Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
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The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum is a museum in Midland, Texas, USA, with exhibits relating to the oil and gas industry of the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico. Museum exhibits include the geology of the area during the Permian period, the technology of the petroleum industry, racing cars designed by Jim Hall, and paintings by artist Tom Lovell.
The museum was founded in 1968 by a group of 500 under the leadership of George T. Abell under the Abell-Hangar Foundation, and officially opened its doors to the public in 1975. The museum occupies a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) building, with 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) dedicated to exhibits and an outdoor exhibit space for large oil-field machinery. It is open to the public seven days per week.
The museum maintains a research library containing donated material related to the history of the Permian Basin oil industry. It contains one of the largest collections of archived petroleum-related artifacts in its archives center. It also houses the Petroleum Hall of Fame which includes over 140 men and women who have impacted the Permian Basin's petroleum industry.
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