This City Has More Museums Per Capita Than Any Other City Its Size in Texas.

Nobody talks about this. That is the most Beaumont thing imaginable.

More museums per capita than any other city its size in the entire state of Texas. Not a rumor. Not a tourism slogan. A fact. The kind of cultural infrastructure that cities twice this size spend decades building is already here, on these streets, open to anyone who walks through the door.

Here is what is in this city right now:

Texas Energy Museum  |  Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum  |  Fire Museum of Texas  |  Art Museum of Southeast Texas  |  McFaddin-Ward House Museum  |  Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum  |  Beaumont Children's Museum  |  Clifton Steamboat Museum  |  Edison Museum  |  John Jay French Historic House Museum  |  Dishman Art Museum  |  Beaumont Art League  

|  Beaumont Police Museum  |  and that is not even all of them.

Oil history. World-class art. A legendary female athlete. Steamboats. The inventions of Thomas Edison. This city contains multitudes and most people drive past it every single day without a second thought.

Coming soon right here in the Current: the complete Beaumont museum guide. Until then, pick one from that list you have never been to. Go this weekend. Report back.