List of museums in East Texas

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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.

East Texas

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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]

Counties included are Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin, Gregg, Hardin, Harrison, Henderson, Hopkins, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Rains, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Smith, Titus, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Walker and Wood.[2]

Museums

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List of museums in East Texas
Museum name Image City County Notes Refs
Howard House Museum Howard House Museum Palestine Anderson [3]
Museum for East Texas Culture Museum for East Texas Culture Palestine Anderson Located in the old Palestine High School [4]
The History Center Diboll Angelina Photographs, archives, oral history [5]
Museum of East Texas Lufkin Angelina [6]
Naranjo Museum of Natural History Lufkin Angelina Dinosaurs and fossils, artifacts of ancient cultures [7]
Texas Forestry Museum Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, TX IMG 8594 Lufkin Angelina Texas timber history [8]
Ace of Clubs House Draughn-Moore House, Texarkana Texarkana Bowie AJA the Draughn-Moore House on the National Register of Historic Places [9]
Discovery Place Children's Museum Texarkana Bowie [10]
Texarkana Museum of Regional History Texarkana Bowie Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [11]
Regional Arts Center Texarkana Bowie Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [12]
The Williams House Museum De Kalb Bowie 1885 Texas & Pacific Railroad Section House. Exhibits on Lead Belly, Luke Walker, Durwood Merrill, Barry B. Telford, Dan Blocker and Ricky Nelson [13]
Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum Pittsburg Camp [14]
Atlanta Historical Museum Atlanta Cass Exhibit on locally born aviator Bessie Coleman [15]
American Freedom Museum Bullard Cherokee WWII memorabilia [16]
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Caddo Mound Texas State Historic Site Alto Cherokee National Register of Historic Places [17]
Heritage Center of Cherokee County Rusk Cherokee Artifacts dating from American Civil War to current day [18]
Jim Hogg Historic Site Rusk Cherokee [19]
Vanishing Texana Museum Jacksonville Senior Center and Vanishing Texana Museum Jacksonville Cherokee Collections date to the 1800s through the 1970s. [20]
Patterson Museum Enloe Delta County [21]
Clara Foster Slough Museum Enloe Delta County Artifacts, genealogy center [22]
Alamo Mission Museum Mount Vernon Franklin Replica of the Alamo Mission [23]
Cotton Belt Depot Cotton Belt Depot Mount Vernon Franklin [24]
Fire Station Museum Fire Station Museum Mount Vernon Franklin Memorabilia related to hometown football athlete Don Meredith [25]
Franklin County Genealogical Society Mount Vernon Franklin [26]
Majors-Parchman Farmstead Mount Vernon Franklin 1883 Victorian farmhouse [27]
Old Jail Art Museum Old Jail Art Museum Mount Vernon Franklin Housed in a circa 1912 jail [28]
Winnsboro Historical Museum Winnsboro Franklin [29]
Kilgore College East Texas Oil Museum East Texas Oil Museum building, Kilgore, TX IMG 5900 Kilgore Gregg History, artifacts and exhibits [30]
Gladewater Museum Gladewater Gregg The museum displays tell the story of Gladewater and the surrounding areas from the early settlement days through the 1930s and beyond. Elvis performed here many times [31]
Gregg County Historical Museum Everett Building 2 Longview Gregg Housed in the 1910 Everett Building [32]
Longview Museum of Fine Arts Longview Museum of Fine Arts Longview Gregg Focus is contemporary regional art [33]
R.G. LeTourneau Memorial Museum and Archives Longview Gregg [34]
Rangerette Showcase and Museum Texas Rangerette Museum, Kilgore, TX IMG 5907 Kilgore Gregg Part of Kilgore College, memorabilia of the Kilgore College Rangerettes [35]
Batson Oil Patch Museum Batson Hardin A tribute to the unsung working-class heroes of the oil industry [36]
Bertha Terry Cornwell Museum of Sour Lake History Sour Lake Hardin Sour Lake history 1840 to present [37]
Kirby-Hill House Kirby hill house kountze Texas 2014 Kountze Hardin National Register of Historic Places [38]
Ice House Museum Silsbee Hardin Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [39]
Harrison County Historical Museum Confederate marker in Marshall, TX IMG 2332 Marshall Harrison Located in the old courthouse, county history and culture [40]
Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center Marshall Harrison [41]
Marshall Visual Art Center Marshall Harrison [42]
Michelson Museum of Art Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, Texas Marshall Harrison Work of Russian-American artist Leo Michelson [43]
