# 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

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.
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.

## Museums

List of museums in East Texas :
| Museum name | City | County | Notes |
| Howard House Museum | Palestine | Anderson | |
| Museum for East Texas Culture | Palestine | Anderson | Located in the old Palestine High School |
| The History Center | Diboll | Angelina | Photographs, archives, oral history |
| Museum of East Texas | Lufkin | Angelina | |
| Naranjo Museum of Natural History | Lufkin | Angelina | Dinosaurs and fossils, artifacts of ancient cultures |
| Texas Forestry Museum | Lufkin | Angelina | Texas timber history |
| Ace of Clubs House | Texarkana | Bowie | AJA the Draughn-Moore House on the National Register of Historic Places |
| Discovery Place Children's Museum | Texarkana | Bowie | |
| Texarkana Museum of Regional History | Texarkana | Bowie | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Regional Arts Center | Texarkana | Bowie | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| 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 |
| Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum | Pittsburg | Camp | |
| Atlanta Historical Museum | Atlanta | Cass | Exhibit on locally born aviator Bessie Coleman |
| American Freedom Museum | Bullard | Cherokee | WWII memorabilia |
| Caddo Mounds State Historic Site | Alto | Cherokee | National Register of Historic Places |
| Heritage Center of Cherokee County | Rusk | Cherokee | Artifacts dating from American Civil War to current day |
| Jim Hogg Historic Site | Rusk | Cherokee | |
| Vanishing Texana Museum | Jacksonville | Cherokee | Collections date to the 1800s through the 1970s. |
| Patterson Museum | Enloe | Delta County | |
| Clara Foster Slough Museum | Enloe | Delta County | Artifacts, genealogy center |
| Alamo Mission Museum | Mount Vernon | Franklin | Replica of the Alamo Mission |
| Cotton Belt Depot | Mount Vernon | Franklin | |
| Fire Station Museum | Mount Vernon | Franklin | Memorabilia related to hometown football athlete Don Meredith |
| Franklin County Genealogical Society | Mount Vernon | Franklin | |
| Majors-Parchman Farmstead | Mount Vernon | Franklin | 1883 Victorian farmhouse |
| Old Jail Art Museum | Mount Vernon | Franklin | Housed in a circa 1912 jail |
| Winnsboro Historical Museum | Winnsboro | Franklin | |
| Kilgore College East Texas Oil Museum | Kilgore | Gregg | History, artifacts and exhibits |
| 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 |
| Gregg County Historical Museum | Longview | Gregg | Housed in the 1910 Everett Building |
| Longview Museum of Fine Arts | Longview | Gregg | Focus is contemporary regional art |
| R.G. LeTourneau Memorial Museum and Archives | Longview | Gregg | |
| Rangerette Showcase and Museum | Kilgore | Gregg | Part of Kilgore College, memorabilia of the Kilgore College Rangerettes |
| Batson Oil Patch Museum | Batson | Hardin | A tribute to the unsung working-class heroes of the oil industry |
| Bertha Terry Cornwell Museum of Sour Lake History | Sour Lake | Hardin | Sour Lake history 1840 to present |
| Kirby-Hill House | Kountze | Hardin | National Register of Historic Places |
| Ice House Museum | Silsbee | Hardin | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| Harrison County Historical Museum | Marshall | Harrison | Located in the old courthouse, county history and culture |
| Inez Hatley Hughes Historical Research Center | Marshall | Harrison | |
| Marshall Visual Art Center | Marshall | Harrison | |
| Michelson Museum of Art | Marshall | Harrison | Work of Russian-American artist Leo Michelson |
| Service and Sacrifice: Harrison County at War at Memorial City Hall Performance Center | Marshall | Harrison | |
| Starr Family Home State Historic Site | Marshall | Harrison | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| T. C. Lindsey and Co. General Store | Jonesville | Harrison | Old-fashioned general store and part museum with antiques, rare automobiles, jukeboxes and other memorabilia |
| Texas and Pacific Railway Museum | Marshall | Harrison | Railroad related |
| Chandler Museum & Visitors Center | Chandler | Henderson | |
| East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society | Athens | Henderson | |
| Henderson County Historical Museum | Athens | Henderson | Local history |
| Old Henderson County Jail | Athens | Henderson | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center | Athens | Henderson | 26,000-gallon aquarium, live shows |
| Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park | Sulphur Springs | Hopkins | Includes local history museum and park with over 11 relocated historic houses, shops and mills |
| Southwest Dairy Museum | Sulphur Springs | Hopkins | Dairy farming and dairy products |
| Houston County Visitor Center And Museum | Crockett | Houston | Varied collection |
| 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 |
| Calaboose Museum | Kirbyville | Jasper | Images and artifacts |
