Oil? Who needs Oil?....Midland, TX
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
So we've only been on the road for 9 days now and we've seen a lot, but I must say I think the petroleum museum has to be the highlight of our trip so far. This place was so neat, informative we spent close to 4 hours here wandering around. There was definitely a lot of oil money pumped into this museum it was very well done. When you first walk in there is a room with B/W pictures of all of the donors to this museum. The only two we recognized were the 2 Bushes. The coolest part of the museum in my opinion (Peggy might think otherwise) was they had a complete wing dedicated to Chaparral Race cars. These cars were awesome and the amazing part is that each one of them are race ready. In fact every couple of months they take them out and run them on the track and then bring them back to the Museum. Lot of history on Chaparral, Bobby Rutherford and Jim Hall. Some hands on exhibits on the aerodynamics of the cars etc.Oh yeah back to the oil. They had several wings dedicated to the history of Texas oil fields, the workers, the vehicles used back in the late 1800's to current. They also had several different types of pumps and oil derricks outside that you could drive too and roam around on.
The had a room dedicated to a mineral collection by Edward Judson. Each Specimen was in a separate plexiglass box that was top lit to show off the mineral and colors. This was pretty cool!!!
They also had a room of Canvas paintings done by several artist's depicting early Oil drilling in Texas.
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