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With more than 2 dozen museums, Southeast Texas has a lot to excite the curious. From the famed Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur that highlights history and culture of the area to the world renowned Stark Museum in Orange with its impressive art collection, you will find more than enough fill you senses and your memories. Southeast Texas's historical homes will send you back to another era where you can dream of opulence or feel the power of former statesmen. Be sure to catch the elegance of the Stark Home in Orange and the McFaddin Ward Home in Beaumont. And stop through Liberty and Woodville to catch a feel for what it was like to be a governor of the state in earlier eras.
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum
Big Thicket Museum Calaboose Museum Chambers County Museum Clifton Steamboat Museum Bridge City Historical Museum Edison Plaza Museum Fire Museum of Texas Heritage Village Museum Ice House Museum Melody Maids Museum Museum of the Gulf Coast Newton Historical Commission Museum Pelt Pond Rural Life Museum Police Department Museum Sawmill Town USA Spindletop/Gladys City Boomtown Tex Ritter Museum Texas Energy Museum Wallisville Heritage Park Windmill Museum of Texas Winnie Agricultural Museum |
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Heritage Village Museum (Woodville) An outstanding collection of displays and artifacts are housed withinthe village offering a unique portrait of pioneer life in the mid to late 1800's. The Tolar Cabin from 1866 has a State of Texas Historical Commission designation. There is an active blacksmith and jeweler on the premises. It is also home of the famousPickett House Restaurant that serves home cooked meals boarding-room style.9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Sunday. South Highway 190 Woodville. 409-283-2272 |
a reproduction of the Spindletop Boomtown from near
the turn of the century. 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday- Sunday.
Closed Monday and holidays. Adults $2.50. Children, Senior
Citizens (60+) $1.25 . 409-835-0823 |
Traditional exhibits feature natural, geological, and cultural history of Gulf Coast region. Exhibits on area's entertainment and sportslegacies including Janis Joplin, Big Bopper, George Jones, Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, Jimmy Johnson, and Bum Phillips are onhand as well as art by internationally acclaimed Robert Rauschenberg, Janis Joplin and other S.E. Texas music and sports legends featured along with displays, photos and artifacts for prehistoric, pirates, civil war, oil discovery & production, maritime and other local items of interest. Open 7 days a week. 409-982-7000. Proctor Street Downtown Port Arthur. |
Offers an unforgettable learning experience for both
children and adults through 600 Main, Downtown Beaumont |
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum Documents the multitude of awards, records, and achievements throughout the life and times of the world's greatest athlete, Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The Museum also houses a full service Visitor Center, providing tourist information and fun literature of the area and Texas attractions. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5.p.m. Monday - Sunday, closed Christmas only. Free. 1750 Interstate10 East, Exit 854, Beaumont. 409-833-4622 |
Backwoods memorabilia from butter molds to logging tools, pioneer artifacts and documents, 19th Century log cabin, interpretive material on Big Thicket flora and fauna. Tuesday -Saturday 9 a.m.- 5p.m.; Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Small group tours, environmental education school programs and guided canoe trips on Village Creek by advance arrangements. 409-274-5000. Admission. |
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Clifton Steamboat Museum 24,000 sq.-ft.-facility with exhibits representing the Battle of San Jacinto, the Republic of Texas and its statehood, the Civil War in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, the Steamboat Era, World Wars I & II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War. The museum's theme is Heroes...Past, Present and Future" and honors military and civilian heroes. Features of the complex include the tugboat Hercules, the Hercules Club, Moresi's Foundry, O'Hearn's, Restaurant, and See-Max Theater. Open 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. 8727 Fannett Road (Hwy 124), near Hwy 364 (Major Dr), Beaumont 409-842-3162 From Beaumont, head West on IH-10. Exit past Tinseltown
@ #845. Take a Left at Stop, go over IH-10. Next Stop @ Hwy 124 Take
a Right. Half a mile, on the left - across from a Rice Dryer. Closed
for some Holidays. Special Group of 40 - Prices. Buses Welcome. |
Edison Museum Thorough exhibits and displays of artifacts, the museum communicate the contributions of the electrical industry that resulted from the genius of Thomas Alva Edison and other noted inventors. An electrical substation of 1929 has been carefully restored to house the museum. Museum hours are Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday thru Friday. The tour takes one hour. 350 Pine Street, |