| East Texas Regional Art Center | Jasper | Jasper | 6-8 exhibitions per year |
| Jasper County Historical Museum | Jasper | Jasper | Weaponry collection dating back to the Texas Revolution |
| Art Museum of Southeast Texas | Beaumont | Jefferson | Art collection that spans three centuries |
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Babe Didrikson Zaharia was born in Port Arthur |
| Beaumont Art League | Beaumont | Jefferson | Brown Gallery and the Scurlock Gallery |
| Beaumont Children's Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Inside the Beaumont Civic Center |
| Beaumont Police Department Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Weaponry and memorabilia |
| Chambers Historical House Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Historic house |
| Clifton Steamboat Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | |
| Dishman Art Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Part of Lamar University |
| Dutch Windmill Museum | Nederland | Jefferson | Multiple exhibits about area cultural history |
| Edison Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | All about Thomas Edison and his inventions |
| Fire Museum of Texas | Beaumont | Jefferson | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| John Jay French House | Beaumont | Jefferson | Oldest house in Beaumont, built in 1845 |
| La Maison Acadienne | Nederland | Jefferson | Replica of early Acadian homes in South Louisiana, with local French heritage displays |
| La Maison Beausoleil | Port Neches | Jefferson | Built 1810 in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana |
| McFaddin-Ward House | Beaumont | Jefferson | Listed on the National Register of Historical Places |
| Museum of the Gulf Coast | Port Arthur | Jefferson | Heritage of the Gulf Coast |
| Pompeiian Villa | Port Arthur | Jefferson | Replica of a 79 A.D Pompeiian villa . National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas historic Landmark |
| Rose Hill Manor | Port Arthur | Jefferson | Listed on the National Register of Historical Places |
| 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 |
| Texas Artist Museum | Port Arthur | Jefferson | Working museum for area artists |
| Texas Energy Museum | Beaumont | Jefferson | Texas oil industry and oil discovery science |
| 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 |
| Vuylsteke Dutch Home | Port Arthur | Jefferson | Early 20th-century (1905) Dutch colonial home owned by Lamar State College–Port Arthur. |
| Lamar County Historical Museum | Paris | Lamar | |
| Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site | Paris | Lamar | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center | Paris | Lamar | |
| Jefferson Historical Society Museum | Jefferson | Marion | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Lafayette Street Vintage Vehicles Car Museum | Jefferson | Marion | Vintage and antique cars from the 1920s through the 1950s |
| Epperson-McNutt House | Jefferson | Marion | aka House of the Seasons, listed on NRHP in Marion County, 1870s period Greek Revival house |
| Museum of Measurement and Time | Jefferson | Marion | Horology Measurement Mathematics, from the collection of Johnny and Edith Ingram |
| 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 |
| Durst-Taylor Historic House and Gardens | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Mid-19th-century period house |
| Millard's Crossing Historic Village | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. 19th and early 20th-century village on 37 acres |
| Nacogdoches Fire Department Museum | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Built in 1996 |
| Nacogdoches Railroad Depot Museum | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Railroad |
| Old Stone Fort Museum | 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 |
| Old University Building | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Sterne-Hoya House Museum and Library | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, mid 19th-century house associated with Davy Crockett and Sam Houston |
| Stephen F. Austin State University Galleries | Nacogdoches | Nacogdoches | Multiple on campus galleries |
| Newton County Historical Center and Museum | Newton | Newton | Local archives, archaeology, history and artifacts |
| 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 |
| Orangefield Cormier Museum | Orange | Orange | Conceived by oilman Paul Cormier to depict life in a small town |
| Bridge City Historical Museum | Bridge City | Orange | |
| Heritage House Museum | Orange | Orange | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Stark Museum of Art | Orange | Orange | American Western and Native American art and artifacts |
| W. H. Stark House | Orange | Orange | National Register of Historic Places 1920s period house |
| Panola County Heritage Museum and Texas Tea Room | Carthage | Panola | |
| 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 |
| Texas Country Music Hall of Fame | Carthage | Panola | Texas country music singers, songwriters, disc jockeys, etc. |
