“A Twenty Year Retrospective of the Museum”
6:00 Reception 6:30 Presentation
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos turns 20 in 2026 and will be celebrating this anniversary all year!
We are excited to have a speaker at our Spring Lecture who has been there since the beginning, Ed S. Mihalkanin, PhD.
In 1997, Dr. Mihalkanin and like-minded citizens of San Marcos became the founding board members determined to build a museum honoring our 36th president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. It took 9 years of hard work and determination but the museum opened its doors to the public on December 6, 2006 with a special speaker, Linda Baines Johnson, youngest of LBJ’s two daughters.
Dr. Mihalkanin will speak on “A Twenty Year Retrospective of the LBJ Museum” including the difficulties and highlights of developing a museum from the beginning. He served as President of the LBJ Museum Board of Directors from June 1997 to 2006 and again from 2012 to 2022.
Dr. Ed S. Mihalkanin is currently an Associate Professor, Political Science at Texas State University where he has taught since the early 1990s. In addition to his teaching and serving as a founder of the museum, Dr. Mihalkanin found the time and energy to serve as a City Council member for 12 non-consecutive years (1996 to 2006; 2016 to 2020). He earned his BA in 1979 from Bradley University in Peoria, IL, followed by a masters in International Affairs in 1985 and a PhD in 1991 at the American University in Washington, DC.
The LBJ Museum’s Spring Lecture is free and open to the public, we just ask that all attendees sign up for the event.
