Museum

Dunham Bible Museum

Houston · Harris County · Dedicated 1997 · THC Atlas #4200001165

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About this site

Dunham Bible Museum is a museum in Houston, Harris County, dedicated in 1997. It is one of 22 museums documented in Harris County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 827 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.6928, -95.5144 near Houston. The nearest cataloged historic site is Museum of Southern History (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Museum of American Architecture and Decorative Arts, Chinese Texans and Civil Rights, and Emanu El Memorial Park.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200001165. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Dunham Bible Museum began in 1997 when Houston Baptist University purchased a collection of rare American Bibles and Christian books assembled over 30 years by Indiana collector Jonathan Byrd. It moved into the Morris Cultural Arts Center in 2008 and took its current name. Among its treasures are a first-edition 1611 King James Bible, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the 1782 Aitken Bible (the first English Bible printed in America), a Bible flown on Apollo 14, and one of only eleven known copies of the 1631 'Wicked Bible.'

Sources: hc.edu hc.edu

📍 29.6928, -95.5144 · Houston, Harris County

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