List of petroleum museums
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This list of petroleum museums includes oil and gas and related museums around the world.

North America

  • Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
    The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is located in Smackover, Arkansas and focuses on the petroleum industry in Arkansas.-External links:*...

    , Smackover
  • Cold Lake Museums
    Cold Lake Museums
    The Cold Lake Museums are four museums that are located on the old facility of 42 Radar Squadron on the north edge of Cold Lake South. The museums included are the Cold Lake Air Force Museum, as well as the Oil and Gas, Heritage and Aboriginal Museums. Visitors enter from into the Air Force Museum...

    , Cold Lake, Alberta
  • California Oil Museum, Santa Paula, California
  • Drake Well Museum
    Drake Well Museum
    The Drake Well Museum is a museum that interprets the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by "Colonel" Edwin Drake along the banks of Oil Creek in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts...

    , Titusville, Pennsylvania
  • Hathaway Ranch Museum
    Hathaway Ranch Museum
    The Hathaway Ranch Museum in Santa Fe Springs, CA is a museum of five generations of Hathaway family and Southern California history. The five-acre facility includes hundreds of artifacts and buildings showing the initial usage of the land in farming and ranching, as well as the major transition...

    , Santa Fe Springs, California
  • Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum, Oil City
    Oil City, Louisiana
    Oil City is a town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,219 at the 2000 census. Oil City is located on Louisiana Highway 1 north of Caddo Lake...

  • Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum
    Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum
    The Ocean Star Offshore Oil Rig & Museum, located in Galveston, Texas, is a museum dedicated to the offshore oil and gas industry. Located next to the Strand National Historic Landmark District, the museum is housed on a retired jack-up rig set up in the Galveston harbor.-History:The Ocean Star was...

    , Galveston
  • Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
    Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
    The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum is a museum in Midland, Texas, USA, with exhibits relating to the oil and gas industry of the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico. Museum exhibits include the geology of the area during the Permian period, racing cars designed by Jim Hall, and...

    , Midland, Texas
  • Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
    Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
    The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is a museum in Beaumont, Texas, USA commemorating the discovery of oil at the Spindletop salt dome in Beaumont in 1901, which sparked an oil boom in Texas that continues till this day...

    , Beaumont, Texas
  • W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building
    W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building
    W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building, also known as the Oil and Gas Museum of the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association, is a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1899, on the foundation of a building built about 1874. It is a...

    , Parkersburg, West Virginia

Europe

  • Carrickfergus Gas Works Museum
  • Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist
    Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist
    The Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist in Twist, Germany is a museum for crude oil and natural gas and shows technical equipment for mineral exploration of these natural energy resources and gives information about their geological origin.- History :...

    , Twist, Germany
  • Gas Museum, Warsaw
    Gas Museum, Warsaw
    Muzeum Gazownictwa w Warszawie is a museum in Warsaw, Poland. It was built in 1886.-See also:* List of petroleum museums...

  • German Oil Museum
    German Oil Museum
    The German Oil Museum is located in Wietze, a small village west of Celle in Lower Saxony.- Description :The exhibitions in the museum's buildings use a combination of text, diagrams and models to describe the origin, occurrence, prospecting, extraction, processing and uses of crude oil...

    , Lower Saxony
  • London Gas Museum
    London Gas Museum
    The London Gas Museum was a museum in the London Borough of Newham in east London, England.It was situated on Twelvetrees Crescent, on the eastern side of the River Lea and near to Bromley-by-Bow tube station...

     (closed)
  • Musée du pétrole de Merkwiller-Pechelbronn (in French)
  • National Gas Museum
    Gas Museum
    The Gas Museum, also known as the National Gas Museum, is situated in the former gatehouse of a gasworks in Leicester, England, and deals with the history of domestic and industrial gas supply. It is claimed to be "the biggest collection of gas and gas related artefacts in the world".The building...

    , Leicester, UK
  • Norwegian Petroleum Museum
    Norwegian Petroleum Museum
    The Norwegian Petroleum Museum was opened on 20 May 1999. In Norwegian language the museum is called Norsk Oljemuseum. The unusual architecture has made the museum a landmark in the Port of Stavanger. Seen from the sea the museum looks like a small oil platform. The museum focuses on offshore...

    , Stavangar

Asia

  • Miri Petroleum Museum, Miri
  • Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre
    Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre
    Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre is a museum, located on Seih Al Maleh Street, Al-Qurum, Muscat Oman.The museum was established 1995 as a donation from Petroleum Development Oman . The museum is an interactive journey exploring the discovery, extraction and use of fossil fuels in Oman.Adjacent to...

    , Al-Qurum
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