{"id":478473,"date":"2026-10-27T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478473\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:56:08","slug":"humble-city-council-approves-funding-boost-for-humble-museum-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478473\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble City Council approves funding boost for Humble Museum | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhumbletx.gov\/city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Humble City Council<\/a> members approved a $20,000 funding increase for the Humble Museum during the Oct. 22 council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>With the increase, the city of Humble will now provide $100,000 in funding to the museum for fiscal year 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Jason Stuebe said the funding increase will help museum officials deal with rising operating costs.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n<p>Humble Museum Executive Director Robert Meaux thanked the council for the increased budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate all the funding y\u2019all have given us over the years, and we hope we represent the city well in what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Meaux said.<\/p>\n<p>Humble Mayor Norman Funderburk said he was proud of the work museum officials had achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just ecstatic with having the museum we have that serves the community, and it\u2019s just a blessing for us all,\u201d Funderburk said. \u201cIt\u2019s very important to us and our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some context<\/p>\n<p>The Humble Museum marked its 50th anniversary in July, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/lake-houston-humble-kingwood\/nonprofit\/humble-museum-marks-50-years-of-preservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">previous reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1976, the museum was housed in two locations before moving to its current space\u2014the former Charles Bender High School extension\u2014Meaux said. In addition to its staple exhibits, the museum hosts rotating exhibits, features a gift shop and houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humblegen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Humble Area Genealogical Society<\/a>\u2019s library.<\/p>\n<p>Funded almost entirely by the city of Humble, the museum also receives money through gift shop sales and donations, Meaux said. The museum employs three docents, hosts educational field trips and is led by a 12-member board.<\/p>\n<p>From 2021 to 2025, the museum&#8217;s annual number of visitors increased by more than 78%, peaking at over 3,500 visitors in 2024, per museum data. Admission is free, and the museum is open Wednesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humble City Council members approved a $20,000 funding increase for the Humble Museum during the Oct. 22 council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,1542,17040,20478,17042,161585,20477,20480],"class_list":["post-478473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble","tag-humble-city-council","tag-humble-museum","tag-jason-stuebe","tag-museum-funding","tag-norman-funderburk","tag-robert-meaux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}