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The list of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast 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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| The Texas Gulf Coast | ||||
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| Museum name | Image | City | Type | Summary |
| 20th Century Technology Museum | Wharton | Technology | Displays include radios, phonographs and a jukebox, televisions, arcade games, home appliances, farm equipment, telephones, typewriters, computers, electronics, cameras and aircraft | |
| Calhoun County Museum | Port Lavaca | Local history | website | |
| Children's Discovery Museum of the Golden Crescent | Victoria | Children | information | |
| City By the Sea Museum | Palacios | Texas Gulf Coast | website, museum of the Palacios Area Historical Association | |
| John E. Conner Museum | Kingsville | Multiple | information, part of Texas A&M University–Kingsville, natural and cultural history of South Texas | |
| Egypt Plantation Museum | Egypt | Historic house | website, Empire period house, also includes depot museum with ranching heritage and plantation life displays, and Texas history | |
| El Campo Museum of Natural History | El Campo | Natural history | website, wildlife dioramas, special collections of clown memorabilia, fishing lures, seashells | |
| Fulton Mansion State Historic Site | Fulton | Historic house | Restored Victorian mansion | |
| Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum | Harlingen | Multiple | website, art and local history, formerly the Rio Grande Valley Museum | |
| Heritage Museum at Falfurrias, Texas | Falfurrias | Local history | website | |
| Iwo Jima Memorial Museum | Harlingen | Military | website, information, part of the Marine Military Academy | |
| Kenedy Ranch Museum of South Texas | Sarita | History | website, history of the Kenedy family and South Texas | |
| King Ranch Museum | Kingsville | Agriculture | website, history of the King Ranch | |
| Otto Lawrence Children's Museum | Edna | Children's | information, information | |
| Matagorda County Museum | Bay City | Local history | website, information | |
| McNamara House Museum | Victoria | Historic house | website, Victorian period house | |
| Mercedes Doll Display | Mercedes | Doll | information | |
| Museum of the Coastal Bend | Victoria | Local history | website | |
| Museums of Port Isabel | Port Isabel | Multiple | website, complex includes the Port Isabel Historic Museum with local history exhibits, the Treasures of the Gulf Museum with exhibits from 3 1554 Spanish shipwrecks, and the Point Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site | |
| Nave Museum | Victoria | Art | website, works by Royston Nave and changing exhibits | |
| Point Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site | Port Isabel | Lighthouse | ||
| Refugio County Museum | Refugio | Local history | website, information | |
| Texana Museum | Edna | Local history | information, information, local cultural and natural history | |
| Wharton County Museum | Wharton | Local history | website, history, culture, and traditions of the county | |
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