
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum
About Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum
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 has been closed since March 2025 after a Texas State Fire Marshal inspection identified significant life-safety concerns in the nearly century-old building.
The museum's permanent exhibits include American Western life and agriculture history artifacts, art, paleontology, geology, Native American art and artifacts, firearms, antique vehicles, decorative arts and furniture, petroleum industry artifacts, sports artifacts, and textiles. The museum also features the outdoor Pioneer Town that includes a livery, saloon, schoolhouse, pioneer cabin and other buildings.
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- Founded
- 1933
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03Bugbee studioBilly Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
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05XIT Ranch chuck wagon, Panhandle Plains Historical MuseumPi3.124 · CC BY-SA 4.0
06Charles Goodnight items, Panhandle-Plains Historical MuseumPi3.124 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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