List of museums in West Texas

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The list of museums in West Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Included are nonprofit art galleries and exhibit spaces. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

West Texas

West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semiarid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas.

The counties included are Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Dickens, Eastland, Ector, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Glasscock, Hale, Haskell, Hockley, Howard, Hudspeth, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jones, Kent, Kimble, King, Knox, Lamb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Midland, Mitchell, Motley, Nolan, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Runnels, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Upton, Ward, Winkler, and Yoakum.

Museums in West Texas, listed by county

Andrews - Brown

List of museums in Andrews - Brown counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Muleshoe Heritage Center		Muleshoe	Bailey	Ranch house, the ranch cookhouse and bunkhouse and a log cabin	[1]
Borden County Museum		Gail	Borden	Local history	[2]
Barton Warnock Visitor Center		Brewster	Brewster	Big Bend National Park	[3]
Big Bend National Park Visitor Centers		Brewster	Brewster	Big Bend National Park	[4]
Hallie Stillwell Hall of Fame Museum		Marathon	Brewster	Life of Texas woman rancher Hallie Stillwell, member of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame	[5]
Museum of the Big Bend		Alpine	Brewster	Part of Sul Ross State University, history and cultural heritage of the Big Bend area	[6]
Blanket Historical Museum		Blanket	Brown	Artifacts, memorabilia, family history research center	[7]
Brown County Museum of History		Brownwood	Brown	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[8]
Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Museum and Visitor Center		Brownwood	Brown	Railroad	[9]

Callahan - Dickens

List of museums in Callahan - Dickens counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Baird Texas T & P Depot Museum		Baird	Callahan		[10]
Callahan County Pioneer Museum		Baird	Callahan	Located in the basement of the Callahan County courthouse	[11]
Robert E. Howard Museum		Cross Plains	Callahan	Home of and museum about Robert E. Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian, NRHP	[12]
Woody's Classic Cars and Baseball Museum		Cross Plains	Callahan		[13]
Texas Last Frontier Museum		Morton	Cochran	Housed in the 1957 Masonic Temple	[14]
Whiteface Museum		Whiteface	Cochran	Housed in the 1926 Whiteface Hotel, featurers local history	[15]
Fort Chadbourne		Bronte	Coke	Restored and ruins of the mid 19th-century frontier fort that was also a stage stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail, visitor center with artifacts	[16]
Earnest and Dorothy Barrow Foundation Museum		Eola	Concho	Local history	[17]
Don Freeman Memorial Museum		Eden	Concho	Local history	[18]
Museum of the Desert Southwest		Crane	Crane	Local history exhibits	[19]
Crockett County Museum		Ozona	Crockett	American West period displays, local and regional history	[20]
Fort Lancaster		Sheffield	Crockett	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, Texas State Antiquities Landmark	[21]
Crosby County Pioneer Museum		Crosbyton	Crosby	Local history	[22]
Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum		Crosbyton	Crosby	creationism	[23]
Ralls Historical Museum		Ralls	Crosby	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[24]
Clark Hotel Museum		Van Horn	Culberson	AKA Culbertson County Museum, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[25]
Frijole Ranch Museum		Salt Flat	Culberson	National Register of Historic Places	[26]
Dal Paso Museum		Lamesa	Dawson	Local history exhibits	[27]
Spur-Dickens County Museum		Spur, Texas	Dickens	Local history	[28]

Eastland - Ector

List of museums in Eastland and Ector counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum		Eastland	Eastland	Named for area chief justice	[29]
Conrad Hilton Center and Museum		Cisco	Eastland	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places. Located in the Mobley Hotel, the first hotel bought by Conrad Hilton	[30]
Eastland County Museum		Eastland	Eastland	Local history	[31]
Lela Latch Lloyd Museum		Cisco	Eastland	Located in the 1915 city hall, historical artifacts	[32]
Ellen Noël Art Museum		Odessa	Ector	Eclectic American artcollection from 1860 to the present	[33]
Odessa Meteor Crater		Odessa	Ector	Impact crater and museum	[34]
Parker House Ranching Museum		Odessa	Ector	Mid 20th-century period ranching family house	[35]
Presidential Museum and Leadership Library		Odessa	Ector	History of the American Presidency, including presidents, vice presidents, First Ladies, candidates, campaigns	[36]
White-Pool House		Odessa	Ector	National Register of Historic Places Listings, state antiquities landmark. Built by Indiana immigrant Charles White who helped establish the first county government	[37]

