THE LBJ MUSEUM OF SAN MARCOS
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 on Thursday, March 12 who was there at 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 nine years of hard work and determination but the museum opened its doors to the public on Dec. 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 from June 1997 to 2006 and again from 2012 to 2022.
Dr. Ed S. Mihalkanin is currently an Associate Professor of 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 2004; 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, D.C.
This Spring Lecture starts at 6:00 p.m. with a reception followed by the lecture at 6:30pm. The LBJ Museum’s Spring Lecture is free and open to the public. The museum, however, asks that all attendees sign up for the event either by calling the museum at 512-353-3300, emailing director@ LBJmuseum.com or visiting the museum’s
website at lbljmuseum. com/event/ The LBJ Museum is located on the Courthouse Square. The museum commemorates the formative role Lyndon Baines Johnson’s years as a college student and school teacher played in the landmark Great Society legislation he passed as the 36th President of the United States between November 1963 to January 1969.
The museum and their programs are always free to the public. Regular hours: Thursday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
