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Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
- Location & Contact Information
- Address: 2503 4th Ave Canyon TX USA
- Telephone Number: +1-806-651-2244
- Official Website: [1]
- Overview
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is a history museum on the campus of USA. , a small city south of Amarillo . The museums contents are owned and controlled by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, while West Texas A;M University and the Native American art and artifacts, firearms, antique vehicles, decorative arts and furniture, petroleum industry artifacts, sports artifacts, and textiles. The museum also features the outdoor Pioneer Town that includes a livery, saloon, schoolhouse, pioneer cabin and other buildings. Pioneer TownThe south entrance of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society was founded in 1921 by faculty and students of West Texas State Teachers College and area supporters to preserve the history of pioneer life and natural history in the West Texas region. The museum opened its permanent and present location on April 14, 1933. The noted historian Angie Debo served as curator of the museum in 1933-1934.The museum underwent a $5.8 million USD renovation in 2001. The renovation included having the museums entire collection accessible via the Internet. Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum also is one of the few museums in Texas that offers podcasts about current and upcoming special exhibits.Some of the permanent exhibits include People of the Plains: Experiments in Living, displays the difference and similarities of past and present Southern Plains settlers; Pioneer Town, a recreation of a small settlement in the Texas Panhandle in the early 1900s; The Don D. Harrington Petroleum Wing, a two floor exhibit showing the Texas Panhandles oil boom years in the 1920s and 1930s; and The T-Anchor Ranch House, an exhibit outside of the museum which recreates the original house that was constructed in the late 1870s.From 1951 until his death in 1963, Western artist Harold Dow Bugbee was curator of the museum. In 1990, the museum opened a replica of Bugbees art studio. On the death of Olive Vandruff Bugbee in 2003, the museum inherited the couples $1 million estate. The museum also houses much of the western art collection of Frank Reaugh (1860-1945), who stressed pastoral harmony in nature in his paintings.220px|Statue of legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight outside the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon . Georgia OKeeffe in Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo and Canyon 220px|Chuckwagon exhibit at Panhandle-Plains Museum 220px|Campfire biscuits at the Panhandle-Plains Museum 220px|A 1920s vehicle is parked outside a motel at the Panhandle-Plains Museum. 220px|Turn-of-the-century bicycle at Panhandle-Plains Museum [1]
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