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Heard-Craig Center for the Arts

McKinney, Texas

Art, Culture, Historic House

The Heard-Craig Center, established formally in 1970 as a fine arts hub, provides meeting space, education, artistic opportunities, and tours. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior listed as an official Texas landmark by the Texas Historical Commission, and designated as a local site for Smithsonian Traveling Poster Exhibits, the Heard-Craig Center for the Arts is an elegant, beautifully preserved mansion set in the heart of downtown McKinney, Texas. The Center holds the history of women's leadership and offers many educational events (art history lectures) for the benefit of the community and scholars.

North Texas History Center

McKinney, Texas

Culture, General, History, Historical Society

The North Texas History Center is the larget collection of North Texas history. We share with visitors in different changing exhibits the life of settlers that came to North Texas and settled. Our ongoing exhibits include Pioneering Roots, Cowboys and Cattledrives, and Texas' role in the Civil War. Future Special exhibits will be foucusing on different communities of people that have called Texas home, with exhibts on Black Texans,and Native Peoples already in development. NTHC is also working on a Texas Veterans Exhibit. It is the hope of the NTHC to allow today's Texans and all visitors the oppurtunity to learn about all Texas people that contributed to making Texas the great State it is.