
5 Top Texas Oil Museums
Conjuring up the boom years.
1. East Texas Oil Museum, Kilgore. Boomtown USA, a life-size diorama, chronicles the 1930s discovery of oil and how it changed the small towns of East Texas.
2. Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, Galveston. A retired rig houses offshore drilling exhibits and illustrates life on a drilling rig.
3. Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland. Combining science, education, and history, exhibits and interactive learning experiences examine the petroleum industry and its origins.
5. Luling Oil Museum, Luling. This museum conjures up life here during Central Texas’s 1920s oil boom.