El Paso County

List of museums in El Paso County, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss Museum		El Paso	El Paso		[38]
Casasola Museum/Museo Casasola		El Paso	El Paso	History of the US-México relationship	[39]
Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens		El Paso	El Paso	Part of the University of Texas at El Paso, regional cultural and natural history	[40]
Chamizal National Memorial		El Paso	El Paso	Includes a history museum and three art galleries	[41]
El Paso County Historical Society Museum		El Paso	El Paso		[42]
El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center		El Paso	El Paso	Holocaust	[43]
El Paso Museum of Archaeology		El Paso	El Paso	Prehistory and culture of the El Paso area and the Southwest	[44]
El Paso Museum of Art		El Paso	El Paso	Art	[45]
El Paso Museum of History		El Paso	El Paso	History and culture	[46]
Fort Bliss and Old Ironsides Museum		Fort Bliss	El Paso	Military history from 1849 forward	[47]
International Museum of Art		El Paso	El Paso	Located in the Turney home	[48]
Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site		El Paso	El Paso		[49]
Lynx Exhibits		El Paso	El Paso	Privately owned traveling exhibitions	[50]
Magoffin Home State Historic Site		El Paso	El Paso	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[51]
National Border Patrol Museum		El Paso	El Paso	Law enforcement	[52]
Noncommissioned Officer Heritage And Education Center		Fort Bliss	El Paso	US Army non-commissioned officer 1775 to present	[53]
Old El Paso County Jail Museum		El Paso	El Paso		[54]
Old Fort Bliss Replica Cultural Center		Fort Bliss	El Paso	Military	[55]
Portales Museum and Visitors Information Center		El Paso	El Paso	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[56]
Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso		El Paso	El Paso	How transportation enhanced the development of business and industry in the region	[57]
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts		El Paso	El Paso	Part of the University of Texas at El Paso	[58]
TecH2O Center		El Paso	El Paso	Water management in the Chihuahuan Desert	[59]
UTEP Heritage House		El Paso	El Paso	Historical repository of University of Texas at El Paso	[60]
Veterans Memorial Museum & Memorial Walk		San Elizario	El Paso	The Los Portales Museum and Visitors Center	[61]
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Cultural Center Museum		El Paso	El Paso	Native American inter-active experience	[62]

Floyd - Knox

List of museums in Floyd - Knox counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Floyd County Museum		Floydada	Floyd	Artifacts from the 1540 Coronado Expedition	[63]
Gaines County Museum		Seminole	Gaines	Local history	[64]
Seagraves-Loop Museum and Art Center		Seagraves	Gaines	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[65]
Garza County Historical Museum		Post	Garza	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places. Ranch, cowboy, Indian, and pioneer artifacts. Formerly a medical facility	[66]
OS Ranch Museum		Post	Garza	Artwork of Texas, the American West, and Asia, in a house built for C. W. Post who later founded Post cereals	[67]
Jimmy Dean and Llano Estacado Museum		Plainview	Hale	On the campus of Wayland Baptist University	[68]
Malouf Abraham Family Art Center		Plainview	Hale	Wayland Baptist University	[69]
Hale County Farm and Ranch Museum		Post	Hale	Antique farm machinery, windmills, a depot and caboose	[70]
Hangar 25 Air Museum		Big Spring	Howard	Historic aircraft from World War II and the Big Spring Army Air Forces Bombardier School, history of Webb Air Force Base	[71]
Heritage Museum of Big Spring		Big Spring	Howard	Area artifacts and memorabilia	[72]
Potton House		Big Spring	Howard	National Register of Historic Places	[73]
Hudspeth County Railroad Depot Museum		Sierra Blanca	Hudspeth	Railroad and local history displays, operated by the Hudspeth County Historical Society	[74]
Fort Davis National Historic Site		Fort Davis	Jeff Davis	National Register of Historic Places	[75]
Overland Trail Museum		Fort Davis	Jeff Davis	Early life in the old West, operated by the Fort Davis Historical Society	[76]
Anson-Jones Museum		Anson	Jones	Local history	[77]
Cowboy Country Museum		Stamford	Jones	Ranching heritage	[78]
Wichita – Brazos Museum and Cultural Center		Benjamin	Knox	Barbed-wire collection and settlement memorabilia	[79]

