East Texas Oil Museum1301 S. Henderson Blvd.Kilgore, TX 75662 Winter/Spring HoursWednesday-Saturday: 10AM – 5PM AdmissionAdults: $8Children 3-11yo: $5Children Under 3: Free The East Texas Oil Museum is the prototype for all modern oil museums. It’s historic life sized 1930s boom town, working models of oilfield technology, and animated “Elevator Ride to the Center of the…
West Kern Oil Museum 1168 Wood St, Taft, CA 93268 Taft, CA 93268 Driving past the orchards, stockyards, and oil wells of central California, it seems only natural to come across the expansive yard of retired oil derricks and other oilfield equipment that greets any visitor to the West Kern Oil Museum. The West Kern…
Kern County: Rich in Oil and History Kern County has been a major oil hub since oil started being extracted back at the turn of the 20th century. Even before wildcats began drilling for black gold, Native Americans had been using the black, sticky material that seeped out of the ground to waterproof baskets and…
Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum5550 Jimmy Simmons BlvdBeaumont, TX 77705 HoursTuesday-Saturday: 10 AM – 5 PMSunday: 1 – 5 PM Admission: Adults: $5Seniors: $3Children 6-12: $2Children Under 5: Free The Texas Oil Boom began on January 10, 1901. On that day, Captain Anthony F. Lucas reached oil underneath Spindletop—a salt dome three miles south of…
Texas Energy Museum600 Main StreetBeaumont, Texas 77701 HoursTuesday – Saturday 9 am – 5 pmSunday – 1 pm – 5 pm AdmissionAdults $5Children (6-12) $3Seniors (65 & over) $3 The Texas Energy Museum in Beaumont, Texas boasts one of the most elegantly curated and educational collections among those featured by The Drillings. Extensive displays dive…
Smackover brought Arkansas to the national attention in 1920s when it was ranked 1st amongst the nation’s oil fields. Before the oil industry came to Smackover, the region struggled producing cotton and timber. On January 10, 1921, the The Busey No. 1 well near El Dorado, Arkansas and 15 miles from Smackover blew in as Arkansas’ discovery…
Galveston, Texas is host to one of the most unique oil museums in the US. Unlike most landlocked museums, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Museum is housed on a retired jackup drilling rig. Visitors to the busy island walk past fishing boats unloading their catch and across a gangway to the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling…
In case there was any question about the subject matter of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the 100 cattle brands decorating its entrance and iconic old oil derrick should remove any doubt. This is a history museum for and about northern Texas. Located in Canyon, just south of Amarillo, on the West Texas A&M University campus,…
In Bartlesville, Oklahoma is a memorial to an industry giant born from the oilfields in Oklahoma. The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum is a two story structure filled with artifacts, dioramas, and tales of the history of Phillips Petroleum from the early speculation in the Oklahoma oil fields to the 66ers basketball team. The Company Phillips Petroleum Co. was founded…
Only a few miles from the Drake Well Museum is the remains of a remarkable oil boom town that went bust in less than two years of existence. Pithole, Pennsylvania was initially farm land before oil was pumped out of Drake’s Well. With the discovery of a process to extract petroleum from the ground at…
