HOUSTON – A short-term lease signed this week by the Texas Historical Commission is giving the 1940 Air Terminal Museum a renewed chance at survival — and it puts an immediate stop to plans that would have led to artifacts being removed from the building.
The commission said the six-month agreement, which began July 1, is meant to buy time for a final round of evaluation to determine whether the historic airport terminal-turned-museum could eventually be folded into the state’s system of historic sites.
The museum, located in the former Houston Municipal Airport terminal built in 1940, has struggled financially and shut down in May. With the closure came a deadline to move out by the end of June, raising concerns among supporters that collections and displays could be dismantled or sold off…