Lamb - Lynn

List of museums in Lamb - Lynn counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Littlefield Lands Duggan House Museum		Littlefield	Lamb	Local history	[80]
Sand Crawl Museum		Olton	Lamb	Local history	[81]
American Wind Power Center		Lubbock	Lubbock	American-style windmills	[82]
Buddy Holly Center		Lubbock	Lubbock	Visual arts exhibits, history and legacy of musician Buddy Holly	[83]
FiberMax Center for Discovery		Lubbock	Lubbock	Non-profit, American agriculture	[84]
Lubbock Lake Landmark		Lubbock	Lubbock	Archeological site. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[85]
Museum of Texas Tech University		Lubbock	Lubbock	Natural history, cultural history, art	[86]
National College Baseball Hall of Fame		Lubbock	Lubbock	History of college baseball	[87]
National Ranching Heritage Center		Lubbock	Lubbock	Ranching history and art, park with 38 ranch structures and steer statues	[88]
Science Spectrum		Lubbock	Lubbock	Hands-on science and technology interactive exhibits, aquarium	[89]
Silent Wings Museum		Lubbock	Lubbock	World War II weaponry and transport,	[90]
Slaton Museum		Slaton	Lubbock	Local history	[91]
Texas Air Museum		Slaton	Lubbock	Restored historic aircraft, military jets, transport vehicles	[92]
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts		Lubbock	Lubbock	Visual and performing arts, includes four galleries	[93]
O'Donnell Heritage Museum		O'Donnell	Lynn	Local history, including actor Dan Blocker memorabilia	[94]

Martin - Nolan

List of museums in Martin - Nolan counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Martin County Historical Museum		Stanton	Martin	Exhibits include farms, ranches, schools and local businesses	[95]
Heart of Texas Country Music Museum		Brady	McCullough	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, history and memorabilia of country music artists	[96]
McCulloch County Courthouse		Brady	McCullough	State antiquities landmark	[97]
Heart of Texas Historical Museum		Brady	McCullough	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[98]
Fort McKavett State Historic Site		Menard	Menard	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[99]
Heart of West Texas Museum		Colorado City	Mitchell	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[100]
Brown-Dorsey Medallion Home		Midland	Midland	Late 19th-century period Victorian home, open by appointment with the Midland County Historical Society	[101]
George W. Bush Childhood Home		Midland	Midland	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[102]
Haley Memorial Library & History Center		Midland	Midland	Changing exhibits of Western art and history from its collections	[103]
McCormick Gallery at Midland College		Midland	Midland	Art	[104]
Midland Army Air Field Museum		Midland	Midland	World War II aviation culture and history	[105]
Midland County History Museum		Midland	Midland	Local history	[106]
Midland Downtown Lions Club Fire Museum		Midland	Midland	Firefighting uniforms, equipment, vehicles	[107]
Museum of the Southwest		Midland	Midland	National Register of Historic Places	[108]
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum		Midland	Midland	Petroleum exploration, equipment, industry, geology, art by Tom Lovell, Chaparral cars	[109]
Scarborough-Lineberry House		Midland	Midland	Early 20th-century house, owned by the City	[110]
Motley County Historical Museum		Matador	Motley	Local history located in a former hospital	[111]
National WASP WWII Museum		Sweetwater	Nolan	History of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators	[112]
Pioneer Museum		Sweetwater	Nolan	Local history	[113]

Pecos - Runnels

List of museums in Pecos - Runnels counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Note	Refs
Alley Oop Park Museum		Iraan	Pecos	Birthplace of Alley Oop comic strip	[114]
Annie Riggs Memorial Museum		Fort Stockton	Pecos	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Place	[115]
Historic Fort Stockton		Fort Stockton	Pecos	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places	[116]
Old Pecos County Jail		Fort Stockton	Pecos	Prison	[117]
West of the Pecos Museum		Pecos	Reeves	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, multiple displays of the Old West	[118]
Chinati Foundation		Marfa	Presidio	Contemporary art and sculpture	[119]
Fort Leaton State Historic Site		Presidio	Presidio	National Register of Historic Places, archaeological and natural history	[120]
Giant 1956 film Museum at the Hotel Paisano		Marfa	Presidio	Memorabilia of the 1956 film Giant that was filmed in town	[121]
Marfa and Presidio County Museum		Marfa	Presidio	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[122]
Hickman Museum		Big Lake	Reagan	Local history	[123]
Z.I. Hale Museum / Rock Hotel Heritage Center		Winters	Runnels	Local history	[124]

