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Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States.[1] It takes its name from President John Tyler.
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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| Tyler, Texas museums, East Texas | ||||
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| Museum name | Image | City | Type | Summary |
| Brookshire's World of Wildlife Museum and Country Store | Tyler | Natural history | website, operated by Brookshire Grocery Company, features wildlife dioramas and period country store displays | |
| Camp Ford | Tyler | Civil War history park | Site of the largest Confederate prisoner camp west of the Mississippi River official archeological site Operated by the Smith County Historical Society Historical reconstruction of the Lt. Col J.B. Leake cabin |
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| Carnegie History Center | Tyler | Local history | website, operated by the Smith County Historical Society Formerly used as Carnegie Public Library |
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| Center for Earth and Space Science Education | Tyler | CESSE at Tyler Junior College | ||
| Cotton Belt Depot Train Museum | Tyler | Built in 1905, Bragg Model Train Collection on permanent display Cotton Belt Depot | ||
| Col. John Dewberry House | Tyler | Historic house | website, 1854 plantation home | |
| Discovery Science Place | Tyler | Science | website | |
| Goodman-LeGrand House | Tyler | Historic house | website | |
| Historic Aviation Memorial Museum | Tyler | Aviation | website, 20th century aviation memorabilia and aircraft | |
| Old Mill Museum | Lindale | |||
| Tyler Museum of Art | Tyler | Art | website | |
| Tyler Rose Museum | Tyler | Entertainment | website, history and memorabilia of the Texas Rose Festival | |
| Whitaker-McClendon House | Tyler | Historic house | website, Eastlake Bracketed Victorian estate, also known as the Bonner-Whitaker-McClendon House | |
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