Service and Sacrifice: Harrison County at War at Memorial City Hall Performance Center Marshall Harrison [44]
Starr Family Home State Historic Site Starr Home at Christmas, Marshall, TX IMG 2350 Marshall Harrison Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [45]
T. C. Lindsey and Co. General Store Jonesville Harrison Old-fashioned general store and part museum with antiques, rare automobiles, jukeboxes and other memorabilia [46]
Texas and Pacific Railway Museum Texas and Pacific Railway Museum Marshall Harrison Railroad related [47]
Chandler Museum & Visitors Center Chandler Henderson [48]
East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Athens Henderson [49]
Henderson County Historical Museum Athens Henderson Local history [50]
Old Henderson County Jail Athens Henderson Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [51]
Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center Athens Henderson 26,000-gallon aquarium, live shows [52]
Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park Sulphur Springs Hopkins Includes local history museum and park with over 11 relocated historic houses, shops and mills [53]
Southwest Dairy Museum Sulphur Springs Hopkins Dairy farming and dairy products [54]
Houston County Visitor Center And Museum Crockett Houston Varied collection [55]
Monroe-Crook House Crockett Houston Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1854 by Armistead Thompson Mason Monroe, grandnephew of President James Monroe [56]
Calaboose Museum Kirbyville Jasper Images and artifacts [57]
East Texas Regional Art Center Jasper Jasper 6-8 exhibitions per year [58]
Jasper County Historical Museum Jasper Jasper Weaponry collection dating back to the Texas Revolution [59]
Art Museum of Southeast Texas Beaumont Jefferson Art collection that spans three centuries [60]
Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum Babe Zaharis Museum IMG 1061 Beaumont Jefferson Babe Didrikson Zaharia was born in Port Arthur [61]
Beaumont Art League Beaumont Jefferson Brown Gallery and the Scurlock Gallery [62]
Beaumont Children's Museum Beaumont February 16 023 Beaumont Jefferson Inside the Beaumont Civic Center [63]
Beaumont Police Department Museum Beaumont Jefferson Weaponry and memorabilia [64]
Chambers Historical House Museum Chambers Historical House Museum Beaumont Jefferson Historic house [65]
Clifton Steamboat Museum Beaumont Jefferson [66]
Dishman Art Museum Dishman Art Museum Beaumont Jefferson Part of Lamar University [67]
Dutch Windmill Museum Nederland Jefferson Multiple exhibits about area cultural history [68]
Edison Museum Edison museum beaumont tx 2014 Beaumont Jefferson All about Thomas Edison and his inventions [69]
Fire Museum of Texas Fire Museum of Texas in Beaumont Beaumont Jefferson Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [70]
John Jay French House 2014-10-11 Beaumont, Tx., French Trading, Historic homes 014 Beaumont Jefferson Oldest house in Beaumont, built in 1845 [71]
La Maison Acadienne Nederland Jefferson Replica of early Acadian homes in South Louisiana, with local French heritage displays [72]
La Maison Beausoleil Port Neches Jefferson Built 1810 in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana [73]
McFaddin-Ward House McFaddin-Ward House Beaumont Jefferson Listed on the National Register of Historical Places [74]
Museum of the Gulf Coast Port Arthur Jefferson Heritage of the Gulf Coast [75]
Pompeiian Villa Pompeiian Villa by Michael Reed fastturtles.org Port Arthur Jefferson Replica of a 79 A.D Pompeiian villa . National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas historic Landmark [76]
Rose Hill Manor Rose hill by Michael Reed fastturtles.org Port Arthur Jefferson Listed on the National Register of Historical Places [77]
Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum Beaumont Jefferson Part of Lamar University, restored oil boomtown village that show the effects of the Spindletop oil well on the local community [78]
Texas Artist Museum Port Arthur Jefferson Working museum for area artists [79]
Texas Energy Museum Beaumont Jefferson Texas oil industry and oil discovery science [80]
White Haven Port Arthur Jefferson 1905 New England colonial style home, but later changed to Southern Greek Revival. Owned by Lamar State College-Port Arthur. Tours by appointment only [81]
Vuylsteke Dutch Home Port Arthur Jefferson Early 20th-century (1905) Dutch colonial home owned by Lamar State College–Port Arthur. [82]
Lamar County Historical Museum Lamar County Historical Museum Paris Lamar [83]
Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site Sam Bell Maxey House Paris Lamar Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [84]
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center Paris Lamar [85]
