit focus on: Rural America’s: Identity, Land,
Community, Persistence, and Change. The themes have been the guiding ideas for exhibits
developed for this project. The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibit that reflects the role of
agricultural and rural communities and explores changes that have occurred over the past
century. The exhibits explore the five themes and encourage us to “Think about it,” “Let’s Talk,”
“Let’s Watch,” “Let’s Listen,” and “Get Interactive.” These displays encourage the visitor to
reflect and understand causes and changes that impact the agricultural facets of our rural
economy, community life, and the future of small-town America.