The Nave Museum

The Nave Museum Our mission: To enrich, enlighten, and educate the Crossroads area through visual and cultural art. We look forward to seeing you!
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The oldest art museum in the Crossroads area, The Nave Museum features five to seven diverse and compelling exhibits each year, both classical and modern, ranging in styles from portraiture and maintains a gallery of landscapes by celebrated Texas artist Royston Nave (1886-1931).


'PAY WHAT YOU WANT!"
Enjoy our exhibits and decide what you would like to give to support our mission. Anyone interes

ted in becoming a Member can contact The Nave by calling 361-575-8228, emailing [email protected] or simply join at the door. VRMA / The Nave gratefully acknowledge our sponsors:


Nave Sponsors:
Victoria Television Group, City of Victoria, Armstrong Warehouse & Transfer, Glazier’s, The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation.

Clear blue skies and vibrant flower fields are on display in our current exhibit:Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynsk...
05/27/2026

Clear blue skies and vibrant flower fields are on display in our current exhibit:

Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski “Bluebonnets” 🪻

Klotzman's gorgeous oil paintings showcase her passion for nature in every visible stroke. While Korczynski’s photography captures the beauty of many different wildflower fields throughout Texas. State pride is something both artists explore in their works, such as Klotzman’s “State of Wildflowers” painting.

Take a look at the vibrant details of each individual flower in her work! It’s a beautiful display of the natural beauty of Texas. View this piece in person, and much more when you visit The Nave Museum! Stop by today to view “Bluebonnets” on display until June 12th!

Art Pictured:

State of Wildflowers
Mary Lou Klotzman
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36 x 1 3/4

Visit us at 306 W Commercial St, Victoria, TX 77901
Admission is Free!
Hours of Operation:
Tue - Fri: 12:00 - 5:00pm
Sat - Sun: 12:00 - 4:00pm
Monday: Closed

‼️ REMINDER‼️Registrations are still open for our Passport to Art: Summer Camp at the Nave!We have only 7 open spots lef...
05/26/2026

‼️ REMINDER‼️

Registrations are still open for our Passport to Art: Summer Camp at the Nave!
We have only 7 open spots left for Session I of our summer camp!

Join us for lessons and art activities centered around the art and cultures of different countries from around the world. The kids will use a wide variety of materials as they craft, paint, sculpt and more! They’ll also receive an exclusive Passport to Art passport where they will collect stickers and stamps to commemorate every country they learned about. And last but not least, they’ll get to eat authentic snacks and foods from each country of the day! Each day will bring a fun, new artistic adventure around the world! 🌎

Here is a sneak peak at some of the countries we will be covering in Session I
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For more information or to register your kids today, click the link below!
https://navemuseum.org/art-education-programs/kids-summer-art-program/

Registrations are open for our last FREE Children's Art Experience Class of our current exhibit!Join us on Saturday, May...
05/23/2026

Registrations are open for our last FREE Children's Art Experience Class of our current exhibit!

Join us on Saturday, May 30th at 10 AM!

The kids will be working with real pressed flowers once again, this time to make a unique springtime sun catcher craft. To celebrate the end of spring, they’ll use pressed flowers, paper plates and transparent wax paper to make sun catchers to hang in their windowsills, the sunlight will illuminate their vibrant colors. 🌸

‼️Deadline to sign up is 5 PM Friday 5/29‼️

Sign up your kid today for a fun morning of art and creativity at The Nave by using the link below! 👇🏻

https://navemuseum.org/art-education-programs/free-children-s-art-experience-classes/

We recently held our last Nave-Vine Afterschool Art class for the semester! Summer is on the horizon and the students go...
05/21/2026

We recently held our last Nave-Vine Afterschool Art class for the semester! Summer is on the horizon and the students got a taste of some summer fun with their last activity of the semester, making mini paper plate beaches! 🏝️

They got to customize their beach however they wanted. Adding beach chairs, buried treasure marked with an X, a beach campfire and much more! Their crafts will be a reminder of all the fun art we’ve made together throughout the spring semester. We hope all of our Nave-Vine Afterschool Art students have an amazing Summer! We’re very excited to make more art with The Vine School students very soon!

