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East Texas is a region in the U.S. state of Texas, that borders the entire Louisiana state line on the east, Arkansas on the northeast near Texarkana, and Oklahoma on the north. It includes all or parts of 49 counties and contains the regions known as the Texas Piney Woods, and Deep East Texas.[1]
The list of museums in 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. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are non-profit art galleries and exhibit spaces.
Lists of Texas institutions which are not museums are noted in the "See also" section, below.
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Museum name | Image | City | Type | Summary |
Aces of Clubs House | Texarkana | Historic house | website, 1885 Italianate Victorian home in a club shape with Edwardian furnishings | |
B-RI Railroad Museum | Teague | Railroad | website, also local history exhibits | |
Burton Cotton Gin & Museum | Burton | Agriculture | website, working cotton gin and history of cotton farming | |
Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site | Alto | Archaeology | website | |
Chappell Hill Museum | Chappell Hill | Local history | website | |
N.H. Davis Pioneer Complex & Museum | Montgomery | Historic house | information | |
Depot Museum | Henderson | Open air | website, includes East Texas history, folk crafts and historic buildings | |
Discovery Place Children's Museum | Texarkana | Children's | website | |
East Texas Oil Museum | Kilgore | Industry | website, includes re-creation of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, period boomtown displays | |
Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site | Anderson | Historic house | Restored 1850s period family home and stagecoach stop | |
Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum | Gilmer | Aviation | website, aircraft and equipment of the armed forces, a museum dedicated to honoring veterans, nurturing patriotism, preserving heritage | |
Franklin County Museum | Mount Vernon | Local history | information, includes local, cultural and natural history artifacts | |
Gilmer Literary Museum | Gilmer | Commodity | information, memorabilia pertaining to American Presidents, British Royalty, American and British authors and literary characters | |
Gregg County Historical Museum | Longview | Local history | website | |
Harrison County Historical Museum | Marshall | Local history | ||
Henderson County Historical Museum | Athens | Local history | website | |
Heritage Village | Woodville | Open air | website, buildings reflect pioneer life from the 19th century to early 20th century | |
Historic Upshur Museum | Gilmer | Local history | information | |
The History Center | Diboll | Local history | website | |
Horlock History Center | Navasota | Historic house | information, open by appointment | |
House of the Seasons | Jefferson | Historic house | website | |
Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center | Liberty | Multiple | Includes changing exhibits of South Texas history from its collections and two historic house museums | |
Sam Houston Memorial Museum | Huntsville | Biographical | website, part of Sam Houston State University | |
Jefferson Historical Museum | Jefferson | Local history | website, exhibits include period furniture and decorative arts, Civil War artifacts, weapons, country store items, farm tools, pioneer doctor's instruments, art | |
Johnson's Rock Shop and Museum | Livingston | Geology | information | |
Limestone County Historical Museum | Groesbeck | Local history | information | |
Longview Museum of Fine Arts | Longview | Art | website | |
Majors-Parchman Farmstead | Mount Vernon | Historic house | information, 1883 Victorian farmhouse with original outbuildings, a small barn, smokehouse, chicken coop | |
Michelson Museum of Art | Marshall | Art | ||
Miss Jane Library & Museum | Beckville | Local history | website | |
Mount Vernon Railroad Depot | Mount Vernon | Multiple | information, museum includes working telegraph and railroad exhibits, model train exhibit, 1902 Studebaker covered wagon; property includes 1880-built log cabin, a syrup press and mill and a blacksmith shop | |
Museum for East Texas Culture | Palestine | Local history | website | |
Museum of East Texas | Lufkin | Multiple | website, local history and art | |
Museum of Regional History | Texarkana | Local history | website, exhibits include pre-history, +Spanish and French explorers, agriculture, early industry, civil rights, World War II and local music figures | |
Newton County Historical Commission History Center & Museum | Newton | Local history | information | |
Northeast Texas Children's Museum | Commerce | Children's | website | |
Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum | Pittsburg | Multiple | website, two sites with one admission, the Farmstead, a turn-of-the-20th-century farmhouse and farm, and the Cotton Belt Depot with local railroad, cultural, agricultural history and transportation exhibits | |
Old Fort Parker | Groesbeck | Military | website, information, restored fort buildings | |
Old Jail Art Museum | Mount Vernon | Art | website, operated by the Franklin County Arts Alliance | |
The Pearce Collections at Navarro College | Corsicana | Multiple | Contemporary American Western art and American Civil War collections | |
Pioneer Villabe Pioneer Village (Texas) | Corsicana | Open air | website, operated by the Navarro County Historical Society | |
Polk County Memorial Museum | Livingston | Local history | website | |
Powell Hotel Museum | Newton | Historic site | information | |
Samuel T. Rayburn House and Museum | Bonham | Biographical | ||
Sabine County Jail Museum and Vergie Speights Memorial Library | Hemphill | Local history | information, operated by the Sabine County Historical Society, includes exhibits of Sabine County history, tours of jail cell and gallows | |
Salt Palace | Grand Saline | Historic house | website, house made from solid salt rocks donated by Morton Salt, exhibits include local salt industry and local history | |
Shelby County Historical Society Museum | Center | Local history | website, information | |
Allan Shivers Museum and Library | Woodville | Biographical | website, mementos of Governor Allan Shivers | |
Southwest Dairy Museum | Sulphur Springs | Agriculture | Dairy farming and dairy products | |
Spellman Museum of Forney History | Forney | Local history | website, operated by the Forney Historic Preservation League | |
Star of the Republic Museum | Washington-on-the-Brazos | History | Culture and history of the Republic of Texas from 1836–1846 | |
Starr Family Home State Historic Site | Marshall | Historic house | ||
Texas and Pacific Railway Museum | Marshall | Raiilroad | Website | |
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame | Carthage | Music | ||
Texas Forestry Museum | Lufkin | Multiple | website, area logging industry, the CCC, the United States Forest Service and forests | |
Texas Prison Museum | Huntsville | Law enforcement | website | |
Van Area Oil & Historical Museum | Van | Local history | website | |
Vanishing Texana Museum | Jacksonville | Local history | website, located in the Jacksonville Public Library | |
Veterans Museum of Texas | Huntsville | Military | website, also known as HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas | |
Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site | Washington-on-the-Brazos | Multiple | Includes Star of the Republic Museum, Independence Hall and Barrington Living History Farm | |
Williams House Museum | De Kalb | Local history | information | |
Wills Point Depot Museum | Wills Point | Local history | information |
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