Jefferson Historical Society Museum Jefferson Marion Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [86]
Lafayette Street Vintage Vehicles Car Museum Jefferson Marion Vintage and antique cars from the 1920s through the 1950s [87]
Epperson-McNutt House House of the Seasons, Jefferson, Texas Jefferson Marion aka House of the Seasons, listed on NRHP in Marion County, 1870s period Greek Revival house [88]
Museum of Measurement and Time Jefferson Marion Horology Measurement Mathematics, from the collection of Johnny and Edith Ingram [89]
R. D. Moses Texas & Pacific Model Railroad Jefferson Marion Located in the depot building behind the Jefferson Museum, 1950s period HO model train layout of the Texas & Pacific Railroad in West Texas. Model railroad by R.D. Moses and Jack Luck over three decades [90]
Durst-Taylor Historic House and Gardens DurstTaylor1 Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Mid-19th-century period house [91]
Millard's Crossing Historic Village Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. 19th and early 20th-century village on 37 acres [92]
Nacogdoches Fire Department Museum Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Built in 1996 [93]
Nacogdoches Railroad Depot Museum Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Railroad [94]
Old Stone Fort Museum Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches, Texas Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Part of Stephen F. Austin State University, located in a replica late 18th-century building that was a trading post, private home, church, jail and saloon [95]
Old University Building Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [96]
Sterne-Hoya House Museum and Library Sterne-Hoya House Museum and Library, Nacogdoches, TX IMG 3998 Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, mid 19th-century house associated with Davy Crockett and Sam Houston [97]
Stephen F. Austin State University Galleries Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Multiple on campus galleries [98]
Newton County Historical Center and Museum Newton Newton Local archives, archaeology, history and artifacts [99]
Powell Hotel Museum Newton Newton Built in 1889 as the W.H.Ford Male and Female College. Converted in 1914 to a hotel, serving as a private residence 40 years later [100]
Orangefield Cormier Museum Orange Orange Conceived by oilman Paul Cormier to depict life in a small town [101]
Bridge City Historical Museum Bridge City Orange [102]
Heritage House Museum Orange Orange Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [103]
Stark Museum of Art Orange Orange American Western and Native American art and artifacts [104]
W. H. Stark House StarkHouse Orange Orange National Register of Historic Places 1920s period house [105]
Panola County Heritage Museum and Texas Tea Room Panola County Heritage Museum, Carthage, Texas Carthage Panola [106]
Panola County Jail Panola County Jail Carthage Panola Historic county jail, includes the Old Jail Museum on the 2nd floor, and the Soape Family Museum with displays of local history [107]
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum, Carthage, Texas Carthage Panola Texas country music singers, songwriters, disc jockeys, etc. [108]
Johnson's Rock Shop and Museum Livingston Polk Rocks, crystals and fossils [109]
Polk County Memorial Museum Livingston Polk Exhibits include prehistory, Native Americans, pioneers, industry, agriculture, businesses, culture [110]
Emory Heritage Park Emory Rains County [111]
Lennox Home Clarksville Red River Operated by the Red River County Historical Society. Queen Anne-style 1897 home [112]
Red River County Old Jail Museum Red River County Old Jail Museum Clarksville Red River Completed in 1889, architects Maj. S. B. Haggart and Marshall Sanguinet [113]
Depot Museum Depot Museum, Henderson, Texas Henderson Rusk Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, aka Rusk County Depot Museum Complex [114]
Gaston Museum Joinerville Rusk Life in the East Texas Oil Field from the 1930s through 1960s [115]
Howard Dickinson House Henderson Rusk Historic house built in 1855 by Virginia-born brothers James and David P. Howard. David's wife Martha Ann was a cousin to Sam Houston, who made numerous visits to the home. [116]
London Museum London Museum, New London, Texas New London Rusk History and artifacts of the 1937 New London School explosion, which killed approximately 298 people [117]
Monte Verdi Plantation Cushing Rusk National Register of historic places. Former cotton plantation that used enslaved labor until the June 19, 1865 emancipation of the slaves in Texas [118]
Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum - Remembering Columbia Hemphill Sabine The museum was funded by real estate developer Al Smith and named for his wife Patricia Huffman Smith.

