Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum
Established | April 14, 1933 |
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Location | 2503 4th Avenue Canyon, Texas 79015 |
Coordinates | 34°58′48″N 101°55′1″W / 34.98000°N 101.91694°W |
Visitors | 55,000 (2021) |
Founder | Panhandle-Plains Historical Society |
Director | Andrew Hay |
Curator | Deana Craighead Jenni Opalinski Veronica Arias |
Website | panhandleplains |
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum located on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, United States, a small city south of Amarillo. The museum's contents are owned and controlled by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, while West Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University Board of Regents maintain and provide the facilities. Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is the largest history museum in the state of Texas with 70,000 visitors annually and more than three million artifacts.
The museum's permanent exhibits include
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society was founded in 1921 by faculty and students of West Texas State Teachers College and area supporters to preserve the history of pioneer life and natural history in the West Texas region. The museum received financial assistance from the Commission of Control for the 1936 Texas Centennial.[2] The museum opened its permanent and present location on April 14, 1933.[3]
The noted historian Angie Debo served as curator of the museum from 1933 to 1934.[4]
In 2001, the museum underwent a $5.8 million renovation.
Some of the permanent exhibits include "People of the Plains: Experiments in Living", displays the difference and similarities of past and present Southern Plains settlers; "Pioneer Town", a recreation of a small settlement in the
Gallery
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Statue of legendarycattleman Charles Goodnight
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Chuckwagon exhibit
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A 1920s vehicle
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Turn-of-the-century bicycle
See also
References
- ^ Pioneer Town Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "TEXAS CENTENNIAL". The Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ Lester Fields Sheffy, The Life and Times of Timothy Dwight Hobart, 1855–1935: Colonization of West Texas (Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1950), p. 283.
- ^ "Angie Debo Papers: Biography -- SCUA -- OSU Library". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum from the Handbook of Texas Online.
- Texas A&M University System. "Panhandle Plains Historical Museum: Still the state's largest". Archived from the original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
External links
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum official website
- The Harringtons
- Virtual tour of the Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture
- Media related to Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum at Wikimedia Commons