Museums33.1504° N, 96.8367° W
Frisco, TX
A major collection of historic locomotives and passenger equipment, including huge steam, diesel and streamlined-era railcars.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
Museums in Texas
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- Museums30.3631° N, 103.6502° W
Alpine, TX
A museum at Sul Ross State University covering Big Bend archaeology, maps, Indigenous cultures, ranching and borderlands history.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.8850° N, 93.9399° W
Port Arthur, TX
A regional museum with petroleum, maritime and cultural exhibits plus galleries on famous Gulf Coast musicians and athletes.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.2671° N, 97.7387° W
Austin, TX
A classic dime-museum-style attraction filled with cryptids, sideshow material, odd taxidermy, movie props and other curiosities.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.9459° N, 106.4417° W
El Paso, TX
A museum devoted to U.S. Border Patrol history with vehicles, weapons, uniforms and unusual smuggling-related artifacts.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.9524° N, 95.4251° W
Houston, TX
A large museum dedicated to funeral customs, hearses, embalming, presidential funerals, international mourning traditions and the business of death.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums33.1490° N, 96.8359° W
Frisco, TX
A hands-on museum tracing videogame history with rare consoles, playable systems, arcade cabinets and recreated game-industry environments.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3107° N, 94.7890° W
Galveston, TX
A retired offshore drilling rig converted into a museum where visitors can walk the structure and learn how Gulf oil platforms operate.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums35.5368° N, 100.4389° W
Mobeetie, TX
A preserved 1886 sandstone jail that now interprets Old Mobeetie's frontier-boomtown history, lawmen, outlaws and military connections.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.9722° N, 102.0907° W
Midland, TX
A museum devoted to oil geology, drilling technology and the petroleum boom, with historic rigs and machinery spread across indoor and outdoor exhibits.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.5888° N, 103.8950° W
Fort Davis, TX
A small roadside reptile museum displaying live venomous snakes and other desert reptiles from the Southwest.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums27.5065° N, 99.5073° W
Laredo, TX
A small museum in an 1830s building interprets the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande and Laredo's border history.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums27.8002° N, 97.4515° W
Corpus Christi, TX
The Quintanilla family museum preserves stage outfits, awards, vehicles and recording memorabilia connected to Tejano star Selena.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums33.6552° N, 101.8210° W
Lubbock, TX
A museum devoted to the World War II military glider program, including a restored CG-4A glider and stories of pilots who landed silently behind enemy lines.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.0449° N, 94.0743° W
Beaumont, TX
A recreated oil-boom town built around the story of the 1901 Spindletop gusher, with historic buildings and a working gusher re-creation.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.7398° N, 95.5507° W
Huntsville, TX
A museum covering Texas prison history with confiscated weapons, inmate art, an electric chair and a full-size replica prison cell.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.5573° N, 97.1189° W
Waco, TX
A state museum devoted to the Texas Rangers, with weapons, badges, crime-history exhibits and material from both real law enforcement and pop culture.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.2862° N, 97.7322° W
Austin, TX
The University of Texas natural-history museum displays Texas fossils, dinosaurs, meteorites and geological specimens.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.2988° N, 94.7856° W
Galveston, TX
A Texas and American West museum inside the former Galveston Orphans Home, combining rare documents, weapons, art and frontier artifacts.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.6052° N, 97.1765° W
Waco, TX
A shelter preserves the in-place fossils of Columbian mammoths and other Ice Age animals discovered along the Bosque River.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3613° N, 100.8991° W
Del Rio, TX
A rambling local-history complex with historic buildings, frontier artifacts and the graves of Judge Roy Bean and his son.
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- Open to visitors