Route 66 Historical Village is an open-air museum highlighting Tulsa’s oil, refining and transportation history. The Visitor’s Center replicates a 1920s Phillips 66 gas station, and the museum is also home to the tallest oil derrick in North America, a Pullman passenger car commissioned in 1929 and Frisco 4500, a 4-8-4 steam engine that pulled the the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway’s Meteor passenger train. In 1901, oil was discovered on former Creek land, which led to Tulsa becoming known as the “Oil Capital of the World,” and the derrick sits on the southeast corner of the Sue Bland No. 1 oil lease. The Route 66 Village was created as part of a partnership called Vision 2025, which, in part, aims to rebuild the Historic Route 66 Highway, through Tulsa County.
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The Royal Ontario Museum is part art, part natural history and part world culture museum. The museum, founded in 1914, is home to more than 13 million artifacts, including dinosaur fossils and works of art. The items are displayed in 40 galleries and exhibition spaces. The museum is one of the most visited in North America.
The Ruth Paine House Museum opened on November 6, 2013. The city of Irving purchased Ruth Paine’s small suburban home in 2009 to preserve the home’s history surrounding the tragedy. Half a century later, the historic home was restored to its 1963 look and transformed into a multimedia museum to interpret what happened in November 1963. On November 21, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald went to the house for an overnight visit with his wife and kids, who had been living with Paine. This was unusual as Oswald usually visited on the weekends. Video images projected onto glass panes depict actors re-creating certain moments, such as when Paine was shocked to hear Marina tell a police officer that her husband owned a gun. Paine lived in the house until 1966 and now resides in California.
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The Savannah History Museum, housed in the former Central of Georgia Depot, chronicles the history of Savannah from 1733 to modern times. Among the 40,000 artifacts housed in the museum is the bench from the movie Forrest Gump, information about Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts and a steam locomotive from the early 20th century. The railroad used the building until 1972, and the Coastal Heritage Society opened the museum in 1989.
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Savonet Museum is located in the former plantation house of the Savonet Plantation and situated inside Christoffelpark National Park. The museum provides visitors with a look at plantation life on the island of Curaçao.
The Settlement to City Museums is a collection of four museums that tell the story of Grapevine. They are the Keeling House Museum, the Donald Schoolhouse, the Cotton Ginners Museum and the Grapevine Historical Museum located in the Grapevine Ice House.
The Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library is an independent, non-profit organization honoring “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s career and legacy. The research, collection, and display of original artifacts, photos, and countless books provide context for Jackson’s career. In addition to dispelling myths and educating the public about Jackson’s life and career, its mission is to be an active, contributing member of the local community, continuing to grow the game of baseball.
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Since it officially opened on April 25, 1999, the Smyrna Museum has dedicated to keeping alive the stories that make the Jonquil City unique — from images of the city’s past to artifacts from important events in history.
Located in a replica of the city’s railroad depot that was build in 1910 and razed in 1959, the museum is home to thousands of photographs, a number of exhibits and other displays, the museum is also home to a number of genealogical research materials.
While admission is free, the museum, which is operated by volunteers, does accept donations.
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