Schleicher - Sutton

List of museums in Schleicher - Sutton counties

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Schleicher County Historical Museum		Eldorado	Schleicher	Local history	[125]
Old Jail Art Center		Albany	Shackelford	Art, National Register of Historic Places	[126]
Breckenridge Aviation Museum		Breckenridge	Stephens	Aviation	[127]
Breckenridge Fine Arts Center		Breckenridge	Stephens	Art	[128]
Flying A's Classic Car Club Museum		Albany	Shackelford	Classic automobiles and memorabilia	[129]
Fort Griffin State Historic Site		Albany	Shackelford	Fort ruins, visitor center displays about the mid 19th-century cavalry fort	[130]
Scurry County Museum		Snyder	Scurry	County history, also art exhibits	[131]
Swenson Memorial Museum		Breckenridge	Stephens	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[132]
Miers Home Museum		Sonora	Sutton	Late 19th-century house, operated by the Sutton County Historical Society	[133]
Old Sonora Ice House Ranch Museum		Sonora	Sutton	Housed in a former ice house, operated by the Sutton County Historical Society, exhibits includes pioneer, ranching, lawmen and outlaws, area history, transportation, model train layout	[134]

Taylor - Terry

List of museums in Taylor - Terry counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
12th Armored Division Memorial Museum		Abilene	Taylor	History of the 12th Armored Division in World War II	[135]
Center for Contemporary Arts		Abilene	Taylor	Four galleries	[136]
Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame Museum		Abilene	Taylor		[137]
Fort Phantom Hill		Abilene	Taylor		[138]
Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Gallery		Abilene	Taylor	Part of McMurry University	[139]
Merkel Area Historical Museum		Merkel	Taylor		[140]
Buffalo Gap Historic Village		Buffalo Gap	Taylor	Historic Western village	[141]
Cockerell Galleries		Abilene	Taylor	Art, operated by Abilene Christian University	[142]
Dyess Heritage Museum, Memorial Park and Linear Air Park		Abilene	Taylor	Located at Dyess Air Force Base, includes outdoor display of historic aircraft, museum about the base's history	[143]
Frontier Texas!		Abilene	Taylor	American West interactive simulations	[144]
The Grace Museum		Abilene	Taylor	Art, local history, and children's museum	[145]
Ira M. Taylor Memorial Gallery		Abilene	Taylor	Part of Hardin–Simmons University	[146]
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature		Abilene	Taylor	Exhibitions of art from children's books	[147]
Taylor County History Center		Buffalo Gap	Taylor	Historic village	[148]
Terrell County Memorial Museum		Sanderson	Terrell	"Cactus Capitol of Texas"	[149]
Terry County Heritage Museum		Brownfield	Terry	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[150]
Meadow Museum		Meadow	Terry	Local history, with special display on Meadow native Sonny Curtis	[151]

Tom Green - Yoakim

List of museums in Tom Green - Yoakim counties, Texas

Museum name	Image	City	County	Notes	Refs
Angelo State University Art Gallery		San Angelo	Tom Green	Carr Education-Fine Arts Building	[152]
E. H. Danner Museum of Telephony		San Angelo	Tom Green	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Place Technology, located at Fort Concho	[153]
Fort Concho		San Angelo	Tom Green	National Historic Landmark	[154]
Robert Wood Johnson Museum of Frontier Medicine		San Angelo	Tom Green	North Ward of Post Hospital	[155]
Miss Hattie's Bordello		San Angelo	Tom Green	Tours of the Victorian period	[156]
Railway Museum of San Angelo		San Angelo	Tom Green	Located in a 1909 Orient-Santa Fe Depot	[157]
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts		San Angelo	Tom Green	Texas artists, Mexican and Mexican-American art	[158]
Adrian House		McCamey	Upton		[159]
Denver City Heritage Museum		Denver City	Yoakum	Local history and memorabilia	[160]
Medallion Home Museum		Kermit	Winkler	Carpenter Gothic house built in 1907 by W. H. Seastrunk	[161]
Mendoza Trail Museum		McCamey	Upton	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	[162]
Ward County Museum Complex		Monahans	Ward	1920s jail, Holman House, and other collections	[163]
Rankin Museum		Rankin	Upton	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1920s period Yates Hotel, local history displays	[164]
Rattlesnake Bomber Base Museum		Monahans	Ward County	Pyote Air Force Base	[165]
Roy Orbison Museum		Wink	Winkler	Life and career of musician Roy Orbison	[166]
Tsa Mo Ga Memorial Museum		Plains	Yoakum	Operated by the Texas Federation of Women's Club, open by appointment	[167]
Winkler County Historical Museum		Wink	Winkler	Local history	[168]

Defunct museums

• El Paso Explorium, El Paso, closed in 2015^[169]
• El Paso Firefighters Museum^[170]

See also

• Texas portal

• List of museums in Texas
• List of museums in East Texas
• List of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast
• List of museums in North Texas
• List of museums in the Texas Panhandle
• List of museums in South Texas
• List of museums in Central Texas

Resources

• Texas Association of Museums
• Historic House Museums in Texas