List of petroleum and gas museums explained

This is a list of petroleum, gas, and related museums around the world.

Asia

• Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre, Al-Qurum
• Petroleum Museum, Malaysia
• Taiwan Oil Field Exhibition Hall, Taiwan
• KOC Ahmed Al Jaber Oil and Gas Exhibition, Kuwait
• Digboi Oil Centenary Museum, Digboi, Assam, India
• Petroleum Museums And Documents Center, Tehran, Iran

Europe

• Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist, Twist, Germany
• Erdölmuseum Osterwald, Osterwald, Germany
• German Oil Museum, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Muzeul Național al Petrolului, Ploiesti, Romania
• Musée du pétrole de Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, France
• Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Stavanger, Norway
• Engelsbergs Oljefabrik, Ängelsberg, Sweden
• Technopolis (Gazi), Athens, Greece
• GASmuseet, The Danish GAS Museum, Hobro, Denmark
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz Oil and Gas Industry Museum, Bobrka, Poland
• Warsaw Gasworks Museum, Warsaw, Poland
• Project Parco Museo del Petrolio Vallezza, Fornovo di Taro (Parma), Italy
• Fisogni Museum, Tradate (Varese), Italy (largest gas pumps and petroliana collection, certified by Guinness World Records^[1])
• Museum of Oil Mining and geology, Hodonín, Czech republic
• Magyar Olajipari Múzeum, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

United Kingdom

• Dukes Wood Oil Museum, Nottinghamshire
• Flame: the Gasworks Museum of Ireland (formerly Carrickfergus Gas Works Museum), Belfast
• Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry, Livingston
• National Gas Museum, Leicester

North America

Canada

• Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre, Leduc, Alberta
• Cold Lake Museums, Cold Lake, Alberta
• Oil Museum of Canada, Oil Springs, Ontario; situated within the First Commercial Oil Fields National Historic Site of Canada

United States

California

• Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum, Vista, California
• West Kern Oil Museum, Taft, California
• Olinda Oil Museum & Trail, Brea, California
• Hathaway Ranch Museum, Santa Fe Springs, California
• California Oil Museum, Santa Paula, California

Louisiana

• International Petroleum Museum, Morgan City, Louisiana
• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum, Oil City

Oklahoma

• Healdton Oil Museum, Healdton, Oklahoma
• Phillips 66 Museum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

• Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania
• Penn-Brad Oil Museum, Bradford, PA
• Pithole Museum, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania

Texas

• Central Texas Oil Patch Museum, Luling, Texas
• East Texas Oil Museum, Kilgore, Texas
• Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, Galveston, Texas
• Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland, Texas
• Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, Beaumont, Texas
• Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont, Texas

Other states

• Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, Smackover, Arkansas
• Northwoods Petroleum Museum, Three Lakes, Wisconsin
• Past Gas & Ancient Oils Museum, Sumner, Maine
• Oil and Gas Museum, Parkersburg, West Virginia
• General Petroleum Museum, Seattle, Washington (1980s-2003)^[2]
• Kansas Oil Museum, El Dorado, Kansas

Oceania

• Dunedin Gasworks Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Gasworks, Brisbane, Australia

South America

• Museo Nacional del Petróleo, Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina
• Museo del Petróleo Samuel Schneider Uribe, Barrancabermeja, Santander, Colombia

Other

• National Gas Museum Trust, a United Kingdom charitable trust.

Former Museums

• London Gas Museum, UK, definitely closed
• General Petroleum Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA, definitely closed. It is considered the first solely petroliana museum ^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Museo Fisogni, la più grande collezione di pompe di benzina del mondo apre nelle Giornate FAI. 22 March 2017 .
2. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Petroliana-museum-is-now-a-mere-memory-1110270.php Petroliana Museum Is Now a Mere Memory
3. Book: Cole, Lance . Classic Car Museum Guide: Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Machinery . 2020-09-19 . Pen and Sword Transport . 978-1-5267-3590-4 . en.