At our latest Children’s Art Experience class, the kids had so much fun making art in the fresh springtime air, coloring...
05/19/2026

At our latest Children’s Art Experience class, the kids had so much fun making art in the fresh springtime air, coloring and drawing by the Nave Museum’s garden! Using the garden and the art of Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski as their inspiration, they used color pencils to capture the colors and shapes of the flowers from their perspective. They did an amazing job including the tiny details of the petal shapes and even the bees and butterflies that visit our garden. 🦋

Lastly, they used chalk to decorate the museum’s walkway with beautiful flowers. It perfectly matched the springtime art the awaits inside. We’re always happy to make art with everyone in our community! We hope you’ll join us at our next Children’s Art Experience, coming soon on May 30th! 🌸

Our latest Art Experience: Teen Edition class was a dynamic evening full of creativity! The teens did amazing drawing th...
05/17/2026

Our latest Art Experience: Teen Edition class was a dynamic evening full of creativity! The teens did amazing drawing the flowers and plants from the museum garden with detail and color! 🌼

They also had a lot of fun sculpting different flowers both big and small. Inspired by the wildflower artworks of Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski, they took inspiration from nature to make beautiful springtime art outside surrounded by nature.

We’re happy to announce more Teen Art Experience classes will be coming soon in the future. Now once a month during each exhibit, get your teen ready to make art with us at The Nave! We’ll be announcing the date of our next class soon!

See the colors of Texas wildflowers away from the heat in our current exhibit:Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski “...
05/14/2026

See the colors of Texas wildflowers away from the heat in our current exhibit:

Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski “Bluebonnets” 🪻

Klotzman’s wildflower paintings transport viewers to a vibrant world of nature inspired by the many landscapes of the artist’s life. While Korczynski’s photographs offer a personal window into the various colorful fields and country roads of Texas, all captured through the professional lens of a camera. Take a look at the way Korczynski captured the quiet beauty of this foggy bluebonnet field!

There’s so much more to see when you visit The Nave Museum! Stop by today to view “Bluebonnets” on display until June 12th!

Art Pictured:

FNC 94A
Richard Korczynski
Photograph
16 x 24

Visit us at 306 W Commercial St, Victoria, TX 77901
Admission is Free!
Hours of Operation:
Tue - Fri: 12:00 - 5:00pm
Sat - Sun: 12:00 - 4:00pm
Monday: Closed

2 Days left to register for our FREE Children’s Art Experience Class AND our FREE Art Experience: Teen Edition Class!Chi...
05/13/2026

2 Days left to register for our FREE Children’s Art Experience Class AND our FREE Art Experience: Teen Edition Class!

Children’s Art Experience on May 16th!
and
Art Experience: Teen Edition on May 15th!

Come and make some art at The Nave Museum! We’ll be making art inspired by the works of Mary Lou Klotzman and Richard Korczynski. In the spirit of spring, both our kids’ class and our teen class will be making art outside by The Nave’s garden! 🌸

Sketching and coloring the flowers in the garden will be the main activity for both classes, kids will use color pencil while teens will use pastels. For their second activity, kids will get to use chalk to make wildflower art on The Nave’s walkway leading up to the building, while teens will get to use clay to sculpt flowers. 🪻

Registration is always free!
Registration Limit is 25 students per class!

Sign up your child or teen today using either link below!👇

Children's Class: https://navemuseum.org/art-education-programs/free-children-s-art-experience-classes/

Teen Class: https://navemuseum.org/art-education-programs/free-art-experience-teen-edition/

05/13/2026

We had an amazing evening yesterday with members of the Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas, at our Girl Scouts: Art at The Nave event!

Take a look at this amazing reel they made showing off the beautiful landscape art that the girls painted. We’re very excited for our future collaborations with the Girl Scouts to bring them more art education and activities! 🎨

Over at the Boys and Girls club, we brought their students a unique activity centered around the art of beautiful writin...
05/11/2026

Over at the Boys and Girls club, we brought their students a unique activity centered around the art of beautiful writing; calligraphy! The students got to use brushes and ink to practice painting symbols from a traditional Philippine writing system called Baybayin. They loved getting to write as many words and sentences as they could!

They first practiced with pencil before trying out the ink calligraphy. Some words they liked to write were dog, cat, moon and the sentence “I love art”! They were very excited to try writing in another language. Calligraphy can be done with any language, to make a masterpiece out of any sentence.

Address

306 W. Commercial Street
Victoria, TX
77901

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+13615204458

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