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(Top) 1 Asia 2 Europe 2.1 United Kingdom 3 North America 3.1 Canada 3.2 United States 4 Oceania 5 South America 6 Other 7 Former Museums 8 References

List of petroleum and gas museums

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The Norwegian Petroleum Museum is a civic landmark in Stavanger, Norway. This museum focuses mainly on petroleum exploration and production in the North Sea.

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

Asia[edit]

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[edit]

A photo of Museo Fisogni, in Italy. It's the largest collection in the world, certified by Guinness World Record

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[edit]

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[edit]

Canada[edit]

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[edit]

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

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[edit]

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

South America[edit]

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

Other[edit]

National Gas Museum Trust, a United Kingdom charitable trust.

Former Museums[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ "Museo Fisogni, la più grande collezione di pompe di benzina del mondo apre nelle Giornate FAI". 22 March 2017.

^ Petroliana Museum Is Now a Mere Memory. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 20, 2003.

^ Cole, Lance (2020-09-19). Classic Car Museum Guide: Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Machinery. Pen and Sword Transport. ISBN 978-1-5267-3590-4.

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