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Permian Basin Petroleum Museum

The museums variety of collections, exhibits and interpretation of the oil industry make it an outstanding visitor site. Historical highlights include thousand-year-old reed mats and woven fiber articles from the area's prehistoric population; superb historical paintings; cowboy tack and early railroad artifacts. Petroleum exhibits include great historic photos of early boom-town activities; fascinating well-drilling techniques in paintings, models, and hardware; three dimensional models of oil strata; geological AV shows and the story of oil formation; actual oil well cores from deep underground. This museum also features the largest collection in the nation of Tom Lovell works.

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Location: 1500 I-20 West, Midland Texas Telephone 915-683-4403

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