| Johnson's Rock Shop and Museum | Livingston | Polk | Rocks, crystals and fossils |
| Polk County Memorial Museum | Livingston | Polk | Exhibits include prehistory, Native Americans, pioneers, industry, agriculture, businesses, culture |
| Emory Heritage Park | Emory | Rains County | |
| Lennox Home | Clarksville | Red River | Operated by the Red River County Historical Society. Queen Anne-style 1897 home |
| Red River County Old Jail Museum | Clarksville | Red River | Completed in 1889, architects Maj. S. B. Haggart and Marshall Sanguinet |
| Depot Museum | Henderson | Rusk | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, aka Rusk County Depot Museum Complex |
| Gaston Museum | Joinerville | Rusk | Life in the East Texas Oil Field from the 1930s through 1960s |
| 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. |
| London Museum | New London | Rusk | History and artifacts of the 1937 New London School explosion, which killed approximately 298 people |
| 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 |
| 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. Crew of the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster: Americans commander Rick Husband, pilot William C. McCool, mission specialists Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon of Israel. During the recovery of the bodies, helicopter pilot Jules “Buzz” Mier Jr. and Texas Forest Service employee Charles Kreneck also lost their lives |
| Sabine County Jail Museum and Vergie Speights Memorial Library | Hemphill | Sabine | |
| Ezekiel Cullen House | San Augustine | San Augustine | Mid 19th-century house, operated by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas |
| 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 |
| San Jacinto County Museum and Old Jail | Coldspring | San Jacinto | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places |
| Camp Ford Historic Park, C.S.A. | Tyler | Smith | |
| Carnegie History Center | Tyler | Smith | |
| Center for Earth and Space Science Education | Tyler | Smith | On the campus of Tyler Junior College |
| Cotton Belt Depot Museum | Tyler | Smith | Deeded to the city of Tyler by the Southern Pacific Rail Road |
| Dewberry Plantation | Tyler | Smith | The life of Col. John Dewberry |
| Discovery Science Place | Tyler | Smith | For kids of all ages |
| Goodman–LeGrand House | Tyler | Smith | National Register of Historic Places |
| Historic Aviation Memorial Museum | Tyler | Smith | Oral histories, memorabilia and aircraft |
| Tyler Museum of Art | Tyler | Smith | Over a thousand works of art |
| Tyler Rose Museum | Tyler | Smith | History and memorabilia of the Texas Rose Festival |
| Whitaker-McClendon House | Tyler | Smith | National Register of Historic Places. Eastlake Bracketed Victorian period estate |
| Trinity County Museum and Hensley Genealogical and Historical Research Center | Groveton | Trinity | |
| 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 |
| Colmesneil House | Colmesneil | Tyler | Built in 1880 by W.T. Colmesneil |
| Heritage Village | Woodville | Tyler | Replicated pioneer structures |
| Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum | Gilmer | Upshur | |
| Historic Upshur Museum | Gilmer | Upshur | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| Literary Museum in Gilmer | Gilmer | Upshur | Global memorabilia from the Larry W. Osborne collection |
| Blackwell House Museum | Canton | Van Zandt County | Built in 1886 |
| Canton Plaza Museum | Canton | Van Zandt County | |
| The Salt Palace | Grand Saline | Van Zandt County | Constructed entirely of salt, as the entire town is built atop an underground salt lode. |
| Heritage Park Museum of East Texas | Edgewood | Van Zandt County | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| Van Area Oil & Historical Museum | Van | Van Zandt County | |
| Van Zandt County Veterans Memorial and Visitors Center | Canton | Van Zandt County | |
| Wills Point Depot Museum | Wills Point | Van Zandt County | Artifacts, documents and photos |
| Gibbs-Powell House Museum | Huntsville | Walker | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
| H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum of Texas | Huntsville | Walker | |
| Sam Houston Memorial Museum | Huntsville | Walker | Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Place |
| 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 |
| Texas Prison Museum | Huntsville | Walker | The museum has on display the Old Sparky electric chair used for executions |
| Alba Public Library and Museum | Alba | Wood | |
| East Texas African American Museum | Hawkins | Wood | Founded in 2016, spearheaded by Gloria Washington, Clarence Shackleford and Tyler pastor Steven Cofe |
| Mineola Historical Museum | Mineola | Wood | National Register of Historic Places |
| Mineola Railroad Museum | Mineola | Wood | See: Mineola station (Texas) |

## Defunct museums

* Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum, Quitman, all things related to the Light Crust Doughboys, opened 2005, closed 2011