Upcoming Events

Join The Bush Family Home State Historic Site in celebrating a "Blast from the American Past." Explore the historic home and see the display of American Flags used through our 250-year history. Make your own State of American flag and explain your choices. Learn what the colors of the American flag mean: Red for Valor, White for Purity, and Blue for Innocence. Enjoy a variety of activities and receive your own flag in preparation for July 4th!

Join us at our Permian Basin Honor Flight display on June 13 to learn more about how we honor veterans who served from 1941-1975, which includes WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, with a trip of a lifetime to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials built in their honor. The trip is expense free for 3 days and 2 nights for the veterans. We will have military plaques, crosses, coins, and more to sell. Supplies to make cards for veterans will be available. The Honor Flight will also have an exhibit at the Midland County History Museum, located at 200 N Main Street

Join us at the Midland County History Museum to learn more about the Texas Pecos Trail Region. The Texas Pecos Trail promotes heritage and cultural tourism for 22 counties in west and southwest Texas. This diverse region includes oil boom towns, rolling sand dunes, and remote ranches. Visitors can browse fascinating museums, forts, historical homes and state parks.

The High Sky Wing of the CAF and the Midland Army Air Field Museum will host a special program on June 13, 2026, about the role of the Midland Army Air Field Bombardier School during WW II. We will feature a Beech AT-11 bombardier training airplane that was actually based in Midland during the war. Attendees will be able to tour the airplane, and, for those young and small enough, they can sit in the bombardier seat and look through the then-top-secret Norden bombsight. Other vintage warbirds will be on display and our exhibit rooms (Fortress Europe, the Bush Mission, the Homefront, and the new Oil, Aviation, and Victory in WW II exhibit) will all be open. The formal program will begin at 11:00 am; the museum will be open from 10:00 to 3:00 pm.

Join the Daughters of the American Revolution as they "Open the Doors to Colonial History." Listen as the Town Crier tells of the local news and day's events. Meet Martha Washington and learn about her life with George Washington and the fight for American Independence. Meet Barbara Warlick Reinhardt, the wife and mother of Colonial Patriots. Learn about Colonial life; make colonial crafts; and play colonial games. Listen as local students read their essays about the Founding Fathers. Attendees will have the opportunity to sign their own copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Join the Arts Council of Midland for an exclusive sneak peek open house at the historic Kara & W. F. Scarborough House, built circa 1906 and located on Midland's original Main Street. Guided tours will begin at the top of each hour, starting at 1:00 PM. Visitors will learn about the rich history of the home, the Scarborough family, and the legacy that later expanded to include the Linebery family. Before or after your tour, guests are invited to explore the FMH Foundation Sculpture Garden on the property, featuring 15 large-scale sculptures by Texas artists on permanent display. Families are welcome — children under 12 can enjoy a fun, interactive scavenger hunt based on the sculptures throughout the garden.

Step inside this fascinating little house to learn how people lived 126 years ago (halfway back to the days of the American Revolution!) when Midland was a young city. The home is furnished as it was when the Brown family moved into it in 1900. Learn about gingerbread, pocket pictures, and iceboxes. Look for all the things that people did not have then. How many can you name? Hear the story of the Zachary Taylor Brown family and how he built this unique little house. End you visit with a look at the grape vines like those Mr. Brown used to make the wine he served to his guests. The house will be open for tours from 12 to 2 pm. The tours are free.

Throughout the museum large panels describe life and events in Midland during the years from the 1800’s to the present. They were created by Midland College students, members of the Phi Theta Kappa honors fraternity. They are located  near museum exhibits matching the decades described in the panels. Begin in the corner room, “Paleo Midland”, with the bones of a woman who lived near Midland over 9,000 years ago and a discussion of the Native Americans who were the area's first residents. Time-travel to the early 1880’s when this land was a tall-grass prairie settled by the cattle and sheep ranchers who founded Midland and created a ranching community that became a livestock shipping center until oil was discovered in the 1920’s.  Docents will describe the exhibits and the panels discussing this history, as well as two panels at the entrance and exit of the crossover hall discussing Midland during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The next large room describes life during World War II. Children of veterans will talk about the stories their parents told them; another has letters his GI father sent him during the war years. Exhibits and posters tell what life was like in Midland during war, including movies, radio programs and more. End your visit in the front room where the panels tell how Midland grew from about 6,500 people at the end of the war to more than 150,000 – as it became the center of American oil production, home to culture, education and health services.

Join Basin PBS on Saturday, June 13, at the historic Ritz Theater in downtown Midland for a special community screening of selected excerpts from Ken Burns’s The American Revolution. Featuring excerpts from all six episodes, this military-history-focused presentation is thoughtfully woven to explore the tactics, leadership, battles, and conflicts that shaped the Revolutionary War. Doors open at 2:00 p.m. so guests can get settled, enjoy our complimentary Liberty Tea and Popcorn Bar, and take part in Revolutionary War trivia at 2:15 p.m., with prizes, before the screening begins at 3:00 p.m. Guests will also be entered for a chance to win The American Revolution, the hardcover book by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward. Join us for an engaging afternoon of history, community, and conversation. RSVP: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/kVkWYwXVsx

The Haley Memorial Library & History Center will host a campus-wide Open House at 3:00 PM for the public to learn how Western History is being preserved and exhibited right here in Midland, Texas. Founded by western historian J. Evetts Haley, the Haley Library will celebrate its 50th anniversary of opening in Midland in July of 1976. The library's collections of historical research material, western fine art and artifacts reveal the efforts of pioneers that settled this community in the late 1880s. The newly completed Holt Research Center, housing all of the Haley's research collections, will be open for guided tours and viewing the state-of-the-art archival facility. Refreshments will be available and staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Join Midland Community Theatre for its annual fundraiser and 78th Season of Summer Mummers: Treachery at the Tea Party. The fundraiser is held from June 5th to August 29th every Friday and Saturday (except Fourth of July weekend.) MCT's current season "Becoming America: The Stories That Make Us" was selected in participation with American/Texas 250, including the theme for this year's Summer Mummers. Summer Mummers, a Permian Basin tradition since 1949, consists of three parts: the Melodrama, the Moviola, and the All American Olio — oh, and popcorn, lots of popcorn. The best way to explain it: It can't be explained... It must be experienced! Come celebrate with us!

Midland County will host a special ceremony to unveil a bronze plaque featuring Lt. Col. William B. Travis’s historic “Victory or Death” letter, written during the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The installation is part of a statewide initiative led by the Alamo Letter Society to place replicas of the letter at courthouses across Texas, preserving this powerful symbol of courage and sacrifice for future generations.