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

Asia

Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre Oman Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre is a museum, located on Seih Al Maleh Street, Al-Qurum, Muscat, Oman. The museum was established 1995 as a donation from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). The museum is an interactive journey exploring the disco ...

, 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

Europe

Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist The Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist in Twist, Germany is a museum for crude oil and natural gas and shows technical equipment for mineral exploration of these natural energy resources and gives information about their geological origin. History In 19 ...

, Twist, Germany *

German Oil Museum The German Oil Museum (german: Deutsches Erdölmuseum Wietze) or German Crude Oil Museum is located in Wietze, a small village west of Celle in Lower Saxony. Description The exhibitions in the museum's buildings use a combination of text, diag ...

, Lower Saxony, Germany * Muzeul Național al Petrolului, Ploiesti, Romania * Musée du pétrole de Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, France *

Norwegian Petroleum Museum The Norwegian Petroleum Museum (''Norsk Oljemuseum'') is located in Stavanger, Norway. Overview It was designed by the architectural firm of Lunde & Løvseth Arkitekter A/S and was opened on 20 May 1999. Seen from the sea the museum looks like a ...

, Stavanger, Norway
Engelsbergs Oljefabrik
Ängelsberg, Sweden *

Technopolis (Gazi) Technopolis (Gazi) is an industrial museum and a major cultural venue of the City of Athens, Greece, in the neighborhood of Gazi, next to Keramikos and very close to the Acropolis. It is dedicated to the memory of the great Greek composer Manos Ha ...

, 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 The Fisogni Museum of the petrol station (in the past also SIRM Museum or Ormad Valseveso Museum), in Tradate, Italy, is a museum about gas pumps, Filling station, gas stations and petroliana, founded by Guido Fisogni in 1966. With its 8000 piec ...

, Tradate (Varese), Italy (largest gas pumps and petroliana collection, certified by

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Museum of Oil Mining and geology
Hodonín, Czech republic * Magyar Olajipari Múzeum, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

United Kingdom

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

Canada

* Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre, Leduc, Alberta * Cold Lake Museums, Cold Lake, Alberta *

Oil Museum of Canada The Oil Museum of Canada, is a petroleum heritage museum in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858. The museum's property, and the la ...

, Oil Springs, Ontario; situated within the First Commercial Oil Fields

National Historic Site of Canada National Historic Sites of Canada (french: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment An environment minister (sometimes minister of the environment or secretary of t ...

United States

California *

Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum (AGSEM) is a living-history museum founded in 1969 located on of county-owned land on the outskirts of Vista, California. The museum is a non-profit 501c(3) organization. It is located at 2040 N Santa Fe Av ...

, Vista, California * West Kern Oil Museum, Taft, California *

Olinda Oil Museum & Trail Olinda () is a historic city in Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Northeast Region. It is located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, the state capital. It has a population of 393,115 people, covers ...

, Brea, California *

Hathaway Ranch Museum The Hathaway Ranch & Oil Museum in Santa Fe Springs, California is a museum of five generations of Hathaway family and Southern California history. The five-acre facility includes hundreds of artifacts and buildings showing the initial usage of th ...

, Santa Fe Springs, California * California Oil Museum, Santa Paula, California Louisiana
International Petroleum Museum

Morgan City, Louisiana Morgan City is a small city in St. Mary and lower St. Martin parishes in the U.S. State of Louisiana. The population was 12,404 at the 2010 census. Known for being “right in the middle of everywhere”, Morgan City is located 68 miles (109&nb ...

Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is border ...

, Oil City Oklahoma
Healdton Oil Museum

Healdton, Oklahoma Healdton is a city in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,788 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma Micropolitan Statistical Area. History A post office was established at Healdton, Indian Territory ...

Phillips 66 Museum Phillips may refer to: Businesses Energy * Chevron Phillips Chemical, American petrochemical firm jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66. * ConocoPhillips, American energy company * Phillips 66, American energy company * Philli ...

, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Pennsylvania *

Drake Well Museum The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum that interprets the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by "Colonel" Edwin Drake along the banks of Oil Creek in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The museu ...

, Titusville, Pennsylvania * Pithole Museum, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania Texas * Central Texas Oil Patch Museum,

Luling, Texas Luling is a city in Caldwell and Guadalupe counties, Texas, United States, along the San Marcos River. The population as of the 2020 census was 5,599. History The town was named after a New York banker, Charles Luling. He was a personal frie ...

East Texas Oil Museum

Kilgore, Texas Kilgore is a city in Gregg and Rusk counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United Sta ...

* Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, Galveston, Texas * Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland, Texas *

Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901. The discovery sparked an oil boom in Texas that continues today. Along ...

Beaumont, Texas Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat, seat of government of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, metropo ...

Texas Energy Museum The Texas Energy Museum is a museum in Beaumont, Texas in the United States. The museum was formed in 1987 to tell the story of oil through state of the art exhibits including talking robotic characters. The museum opened on January 10, 1990, the ...

, Beaumont, Texas Other states *

Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources is a museum and Arkansas state park in Smackover, Arkansas, in the United States. The museum was formed in the 1980s to tell the history of the petroleum industry and later the brine industry as key econ ...

, Smackover, Arkansas *
Northwoods Petroleum Museum
Three Lakes, Wisconsin * Past Gas & Ancient Oils Museum, Sumner, Maine * W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building, Parkersburg, West Virginia * Petroliana Museum,

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

, Washington (1980s-2003)Petroliana Museum Is Now a Mere Memory
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The newspaper was foun ...

'', March 20, 2003.
Kansas Oil Museum
El Dorado, Kansas

Oceania

Dunedin Gasworks Museum Dunedin Gasworks Museum is located in South Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of only a few known preserved gasworks museums in the world. The main part of the museum is housed in the engine house of the former Dunedin Gaswo ...

, Dunedin, New Zealand *

Gasworks A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas. Many of these have been made redundant in the developed world by the use of natural gas, though they are still used for storage space. Early gasworks Coal ...

, Brisbane, Australia

South America

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

Other

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

Former Museums

* London Gas Museum, UK, definitely closed * General Petroleum Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA, definitely closed

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