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 [119]
Sabine County Jail Museum and Vergie Speights Memorial Library Hemphill Sabine [120]
Ezekiel Cullen House Ezekiel Cullen House, San Augustine, Texas San Augustine San Augustine Mid 19th-century house, operated by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas [121]
Mission Dolores State Historic Site San Augustine San Augustine Visitor center, museum and campground with artifacts from the Mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais, one of the Spanish missions in Texas [122]
San Jacinto County Museum and Old Jail San Jacinto County Jail, Coldspring, Texas Coldspring San Jacinto Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places [123]
Camp Ford Historic Park, C.S.A. Tyler Smith [124]
Carnegie History Center Tyler Smith [125]
Center for Earth and Space Science Education Tyler Smith On the campus of Tyler Junior College [126]
Cotton Belt Depot Museum Cotton Belt Depot Museum Tyler Smith Deeded to the city of Tyler by the Southern Pacific Rail Road [127]
Dewberry Plantation Historic American Buildings Survey, Harry L. Starnes, Photographer December 23, 1936, FRONT AND SIDE ELEVATION. – Colonel John Dewberry Plantation House, Farm Road 346, Bullard, HABS TEX,212- ,2-1 Tyler Smith The life of Col. John Dewberry [128]
Discovery Science Place Rear view of DSP Ship in Discovery Landing Tyler Smith For kids of all ages [129]
Goodman–LeGrand House Goodman–LeGrand House Tyler Smith National Register of Historic Places [130]
Historic Aviation Memorial Museum Tyler Smith Oral histories, memorabilia and aircraft [131]
Tyler Museum of Art Tyler Smith Over a thousand works of art [132]
Tyler Rose Museum Tyler Smith History and memorabilia of the Texas Rose Festival [133]
Whitaker-McClendon House WhitakerMcClendonHouse1 Tyler Smith National Register of Historic Places. Eastlake Bracketed Victorian period estate [134]
Trinity County Museum and Hensley Genealogical and Historical Research Center Trinity County Museum and Hensley Genealogical and Historical Research Center Groveton Trinity [135]
Allan Shivers Library and Museum Woodville Tyler Established by former Texas governor Allan Shivers in 1996 and his wife Marialice. Housed in the 1881 old Robert A. Cruse home [136]
Colmesneil House Colmesneil Tyler Built in 1880 by W.T. Colmesneil [137]
Heritage Village Woodville Tyler Replicated pioneer structures [138]
Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum Gilmer Upshur [139]
Historic Upshur Museum Gilmer Upshur Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [140]
Literary Museum in Gilmer Gilmer Upshur Global memorabilia from the Larry W. Osborne collection [141]
Blackwell House Museum Blackwell House Museum, Canton, TX IMG 5614 Canton Van Zandt County Built in 1886 [142]
Canton Plaza Museum Canton Van Zandt County [143]
The Salt Palace The Salt Palace, Grand Saline, Texas Grand Saline Van Zandt County Constructed entirely of salt, as the entire town is built atop an underground salt lode. [144]
Heritage Park Museum of East Texas Edgewood Van Zandt County Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [145]
Van Area Oil & Historical Museum Van Van Zandt County [146]
Van Zandt County Veterans Memorial and Visitors Center Canton Van Zandt County [147]
Wills Point Depot Museum Wills Point Van Zandt County Artifacts, documents and photos [148]
Gibbs-Powell House Museum Huntsville Walker Recorded Texas Historic Landmark [149]
H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum of Texas Huntsville Walker [150]
Sam Houston Memorial Museum Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas Huntsville Walker Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Place [151]
Samuel Walker Houston Museum and Cultural Center Huntsville Walker Both Samuel Walker Houston and his father Joshua Houston were enslaved people owned by Sam Houston [152]
Texas Prison Museum Texas Prison Museum Huntsville Walker The museum has on display the Old Sparky electric chair used for executions [153]
Alba Public Library and Museum Alba Wood [154]
East Texas African American Museum Hawkins Wood Founded in 2016, spearheaded by Gloria Washington, Clarence Shackleford and Tyler pastor Steven Cofe [155]
Mineola Historical Museum Mineola Wood National Register of Historic Places [156]
Mineola Railroad Museum Mineola Wood See: Mineola station (Texas) [157]
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