Latest (only?) guide to Texas museums is handy & priced for all

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Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 21, 2011 -- Where else but in Texas can one glimpse a Picasso original in jail, 1,000 artistic toilet seats or a hat made of barbed ware? And where can visitors stroll through a human body or sit in the middle of a hurricane, pilot the Space Shuttle or see a submarine burst through a front lawn?*

Texas writer Allan Kimball has put to good use his decades crisscrossing the state by creating a guide to one of his passions: The region’s most intriguing museums, some world famous, others little-known gems just ready to be discovered.

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Latest (only?) guide to Texas museums is handy & priced for all

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Profiled in Texas Museums of Discovery (Great Texas Line Press; $5.95) are institutions that maintain the state’s cultural distinctiveness while displaying some of the nation’s best exhibited paintings and sculpture from around the world, or promote pure Lone Star fun.

From the world famous to the most obscure, Kimball included museums that do more than just show things to visitors. They must actively engage them. So such renowned collections as Fort Worth’s Kimball Museum of Art and Houston’s Menil are detailed along with the likes of Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum and McLean’s Devil Rope Museum.

Even lifelong Texas residents will discover something new, and then keep this pocket-sized, value-priced guide in their glove compartment for when they hit an unfamiliar town.

Kimball built a career as an award-winning reporter and editor at the Pasadena Citizen, the Houston Post, and the San Antonio Express-News before founding the Hill Country Sun magazine and writing a slew of Western novels. His travel books include Big Bend Guide and Texas: 107 Best Walks.

Texas Museums of Discovery is part of the sixth in the Texas Pocket Guide series. See www.greattexasline.com to view all. In keeping with its socially conscious approach, Great Texas makes an effort is made to engage Texas writers, designers, photographers and editors forced out of daily journalism by the newspaper industry crisis.

The new titles is available from Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, Booksamillion.com, Sid Richardson Museum and its non-profit e-commerce site www.sidrmuseum.org, Amon Carter Museum, and numerous independent book, gift and museum shops around Texas. It also can be ordered from www.greattexasline.com.

More information can be found online at http://www.greattexasline.com

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