Traveling Museum | Reservation Request Form
 

Tours may be scheduled during regular museum hours,
Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
or Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Handicapped Accessible
Free Admission except for Organized Tours

Organized Tours - $1 per person donation
Donation includes admission to all three Denton County Museums
Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum
Bayless-Selby House Museum
Denton County African American Museum

For further information or to schedule a tour, call or email
Gretel L'Heureux, Tourism and Education Director
940-349-2854 or gretel.l'heureux@dentoncounty.com.

The organized tour includes the Museum,
the Commissioners Courtroom,
the basement area (that housed the holding cells for the
Sheriff's Department in the early 1900s),
and the outside of the building including the fossils in the limestone
and John B. Denton's grave.

The entire tour takes about 45 minutes.
Therefore, we do not schedule tours
after 3:30 on Monday through Friday
or after 2:00 on Saturday.

Since the Commissioners Court meets on Tuesdays in the Courtroom,
tours are not generally scheduled on that day.

You are welcome to visit the Museum at any time,
but if you want a tour, please contact the museum in advance.

For further information or reservations, call or email
Gretel L'Heureux, Tourism and Education Director
940-349-2850 or gretel.l'heureux@dentoncounty.com.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

The tours are suitable for teaching about different aspects of Denton County as well as other artifacts:

• Denton County Communities
• Historic African American Families of Denton County
• Historic Hispanic Families of Denton County
• Folk Art, including Pecan Art by B. W. Crawford
• Decorative arts, including the American Pressed Glass from the collection of Nettie Jo Cummings and Thimbles from the Collection of Dr. Bethel Caster
• Folk and decorative arts, including the dolls from the collection of Gustine Weaver
• Ceramic arts including the Southwest American Indian Pottery Collection including pottery from the Casa Grandes area in Mexico, prehistoric pottery from Mexico and the southwestern United States, Pueblo pottery from New Mexico and Arizona, and pottery from Texas
• Weaponry including weapons similar to those used in historic Denton County, World War I and World War II, Texas Rangers, and a section of the Berlin Wall.
• Decorative arts including furniture and artifacts from early Denton County

The tours can be adapted for grades K-12.

Please contact the Education and Tourism Director to discuss the TEKS that are appropriate for each grade level. Depending on the grade level, the tours are appropriate for teaching multicultural, history, social studies, reading and language, writing, fine and decorative arts, and some science and mathematical skills.

The tours are free and open to any group including public and private schools, senior citizen groups, day care centers, and other community groups. Each tour takes about 45 minutes.

Scheduling

Groups are encouraged to schedule ahead of the requested date. The months of October, November and early December, March, April, and May are especially busy, so we encourage you to plan ahead so that we can schedule the requested time. For example, many schools now make their requests in September for much later in the school year.

For further information or reservations, call or email
Gretel L'Heureux, Tourism and Education Director
940-349-2854 or gretel.l'heureux@dentoncounty.com.

See the specific links for more information about each of the Traveling Museums.