Best Texas Museums

The Sci-Tech Discovery Center's mission is to provide a dynamic educational experience to inspire all ages to embrace discovery and innovation through the active exploration of science, math, and technology. Read about our fun visit to the Sci-Tech Discovery Center.

The Sid Richardson Museum features permanent and special exhibitions of paintings by the premier Western artists, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The works, reflecting both the romance and reality of the American West, are the legacy of the late oilman and philanthropist, Sid Williams Richardson. The collection also includes works by Oscar E. Berninghaus, Charles F. Browne, Edwin W. Deming, William Gilbert Gaul, Peter Hurd, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh, Peter Moran and Charles Schreyvogel. Admission is free.

If you love videogames from the days of their creation in the 1970s (remember Pong) up until Nintendo and later than you'll love this museum as it steps you through the history of videogames and includes several you can play plus a video arcade with over 40 machines with games like space invaders, donkey kong, pac man and more. Read about our fun visit to the National Videogame Museum.

The new 180,000 square feet $185 million Perot Museum of Nature & Science opened in late 2012 and it is spectacular. Five levels with 11 permanent exhibits with everything from building and programming a small robotic vehicle to 3 D state of the art movies to life size dinosaur skeletons to an earthquake simulation. Great for everyone from 3 to 93 and lots of hands on and digital displays about science and nature.

This 'rolling museum' takes passengers on a journey through the impressive Piney Woods and 135 years of history inside vintage 1920's rail cars pulled by steam or diesel locomotives. Flanked by a Victorian and Iron-Ore depot, each rider is given a glimpse of what it would have been like to catch a train in the golden age of rail travel.
Today, passengers traverse over this historic iron passage, with narration provided throughout the trip giving a glimpse into the legend and lore associated with this scenic railroad of a century in passing.

Two good museums for the price of one. The Witte Museum has historic artifacts and photographs, Texas art, textiles, the world-renowned Hertzberg Circus Collection, dinosaur bones, cave drawings, Texas wildlife dioramas and the four-story H-E-B Science Treehouse. The South Texas Heritage Center tells some stories about cowboys, cattle, chili queens, oil, and outlaws of South Texas.

Discover the fun of science at the Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City! Housed in an 1880s mill, this non-profit science center offers a fun, interactive learning environment for the whole family.

Visit sciencemill.org for more information on hours, special events, field trips and summer camps.

The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History is home to more than 90,00 square feet of exhibits and displays that are unique to Corpus Christi and the surrounding area. You'll get to walk through 500 years of Texas history from shipwrecks of early explorers to decorative arts from historic Corpus families to a children's science center.

International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a Smithsonian Affiliated museum that is regarded as the premiere art and science museum of South Texas.

You can participate in hands-on science exhibits and an interesting and unique playscape, learn about original works of art, and enjoy a number of revolving art and science exhibits each year.

The Museum of South Texas History features exhibits on the history of the Rio Grande Valley, as well as the rest of South Texas and Northern Mexico. You can walk through very well done exhibits starting with the giant prehistoric mosasaur and an ice age mammoth followed by the native indians, the colonization and exploration by the Spanish, the Mexican War and US Civil War, and then the eras of the steamboat, cattle kingdom, and the coming of the railroad followed by south Texas most recent history. Very interesting, well done, and informative.

Since the museum is located in the heart of the beautiful Texas Hill Country they take advantage of the great motorcycling roads all around. They display over 60 wonderful collections of machines from all around the world dating from the 1920's to modern.

 

With 180 cycles spanning 12 decades, from 1901 to the present housed in the Museum and the Dragon Gallery. This is a revival of a cultural phenomenon.  The Haas Collection has no equal anywhere, with its seemingly endless array of truly unique cycles embedded in two venues.