Museums32.4490° N, 99.7336° W
Abilene, TX
A museum devoted to the Hellcats armored division, with uniforms, vehicles, weapons and battlefield history from World War II.
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Museums in Texas
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Suggest a stopSmall, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
- Museums29.6454° N, 95.2869° W
Houston, TX
A preserved Art Deco airport terminal filled with Houston aviation history, airline artifacts and historic aircraft.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums35.1946° N, 101.8058° W
Amarillo, TX
A museum dedicated to the American Quarter Horse, including breed history, legendary horses and riders, trophies and western material culture.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums33.5795° N, 101.8109° W
Lubbock, TX
A large museum displaying hundreds of historic windmills, wind-energy machines and related ranching technology.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums35.1726° N, 101.9230° W
Amarillo, TX
A large privately assembled collection of classic and custom automobiles with an old-garage atmosphere and a rotating mix of unusual vehicles.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums33.5781° N, 101.8458° W
Lubbock, TX
A museum devoted to Buddy Holly inside a former railroad depot, with instruments, clothing, records and the giant eyeglasses sculpture outside.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.3037° N, 104.0215° W
Marfa, TX
Donald Judd's large-scale contemporary art museum occupies a former military base and spreads minimalist installations across buildings and desert grounds.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums35.2317° N, 100.5968° W
McLean, TX
A museum devoted largely to barbed wire, fencing patents, tools, ranching history and Route 66 artifacts. Its thousands of wire samples make it unusually specific even by roadside-museum standards.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.5562° N, 97.1305° W
Waco, TX
A museum inside the historic bottling plant where Dr Pepper was first produced, filled with soda-fountain, advertising and bottling artifacts.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums32.3771° N, 94.8670° W
Kilgore, TX
An immersive museum recreating a 1930s oil-boom town with derricks, shops, drilling equipment and theatrical exhibits.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.3074° N, 97.7261° W
Austin, TX
The castle-like former studio of sculptor Elisabet Ney preserves monumental statues, plaster models and the strange domestic-workspace atmosphere of her Austin years.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3316° N, 103.2285° W
Big Bend National Park, TX
An open-air exhibit interprets Big Bend's extraordinary fossil record, including giant crocodilians, dinosaurs and early mammals from multiple geologic periods.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums32.4502° N, 99.7321° W
Abilene, TX
An immersive frontier museum uses hologram-like presentations and recreated environments to tell violent and strange stories from the Texas frontier.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums32.8426° N, 96.8359° W
Dallas, TX
Aviation museum with historic aircraft, spacecraft artifacts, missiles and exhibits covering early flight through the space age.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3337° N, 94.7770° W
Galveston, TX
A preserved World War II submarine that visitors can enter at Seawolf Park.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3340° N, 94.7765° W
Galveston, TX
A rare World War II destroyer escort preserved beside USS Cavalla and open for self-guided exploration.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums29.3072° N, 94.7973° W
Galveston, TX
A major railroad collection inside the former Santa Fe depot, with restored locomotives, passenger cars and recreated station scenes.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums32.7491° N, 97.0804° W
Arlington, TX
A museum devoted to bowling history, technology and competition, with interactive exhibits and artifacts from centuries of pin games.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums35.1553° N, 101.9182° W
Amarillo, TX
A private collection of vintage recreational vehicles, motorcycles and road-trip memorabilia preserving the design history of American camping and highway travel.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Museums30.3104° N, 104.0208° W
Marfa, TX
Preserved living and working spaces used by artist Donald Judd, including architecture, furniture and permanently installed artworks viewed on guided tours.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Museums29.6034° N, 95.1777° W
Houston, TX
A large aviation museum displaying restored military and civilian aircraft along with Texas aviation history.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums31.4613° N, 100.4377° W
San Angelo, TX
A museum above a downtown jewelry store preserves rooms and artifacts from a real early-20th-century San Angelo brothel.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums30.5278° N, 96.2401° W
College Station, TX
A military-history museum with restored tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and uniforms, many of them maintained in operating condition.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums32.7579° N, 94.3459° W
Jefferson, TX
A highly specific private museum containing hundreds of clocks, surveying tools, measuring devices, mechanical instruments and a huge salt-and-pepper-shaker collection.
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- Open to visitors