List of petroleum and gas museums

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

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* 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

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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

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* 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

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### Canada

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* 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

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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

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

## South America

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

## Other

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

## Former Museums

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

## References

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1. ^ "Museo Fisogni, la più grande collezione di pompe di benzina del mondo apre nelle Giornate FAI". 22 March 2017.
2. ^ Petroliana Museum Is Now a Mere Memory. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 20, 2003.
3. ^ Cole, Lance (2020-09-19). Classic Car Museum Guide: Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Machinery. Pen and Sword Transport. ISBN 978-1-5267-3590-4.