| Texas Musical Drama | Palo Duro Canyon | Panhandle Plains Historical Museum |
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PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM Visit the website for the Museum at www.panhandleplains.org The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is the largest history museum in Texas. Stories of courage, of hardship, of victory and defeat...stories of life are told through a variety of interpretive exhibits. Having completed a $6 million renovation project in August 2001, the Museum has added even more magic and drama to the stories of the Southern Great Plains. Beginning with the restoration of Pioneer Hall to its original art deco grandeur, visitors embark on a friendly and informative orientation space that serves as an introduction to the Museum itself and a gateway to the history of the Panhandle region. With over 3 million artifacts in the collection, the Museum's exhibit areas include petroleum, western heritage, paleontology, textiles, furniture and decorative art, transportation and fine art. Additionally, an imaginative new hands on exhibit, People of the Plains: Experiments in Living, illustrates the similarities of various groups of people living on the Southern Plains during the past 14,000 years. This state of the art exhibit compares and contrasts the various ways different cultures have solved their needs for water, food, shelter, clothing, trade and transportation from pre-historic creatures to modern day cowboys. |