Brenham Heritage Museum


The Brenham Heritage Museum is a local history museum located in downtown Brenham, Texas. Exhibits and collections reflect a focus on the history and culture of the Brenham and Washington County area. The museum is located in the old US Post Office-Federal Building-Brenham, a National Register of Historic Places building. The museum operates a second site, the Bus Depot Gallery, in the Art-Deco Kerrville Bus Lines Depot of Brenham.

Origins

In 1991, the City of Brenham offered an historic building for use as a museum to the Brenham Heritage Museum, a non-profit organization in Brenham, Texas. A non-profit was established, some collections were acquired, funds were raised and the museum opened soon after.

Collections

The Brenham Heritage Museum has acquired the body of her collections from the citizenry of Brenham, Texas and the surrounding Washington County. A number of groups and organizations have provided the museum with significant portions of the collection:
The Brenham Heritage Museum is located in what was once the US Post Office for the City of Brenham. The building was constructed between 1914 and 1916. It remained the post office until the mid-1960s, when a new post office was built nearby. The old post office structure became a federal office building.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was added due to its notable Classical Revival architecture.