The Texa Music Museum is a non-profit corporation that was founded in 1984 as a Texas Sesquicentennial project to develop support for the establishment of a Texa Museum Museum and performance center in Austin. TMM promotes and preserves Texas music by presenting two or three major exhibits a year in Austin, often with musical performances. The museum conducts research, collects photographs, artifacts, and documents relating to all aspects of Texas music and provides exhibits to other musems, schools, libraries, history centers, and other public facilities throughout the state. The Texas Music Museum is endorsed by all three major state music organizations: the Texas Music Association, the Texas Music Educators Associatin, and the Texas Music Teachers Association.
Collections cover all areas of Texas music and the artists therein comprised. Collections are represented by photographs, recordings, and literature. Approximately 300 Texas musicians are documented.
Collections are available for research
Besides standard exhibits, TMM offers a wide variety of music symposiums and music programs/ performances.