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The list of museums in West 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. Included are nonprofit art galleries and exhibit spaces. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

West Texas

West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semiarid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas.

The counties included are Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Dickens, Eastland, Ector, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Glasscock, Hale, Haskell, Hockley, Howard, Hudspeth, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jones, Kent, Kimble, King, Knox, Lamb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Midland, Mitchell, Motley, Nolan, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Runnels, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Upton, Ward, Winkler, and Yoakum.

Museums in West Texas, listed by county

Andrews - Brown

Callahan - Dickens

Eastland - Ector

El Paso County

Floyd - Knox

Lamb - Lynn

Martin - Nolan

Pecos - Runnels

Schleicher - Sutton

Taylor - Terry

Tom Green - Yoakim

Defunct museums

  • El Paso Explorium, El Paso, closed in 2015
  • El Paso Firefighters Museum

See also

  • List of museums in Texas
  • List of museums in East Texas
  • List of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast
  • List of museums in North Texas
  • List of museums in the Texas Panhandle
  • List of museums in South Texas
  • List of museums in Central Texas

Resources

  • Texas Association of Museums
  • Historic House Museums in Texas

References


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