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The Bridge City Historical Museum Former Prairie View Teacherage is a seven room "teacherage" built in1930 that was originally home to the school principal and family and two single school teachers. At that time school teachers were not allowed to be married. The home has been maintained since that time by the Prairie View then Bridge City School District and was donated to the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce in 1995. After the building was moved some nine blocks for renovation, the teacherage became home for the Chamber office and first city museum. Bridge City |
Next to the "World's Largest Fire Hydrant." The spotted hydrant was created by the Disney Company for the re-release of 100 Dalmations. The Fire Museum: Walk into an early 20th Century Fire Hall and explore all aspects of the early and modern Fire Departments. Experience a collection of historic fire department equipment, machinery, and memorabilia with seven major fire fighting units on display to represent the year 1779 to present day. Museum hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free admission, donation accepted. 400 Walnut, Downtown Beaumont - (Take the Beaumont I-10 Downtown exit, turn left at Calder, left at Mulberry) 409-880-3927 |
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Police Department Museum The Police Department proudly onverteda former jail to house various confiscated drugs and drug paraphernalia, llegal weapons and historical artifacts of the department. One particular item is a uniform of an officer who was shot in the chest, saved because the bullet hit the wallet he was carrying in his left shirt pocket. Museum hours are 8-5 Monday - Friday. 255 College, Downtown Beaumont 409-880-3825. |
Ice House Museum This museum has a historical genealogical society which is also located here. designation from the State of Texas. It regularly features art shows for local artists. Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Monday-Frriday),1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Saturday-Sunday) Admission: Free. 818 Ernest Ave. Silsbee, Texas (409)385-2444 |
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Exhibits inside feature famous hometown country and western singer Tex Ritter and a gift shop with imported items from Holland. 1500 Boston Ave., Nederland For information contact the Nederland Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 891, Nederland 409-722-0279 |
Pelt Pond Rural Life Museum Located in a beautiful rural setting, the Rural Life Museum features a varied and unique collection of folk art paintings, artifacts, farm animals and other items of rural interest. It also has a gift shop. Rt.1 Box 836 Kountze, TX |
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Newton County Historical Commission Museum The Newton County History Center houses over 920 artifacts. The museum receives donations of artifacts that have a direct relationship to Newton County history. NCHC History Center |
Tex Ritter Museum 1500 Boston Ave, Nederland For information contact the Nederland Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 891, Nederland 409-722-0279 |
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Melody Maids Museum This museum exhibits memorabilia that depicts 30 years of world travels and an un-numbered amount of performance by the Melody Maids. Hours are during theatre performance and by appointment. 765 Pearl-Julie Rogers Theatre, Downtown Beaumont- 409-898-7417 |
Calaboose Museum- Arifacts, information, and history of local significance. Housed in an old jail house built in 1910. Under the direction of the Kirbyville Area Heritage Society. Open Wed. - Fri. 10 a.m.p.m. At Elizabeth and Lavielle Street Kirbyville |
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Chambers County Museum - General history; exhibits of local and pioneer history, archeology.Open Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Courthouse Annex. Anahuac |
Sawmill Town USA Replica of an old western town. Live entertainment on weekends, concerts, saloon, gift shop, cabins for overnight stays. RV hook-ups, hot tub, showers. U.S.190 West, Newton. 379-3851. |
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Displays and artifacts of Spanish Mission Nuestra Senora de la Luz and Presido San Augustin de Ahumada (1756-1771), including vintage saddle-making tools, hardware, and area history. Adjacent, a restored 1869 school contains a genealogical/history library. Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Located 13 miles east on I-10 at the Trinity River, Exit #807 (Wallisville Exit). |
Winnie Agricultural Historical Museum Located behind the Texas Rice Festival/Chamber Of Commerce offices on LeBlanc Road, the museum houses authentic antique tractors, farming equipment, photos and the airplane that planted the first aerially-seeded rice crop in Texas. In addition, the Winnie Santa Fe Depot, which was established in 1905, has been relocated along side the Agricultural Historical Museum. Open for tours by appointments - (409) 296-2231 |
multimedia
techniques that include rig sounds, motion, light, cinema projection,
voice, and photo-mural backgrounds. Spectacular exhibits deal with the
geology of hydrocarbons and the history of the petroleum industry within
a total energy picture. Tuesday -Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and 1 p.m. through 5 p.m. Sunday. Admistion $2 adults, senior citizensand
children 6-12 are $1.25. Free to school groups and Lamar students
with an id. 409-833-5100. 