Viet Nam War Museum Murals

Detail of Vietnamese Market section of Mural.



Another section of the mural as along the stairway leading up to the museum.

In 1990, Alex Rubio and I painted a series of murals inside the Viet Nam War Museum, which used to be located across the street from the Alamo. It hadn't been around very long at the time we were working there but it had a wide variety of exhibits ranging from uniforms, equipment, scale model scenes and a theater where they showed documentary films of the Viet Nam War. The museum staff were mostly volunteers, all of whom were veterans of that war. Interestingly enough, though, it was later discovered that the director of the museum was not a vet at all. I've got the article somewhere and I'll post it as soon as I find it.

Alex and I were proud of the work we did there but sadly, the museum moved to a different location and the walls that we painted on were demolished for the new tenants that would occupy the building. I'm not sure if the museum exists anymore but it was a unique museum set in the Alamo plaza, an area of great historical significance that most Texans consider a sacred. It's mostly become a place that is today dominated by tourist trap shops, rides and attractions that have no meaning and serve no purpose other than revealing how easily community leaders allow themselves to fall prey to the corporate siren song.